cereal...
By the way, speaking of Cruisie, read her
Crazy for You
and was surprised
by how dark the whole ex-boyfriend stalker plot got. Not what I expected from the description on the back cover! But pretty good stuff
.
I've been looking to pick up another Cruisie, but have been surprised that my local Borders (easily accessible at lunchtime!) has NO Cruisie books. How odd! I did read the Nora Roberts "Key" trilogy (am just finishing the last one now) and feel fairly satisfied with it, although hopefully the ending won't disappoint. :)
I've never seen the movie version of The Godfather. Is it as porny?
!!!
The book of The Godfather is schlocky pulp writing; the movie is a great examples of how acting and direction can intersect to create a multi-layered work worth watching over and over again.
I feel I am doomed to not love any more of the Crusie books.
I really didn't like Crazy for You, because of the aforementioned
dark craziness with the BF,
but also because I didn't really believe how the couple that was meant to be together (whatever their names were) hooked up. It seemed forced.
The most recent Crusie I read is Tell Me Lies, which I liked decently (and holy cow on the hot hot sexy sex). But it's no Faking It.
ION, I just saw on Amazon.com that their #1 book is Eats, Shoots & Leaves. How cool is THAT? A *grammar* book!!! Grammar RO0LZ!!!1!
ArcaneJill, most new Crusies are in General Fiction rather than Romance (I note that you said you were looking for Roberts). It's a marketing switch rather than a content switch IMHO.
I have yet to read Crazy For You and Welcome To Temptation -- looks like I have a mixed bag ahead of me.
So far, Faking It was the sexiest, and the funniest.
oh ita, Welcome is so good.
msbelle is right. Though I still like Faking It better, only because I'm *really* fond of the whole nutty Goodnight family.
I will definitely buy it then.
I'm not done with Faking It yet, and it's actually taking me longer to get into than almost any of her others, despite the fact that Tilda's voice is wonderfully wry. And the inhaler-puffing in the beginning is a great comic device (not so much for real asthmatics, I know). I loved Tell Me Lies from the opening sentence, and Welcome was also wonderful -- Phin was a great love interest. Agreeage on the plot element in question in Crazy for You -- it was a little much.
Question for all the lovely brains here: Young adult/childhood books were discussed way, way, way upthread, and last night I got into the topic with a friend as we compared what books we had book read growing up. One book I've never been able to find again was almost a time travel -- the girl "wakes up" in another century, and she's either a princess or simply in a castle, but rather than "true" time travel, she has epilepsy. I could swear the name of the book was I Hear(d) the Bluebirds Singing but I can't find mention of it anywhere. Any guesses? It either a late '60s or very early '70s book.
Picked up Annie Dillard's The Living at a library book sale last night, too, for all of a dime. Anyone read it? I had a friend awhile back who kept telling me to try her, especially Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but I hadn't up till now.
