I probably shouldn’t have liked this as much as I did. The plot was silly, the characters have turned into caricatures, and since it takes place BEFORE the last book that I read in the series, there wasn’t much suspense. But dammit, Jones, I do love you. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Bridget sleeps with Mark & Daniel within the […]
Well, it was worth the quarter I paid for it…maybe
I bought this book at a garage sale for twenty-five cents, then forgot I owned it for 3 years. I rediscovered it last week while looking for something mindless to read, and it definitely fit the bill! Eve and her two sisters have a senile, sex-addicted father and a mother who disappeared years ago. Eve deals mostly with the father, as her older sister’s a high-powered magazine executive, and the younger sister is a flake. The whole book, as you may have guessed, consists of […]
“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
This was pretty good. Not as good as A Man Called Ove, but still pretty good. “People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just […]
“She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books.”
This book was a lot of fun, if not quite as good as I expected. I think a lot of that is due to it being consumed by world-building, as the first book of a series, so I’m eager to see if the second one improves on that as far as plot goes. “And she didn’t want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were […]
The One Where All My Favorite Characters Show Up
This might be one of my absolute favorites from the series. It’s a very long book, and like all of the others it’s probably longer than it needs to be, but I love it anyway. There’s a lot of people just barely missing each other and little misunderstandings that blow up into crazy situations. You know, that sort of nonsense that rarely happens in real life but seems to work in historical romance novels. So this book picks up in the Americas, where Jamie and […]
TFWOTSC & The Notorious RBG
This was a very long, meticulously researched account of how Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg reached the Supreme Court, and what they did during their tenures. It discusses specific court cases and laws, and gets a little dry at times, but overall I found it interesting and informative. Hirshman starts by comparing and contrasting the early lives of these two incredible women, “Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s daughter and Brooklyn girl”, etc. Then she splits into separate histories, showing how they […]
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