Mal ,'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I read U of the Grafton books and thought it was really good -- far better than the last few.
I read the Stephanie Pkum books, but I take them out of the library after they fall off the hold list and really -- joe is all macho , but he wants a home / family and likes all your gofiness. Ranger might be really sexy, but he uses sex to humiliate/control her.
One for "sentences in old books that make me blink," from Anne of Windy Poplars:
She just loves church work and would be perfectly happy attending Ladies' Aids and Missionary Societies, planning for church suppers and Welcome socials, not to speak of exulting proudly in being the possessor of the finest wandering-jew in town.
(After a bit of googling, I'm pretty sure the "wandering-jew" she means is the plant.)
Even the Jack Reacher books have gotten a little silly I think--I was explaining them to MeganWalker the other day and his whole schtick with not carrying even a bag etc? Yeahhh. I mean at least he supposedly has a bank account and ATM card these days...
Sure, but that's the premise! If you didn't like it in the first one, it doesn't really get worse. And without it, you don't get the scene in the one in Vegas (??) where his crew get their rooms ransacked, and he gets his toothbrush broken. Awesome.
Jesse, have you read 61 Hours yet? The beginning is typical Reacher but the end was pretty exciting. New book in Sept too.
I haven't -- I'm always slow on the uptake, since I won't buy hardcover.
Do you want my copy? I won't reread it but am helpless to resist getting my hands on them when they come out. I usually end up giving them to Goodwill or setting them on the "to be sold" shelf, but it's getting full.
Seriously? I'd love it!
You bet! Shoot me your mailing address and I'll get it off to you. May not be until mid-July because we're leaving for Hawaii on Sunday, but if I can work in the PO before then I will.
Great! I'm number 150-something on the library hold list, so a few weeks is no problem.
I read Killing Floor and I'm sort of lukewarm. Three things really bothered me. I'll give him the massive coincidence the whole thing is based on but then The one FBI contact Finley has is also in on the plot for no apparent reason other than to be a plot twist? Two massive coincidences is hard for me to go with. The way he found Paul on about the first shot seemed completely ridiculous. And I never could make sense of the airport scene.