I've been re-reading my Trixie Belden mysterious and having a great time!
I LOVED those as a tween. I had the entire series. I donated it to a children's hospital when I outgrew it but I cant tell you how often I've wished I had kept them. My daughter has liked the ones we've been able to find locally.
Oh yeah, she's addictive! Now that I think about it, been quite a while since I reread White Lies...may have to dip in there (which, of course, means a reread!)
Lol, I love that book. It's actually the first JAK book I ever read and then it was by accident. I meant to read White Lies by Linda Howard, but was in too much of a hurry and clicked on the wrong book. I quickly hit borrow and then download before rushing out the door to sit with my husband who was hospitalized at the time. When he dozed off, I opened the book and started reading. I was already into the storyline before I realized my mistake. Needless to say she is one of my favorite 'new to me' authors. I also now occasionally deliberately grab several books that have identical titles and do a title binge read. I've found several great books and a couple more authors this way. Some mistakes are joyful surprises.
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Why is it, the more books I read the taller my tbr stack gets?
I've been re-reading my Trixie Belden mysterious and having a great time!
I LOVED those as a tween. I had the entire series. I donated it to a children's hospital when I outgrew it but I cant tell you how often I've wished I had kept them. My daughter has liked the ones we've been able to find locally.
I dnf'd the first book in that series and haven't tried any others. It sounds like I'm not missing out on anything. I love Gone Too Deep by the same author but this series just didn't work for me.
Until now, I would have said Julie Anne Long's What I Did For a Duke, one of my favorite books, had the most conversation between the H and h of any book I've read. It was great to see this couple fall in love. After reading Marguerite Kaye's The Earl's Countess of Convenience, however, I have a new clear winner. This book is practically nothing but conversation between the hero, Alexander, and heroine, Eloise. I enjoyed this book as the conversations are well-written, interesting and the characters likeable, but there is not a lot of action and hardly any secondary characters. I kept reading to find out why they entered into this marriage of convenience, even though some things are fairly predicable.
I finally started reading Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas. So far I'm liking it. But that had been the case with her last book. Hopefully I'll keep on liking it.
Well, I finished Chasing Cassandra and I can safely say that I'm glad I got it from the library. While I didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would, I wouldn't pay money for this. It started out well but then it kind of fizzled for me. I felt like there was too much filler in the book. A lot of scenes could have been left out or been shortened:
After the initial meeting, the H and h hardly spent any time together. Months would go by without them interacting. And how can the book be called Chasing Cassandra when the H doesn't even chase her?
Before I read CC, I reread Mine Till Midnight by LK and what a difference between then and now. I miss that writing. I know I've said this before, and am starting to sound like a broken record, but her 5 year hiatus from writing Historical romance hurt her writing. For me LK has lost her magic.
Another thing that annoyed me was the epilogue. This book was the last book in the series. There should have been a reunion of sorts between all the characters from the previous books. IMO, in this book, the epilogue should have been the last chapter. Then, an epilogue should have been written to show how everyone from the entire series was doing like 5 years later. She did the same thing with The Hathaway series. It was like, ok, Christopher and Bea are happy, that's all folks! But what about everyone else? When a series ends, especially a beloved series like the Hathaways, it should end with something more.
Josie You are right. I never thought about the lack of episodes, but it would have been great to have one for the Hathaway series. I thought Kleypas could have written a series about Kev and Winnifred going to his estate in Ireland and dealing with his half-sisters. I didn't want the Hathaway series to end.
Started this audible book yesterday. It’s the first in a Victorian Historical Mystery series. I listened to books two and three on a recent road trip and enjoyed them. Wish I’d had this first one in hand though to have a better sense of the characters.
Better late than never.
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (10/16) [Lady Sherlock - 1] Narrator is Kate Reading, I like her.
I've been rereading some of the fantasy/scifi Pern series by Anne McCaffrey for the last week. I was on a dragon kick and went back to old favorites. I need to find some new dragon shifter romances.
I've been rereading some of the fantasy/scifi Pern series by Anne McCaffrey for the last week. I was on a dragon kick and went back to old favorites. I need to find some new dragon shifter romances.
agreads, I love that series! Not the more recent books; seemed to just repeat the older stories, but oh those original ones! I read Dragonsong first, then Dragonsinger, and then tracked down the original trilogy. WOW!
I've been rereading some of the fantasy/scifi Pern series by Anne McCaffrey for the last week. I was on a dragon kick and went back to old favorites. I need to find some new dragon shifter romances.
agreads, I love that series! Not the more recent books; seemed to just repeat the older stories, but oh those original ones! I read Dragonsong first, then Dragonsinger, and then tracked down the original trilogy. WOW!
Agreed. When the later books start shifting away from the character driven story to the more scifi action story, it loses some appeal for me. All the characters are still there, but particularly in All the Wyrs of Pern it focuses on the science, training, and shifting the Red Star. I got kind of bored. After that one I went back to Moreta's and Nerilka's books. I still need to read the Skies of Pern to finish out my rereading.
Usual story, if she'd stopped after a certain point. It may be that she had a vision she wanted to expand or complete, or it could be all the fans demanding more stories, regardless of whether she had more to tell, but so it goes. I did rather enjoy the movement back to the technology they'd originally had & lost due to the battle to survive; recognized a lot of the story basics in folks resisting; this is the way we've known it; it must stay that way line. I enjoyed most of those, but when her son started writing with her & then taking over, to me, it seemed to go to repeats. I did love the Skies of Pern; good romance there with F'lessen & Tia. I admit, I'm not so convinced that the new occupation for the dragons & their riders is such a great one or enough to occupy them!
I've been rereading some of the fantasy/scifi Pern series by Anne McCaffrey for the last week. I was on a dragon kick and went back to old favorites. I need to find some new dragon shifter romances.
I've been rereading some of the fantasy/scifi Pern series by Anne McCaffrey for the last week. I was on a dragon kick and went back to old favorites. I need to find some new dragon shifter romances.
I finished reading Laura Matthews' The Loving Seasons, a traditional Regency romance that has been lingering on my Kindle for a few years. I'm glad I finally decided to read it because it was really good. Today it would probably be a series of 3 books, but Matthews wrote one longer story about three friends who leave a ladies' academy to begin their first Season. The writing is great, the three girls all have interesting romances, and there are great secondary characters. I like character-driven stories: no spies, no villains, no murders, just interesting people. What's not to like?