“The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she knew, as she slipped along the servants’ corridor, and then up the stairs to the attic to hang her new dress on the rail, just one of the many shadows that ebbed and tugged at the edges of the light.” (53) It’s one thing to tell a new story with the basic plot of Austen’s novels, such as Bridget Jones’s Diary […]
Writers, Publishers, and Murderers
I read the first Cormoran Strike novel for book club. I picked up the second Cormoran Strike novel because I’d already become attached to the characters, and I needed to find out what J.K. Rowling was going to do to with them. The Silkworm (2014) by “Robert Galbraith” follows the continuing story of Cormoran Strike, London private detective, and his assistant Robin. When a dowdy, desperate woman walks into Cormoran’s office looking for her missing, semi-famous, author husband, Cormoran takes her case despite his concerns […]
Vampires, and vampires, and more vampires
I’m now halfway through the Vampire Academy series with Book 3: Shadow Kiss (2008) by Richelle Mead, and I’m hooked. I have to find out what happens, I have to finish this series, and it’s likely going to happen soon. Well, pretty soon. I’ve got some other books to read, too. These books aren’t great literary masterpieces, but they’re fun and entertaining. Even though this last book dragged a bit in the middle, it’s still easy, engaging reading. Mead has created a world where there […]
A woman for a different time
Another day, another Courtney Milan novel. My library can be a little slow in stocking Milan’s latest novels, and then sometimes I forget about them. So, The Countess Conspiracy was published back in 2013, but I’m only getting to it now. The story involves Violet Waterfield, Countess of Cambury and Sebastian Malheur, well-known rake. Violet is a closet scientist, obsessed with plants and their genes, in a time where many dislike Darwin, dislike discussing procreation in public, and where women scientists are nonexistent. Violet’s old […]
Yeah, the criminal justice system doesn’t work that way
Karen Robards is another–original–favorite romance author of mine. I found her ages ago. Sometimes her books can get a little too violent and bloody, but they’re consistently fast-paced and easy to read. I usually enjoy them. So when I saw Hunted (2013) by Karen Robards on bookshelves, I picked it up–at the library (because I’m cheap). Quite often with Robards comes murder and mystery and Hunted is no different. Reed Ware is a New Orleans Homicide Detective and his fated love interest, Caroline Wallace, is […]
Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
I think it’s fitting that I finished my Cannonball this year with another Cormac McCarthy novel. Ever since I discovered McCarthy, I’ve read one book of his per year. His books are amazing but intense, so I take nice long breaks in between. I’d been waiting to read No Country for Old Men (2006) because I’d seen the movie when it first came out, and I wasn’t sure how I felt about reading a McCarthy novel where I already knew what was going to happen. […]
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