I'm reading the series. I kind of skim over that stuff and get to to the story. The writer is actually pretty good about having various strings that come together in a rather neat package.
I'm reading the Phryne Fisher series (first book Cocaine Blues) that's set in Australia and has some similarities to the Maisie Dobbs series. Both set in the same time period (roughly) both women were nurses in WWI, both were born poor but their circumstances changed (in Phyrne's all the male relatives died and her father inheirted a title).
But I will say that Phryne wanders into the Mary Sue territory quite a bit. She's beautiful! She flies planes! She dances! She has a gun! She's fearless! She's fashionable! Men find her super sexy. However the books are a bit shorter than the Maisie Dobbs books and they are fluff but enjoyable fluff.
That's the thing, askye -- I was really interested in Vincent, and the whole wounded soldier storyline, and even in how Maisie got to where she is now, but it was just such a slog.
My mom owns the book, though, so I can always try again at some point.
The Phyrne Fisher series sounds like fun, despite the way her named is spelled. Who's the author? I loved Dianne Day's Fremont Jones mysteries, which were set in San Francisco at the turn of the century. Really readable, a lot of fun.
Kerry Greenwood wrote the Phryne Fisher story. She's supposed to be named for a Greek Courtesan. she was supposed to be named something else but her father was drunk and put down Phryne.
There was an Australian series made, I watched it on Acorn TV (streaming on the Ruku) but it's not on there anymore. The tv series made some big chances to the books, but the series was really good. It's not on Netflix or Hulu but maybe you could find it another way.
Woo hoo!
Episode 2 of
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic: The Thirteenth Rib
is available to download.
Yes! I'm glad they emailed me, so I can stop checking all the time to see if the next one is there.
So, flipping through an old issue of Entertainment Weekly, they did an article featuring the Favorite Books of "Lit Stars". The graphic has a picture like it's a snapshot of their bookshelves, which is how I noticed that of the 13 listed by Stephenie Meyers, I only don't have 3. I feel a little dirty.
She has 13 books?? I thought she just had the four
Twilight
books,
The Host,
and that
Bree Tanner
thing.
Probably a copy or 2 of the Book of Mormon...
...Or wait, are you talking about books she's written?
Anne's House of Dreams is still boring(I bought the whole collection for the kindle recently for a dollar.) I thought I was just being a touchy teen feminist, but she really does spend a lot of this volume being complimented by adorable rustics. It's like Green Gables badfic.(Although being mature and sedate and telling your doctor husband he's awesome are not exactly compelling drama, either.)
