RE:
Olivia Joules and The Overactive Imagination
by Helen Fielding. Just finished it. Here are my recommendations if you wish to enjoy this book:
1. Read on beach, patio or similar sunny spot, preferably with large, fruity, alcoholic beverage.
2a. Pretend it wasn't written by Helen Fielding. If not possible,
2b. Try to forget you've ever heard of Bridget Jones, or her diaries.
3. Someone mentioned Mary Sue, I believe, in relation to this book. If you have feelings of hatred towards her, forget above and skip the book.
2b. Try to forget you've ever heard of Bridget Jones, or her diaries.
I am trying to do this as I read the book. There are some glimmers of goodness, but for the most part it is a real dissapointment. Nothing at all like either of the Bridget Jones novels.
I picked up Welcome To Temptation. I needed to go to sleep early, what with the 5:15 wakeup time this morning.
Not until I finished it. It was funny and hot, and I'll be damned -- now that I remember that feeling, I can walk easily away from the two books that are pissing me off/boring me right now.
I just need another book -- my sister mentioned James Baldwin, so maybe I'll hunt him down.
I'm in the middle of Anonymous Rex, and enjoying it. My main issue is that I can't figure out how a dino could function in a human suit -- the proportions would be all wrong! But then I start wondering about millions of years of evolution, etc. I figure if that's what I'm nitpicking, he's done a pretty good job of making me buy into the whole concept.
Cool, cool. That book has intrigued me; I've wanted to read it for some time. I've been a dinosaur freak since I was a kid.
It's very funny, all the alternate/hidden world stuff. But at its core, it's a detective story.
Ain't nothing wrong with that. I had an Agatha Christie phase back in the day, too.
Just finished
City of Masks
by Daniel Hecht. Deb mentioned the 2nd book in the series upthread. It has been a long time since I have wanted to read everythign by an anuthor NOW. Cree Black is our main character , but I think what drove the story was the fact that I was introduced to all the characters and know some of them better than I know Cree. Somehow learning about each person solved the ghost story/mystery. Really a rich book. Hard to put down, not because I needed to know what happened next, but because I fell so hard into the world of the book.
I'm re-reading
Mirabile
by Janet Kagan. Gotta love an author who can come up with creatures like the kangaroo rex and the frankenswine.
