The GroVant books -- Tim Sandlin.
'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Good suggestions, thanks! Kat, I'm not familiar with those books. What are they about?
I just read the first of the Tearling books. I liked it, despite feeling that it's a bit rote: young woman raised in isolation becomes Queen of her fractious country the day she turns 19, and has to learn to govern despite the threat of revolt and invasion.
It has some predictable bits (like the very annoying way she falls for the very first interesting youngish-man she meets ) but I thought the world-building was interesting and the characters fairly engaging. And I don't entirely know where it's going to go.
Yep, that was about my feeling as well, Consuela. I've been on nothing but fantasy, sci-fi and historical romance this year for pleasure reading (escapist much?), so it worked for me for the mood I was in.
Also, that post earlier led me to admit to myself that I hadn't updated my Goodreads since April. There went my last 90 minutes...
Kate, Skipped Parts is the first and is about a 13 year old boy with a super dysfunctional mom who gets banished by grandpa to Wyoming. There he meets Maury and they experiment on figuring out what the skipped parts of the books are. Funny and sad and a little inappropriate. Set in the '60s.
Open Road Media has made a ton of stuff free at Amazon. Runs for a few days, I think.
Thanks, Dana! I just grabbed a ton of stuff.
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Dana, I grabbed a bunch of books the other day. Thanks for the heads up!
I finished The Likeness by Tana French, and I like it quite a bit. But is the murderer ever going to actually go to jail in this series? I have the next in the series headed to me now.
sj, scrolling past previous messages, I was recently reminded of Val McDermid's books. They can be grim, but they're interesting.
In other news, one of the e-newsletters I receive always has a quote at the bottom. Today's had one from Lois McMaster Bujold: "Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you." Not sure I buy it ... revenge can be sweet, especially when it comes from someone screwing themself over with no effort on my part. Schadenfreude!