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.
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!
I posted on FB, that reading was on my to do list for 2017. Having only read 1.9 books in 2016, I am not setting a crazy goal. THAT SAID. I would love love love if some people or peoples joined me in reading books semi-together and maybe setting up a group for those book(s) to discuss at a set time the contents thereof.
Maybe? Possibly?
Well I am only reading female writers this year (hopefully including some of our own) and I have created a list over at Goodreads of all the female penned books I have not read that are currently owned by me and IN MY HOUSE. It is gonna be about 40 books once I get them all entered. They are a range, like no pattern except the sex of the authors.
So, if this sounds like something you might wanna join me for, even for one book, go - look - message me.
I have not decided on a book for January, BUT LET ME TELL YOU THIS - IT WILL BE AN EASY PEASY NOT HARD NOT TOO LONG VERY NICE BOOK. It might be Jennifer Cruise is what I am saying.
I just sent you a friend request on Goodreads.
