When I was somewhere between 7th and 9th grade I read a few Amanda Quick books that were Mom's. I don't think she gave them to me so much as I picked them up and started reading.
I remember being very annoyed with her use of the phrase "all of a sudden".
Oh-- also non-racy... Barbara Cartland.
Gotta love the...presence of an ellipsis...in a post about...Barbara...and her breathless little...heroines.
So I'm 2/3 of the way through Set This House in Order, and now I understand why it won the Tiptree. Heh.
Sneaky.
I finished
The Night Inspector
by Frederick Busch. Finally at the end, stuff happens. The lack of action through the book didn't really bother me so much. The charcters are are well developed or well described at least. One thing I really liked about it was how the narrative seamlessly moves from one time and place to another time and place and it was never jarring to me. I wonder if that was just me. My bookclub discusses it on Wednesday, so I will find out.
I finished The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch.
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday. Finally! The book was assigned months ago. I'm going to have to review all the notes I took while reading it. (Mostly consisting of "Huh?!" and "EW")
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
Ditto and ditto. I wondered why I couldn't remember anything about the book, and then I saw the bookmark I left, a couple of chapters in. Oops.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday.
SUH-WEET! I want to start an all VC Andrews bookclub.
t runs to B'cry
t just kidding
"Deconstructing Incest and Other Fucked-Up Shit: The V.C. Andrews Bookclub Thread."
Our first book will be
My Sweet Audrina.
The only stand alone book VC Andrews did. Also her first (AFAIK) and no incest in it. IMHO, it's her best, quality-wise. The Heaven series is my favorite, but this one's really good.