Witch Elm? If so, it changes radically after that first third.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Jesse - Jan 09, 2019 10:36:13 am PST #25241 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Jan 09, 2019 11:33:10 am PST #25242 of 28197
hip deep in pie
The Witch Elm was the first one where I felt she really needed more editing, but I think I expect some kind of twist in her books. I'm not sure they're always successful...I didn't love the Broken Harbour, and The Trespasser as much as the others, it was def. the end of the Trespasser that left me a little cold.
Jesse - Jan 09, 2019 11:43:10 am PST #25243 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yes! Same to all of that! OK, glad to know it's not just me then.
Sue - Jan 09, 2019 11:53:04 am PST #25244 of 28197
hip deep in pie
I just noticed last week that her new novel is being released as The Wych Elm in the UK and Ireland. I wonder what else was edited for North America.
Jesse - Jan 09, 2019 12:07:27 pm PST #25245 of 28197
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not "jacks roll," that's for sure. (I figured it out eventually.)
Kat - Jan 09, 2019 3:01:13 pm PST #25246 of 28197
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara,
I've been reading a bunch of the NPR book concierge books. A number of them I'd already read (mostly the romances) but there were a lot I hadn't.
SAME. It's fun that they are coming in a few at at I'm rushing to read them before I have to return them.
I And just got "odd one out", which I really was loving until about the last 5 pages. I didn't like the ending one bit and perhaps not for the reason some might think (anyone else read it?)
So I had written down on a paper a list of titles. And I apparently had Odd One Out wrong and reserved Odd Mom Out, which was weird because it seemed so dated (it mentioned myspace) and it wasn't that good. When I saw my original list, I realized I had it wrong. So I have this Odd One Out on hold, but it hasn't come in yet.
meara - Jan 09, 2019 4:21:16 pm PST #25247 of 28197
Ooh, Kat I'll be interested to hear your thoughts after you read it!!
Another one just came in that I'm looking forward to and hoping will be good, •"book of essie", about a Duggar-like family with a reality tv show whose daughter gets pregnant as an unwed teen.
Kat - Jan 09, 2019 4:33:53 pm PST #25248 of 28197
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Deborah Harkness's new book was at the library for me so that's next.
I read The Nanny and I'd give it a pass. But Kiss Quotient was pretty good.
meara - Jan 09, 2019 6:50:08 pm PST #25249 of 28197
Yeah, I had already read Kiss Quotient and enjoyed it. Looking forward to her next book
meara - Jan 11, 2019 2:55:32 pm PST #25250 of 28197
Read "Book of Essie"—it was slightly different than expected, but I liked it a lot. The main character was maybe a little treacly, and some of it might be a bit of liberal wish fulfillment about a Duggar-like family. But I enjoyed the twists and turns.