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.
Happy Bloomsday to you, Steph!