Monthly Archives: April 2005
A Stroke of Midnight
Laurell K. Hamilton * * * * * I’m beginning to think that I need to start keeping a scorecard while reading the books in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry series, because I’ve lost count of which men she’s bedded and how many times, and where. It’s a good thing Meredith is a fictional character, … Continue reading
The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd * * * * * Last year, when I read The Secret Life of Bees, I fell in love with it. In that book, Sue Monk Kidd’s words had a rhythm of their own, reminiscent of a sultry summer day, and the slow blossoming of a girl into womanhood. This year’s offering, … Continue reading
Pentagon
Pentagon Allen Drury When I was in high school, I read everything Allen Drury had ever written up to 1984, most of which were novels set in and around the Nixon presidency, Watergate, all of that. Drury tells good stories, and his original characters were fresh and interesting, as well as being multi-dimensional. So, when … Continue reading
Ya-Yas In Bloom
Rebecca Wells * * * * * I first encountered Rebecca Wells when I read Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, about seven years ago, long before there was even thought of a movie. I fell in love with the vivacious, scandalous, wonderful, and wonderfully human characters that Wells had created. When I encountered them … Continue reading
Stolen
Kelley Armstrong * * * * * The second installment in Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series begins with Elena – and us as readers – learning that there are other mythical creatures running around – witches, shamans, vampires, telekinetics – some of whom feel they’re being hunted. The story is good, though, in retrospect, … Continue reading
Just a Geek
by Wil Wheaton * * * * * If you’re a regular reader of Wil Wheaton’s blog, there isn’t much that is new or surprising in his second book, though it does include far more material than Dancing Barefoot did. Still, even for someone like me, who reads his blog fairly religiously, the book was … Continue reading
V (and others)
by A. C. Crispin, and others. * * * * * As part of my recent geeky nostalgia festival of watching all of V (the original miniseries, The Final Battle, and all nineteen episodes of the television show) I went upstairs to The Room That Will Someday Be a Game Room and found all the … Continue reading
Dancing at the Edge of the World
by Ursula K. LeGuin * * * * * My aunt gave me this book when I turned 21. It’s not a novel, but a collection of essays and transcribed speeches – the commencement address given to a graduating class at Mills College, is one such speech. Nearly fourteen years later, it’s still a book … Continue reading
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
by Lauren Willig * * * * * They seek him here, they seek him there. The Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven, or in hell? The damned elusive Pimpernel Those four lines sparked my love of historical intrigue when I was twelve years old, and saw the remake of Baroness Orczy’s The … Continue reading
