Y’all, I don’t really know where to start with this book. I loved it. And I don’t fully understand what I read? I devoured every word but also had a tough time picking it back up after I’d put it down. It was amazing and I am going to have a very hard time telling you why. I did not know the backstory on this one until I was almost through, but twenty years ago, the author Arundhati Roy broke onto the scene with her […]
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
Saumensch I don’t know how I managed to go so long without reading The Book Thief but it was worth the wait. I thought I would be reading an uplifting story of a young woman who found comfort in the written word while the world crumbled around her but instead I got sucker punched in the feels. While I have some minor quibbles, namely the flash forwarding to the characters’
Long Book is Long
This book covers the longest period of time in all of the Outlander books to date and it was noticeable. Despite going on many side adventures all over North Carolina, the Frasers et al are largely based on their land at Fraser’s Ridge in both this book and the one that proceeded it, The Fiery Cross. Because so much time has been spent on the Ridge, a lot of time is spent with its various inhabitants. They’re often not treated as on-going concerns with true throughlines throughout the […]
Misbehaving with the fiance’s brother
This is the first in a new series The Duke’s Daughters by Ms Frampton, and focuses on Lady Eleanor Howlett who is the eldest of the family. One of her sisters has disgraced the family’s good name and image by running off with the dance instructor (how gauche!) and it’s now up to Eleanor to make a good marriage and restore the family to the good graces of the ton. Her parents have arranged a match with Lord Carson, a perfectly acceptable man with a […]
Romancing the lady next door
It’s been awhile since I read a book by Ms Laurens, after having plowed through the Cynster series and many of it’s related books a few years ago. She’s written many books, and employs a lot of similar plots and characters, much like Nora Roberts does. There’s always the alpha male hero and the spirited heroine and quite a lot of steamy sex. This book is the first in the Bastion Club series, which introduces a group of seven friends who have returned from serving […]
More like cutting my heart….
Oh hello there. Well CBR9 was a bit of a bust for me, in that life got crazy and I read exactly one book in Nov/Dec. ugh. But let’s give it a go again! I’m starting off this year with a book club pick, Cutting For Stone…and yeah, it was great. After an unfortunate reading hiatus, and a crazy holiday, this was a great book to get lost in. Marion & Shiva are identical twins born to a nun in Ethiopia at the missionary hospital […]
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