Yes I can read two complete books in a day if I don’t do much else.
Though I did do laundry and tidy up the place, I didn’t do a great deal of other things yesterday but read. I was pooped.
In any event, this woman left me a friend request on myspace, so I decided to read the book. It’s okay. It’s not great, but it’s okay. I may read the next one but I won’t buy it. If they have it in my library, then I’ll read it but I didn’t get invested enough in the characters to care what happens to them next. In fact, I had a hard time keeping them straight as I was reading the book.
So, Norah, a lesbian who is not transgendered, decides to see what it’s like to live life as a man, for the purpose of writing about it.
Norah’s alter ego, Ned, joins a blue collar bowling league, stays at a monastary, gets a job as a salesman and joins a men’s group. Ned also dates various women. In the end, Ned tells everyone (except the men’s group) that he is really Norah, to various responses.
I won’t tell you everything but she came to some interesting conclusions about what it is like to be a man in America today. She does tell us that she doesn’t *really* know what it’s like to be a man, but that she has a greater appreciation for them now. She also encounters the bitter single women about whom men complain. Interesting book.
Another series book. I won’t buy another one but if one is in the library, I might pick it up.
Three “old ladies” who live in a boarding house decide to move to another city in another state when one of them inherits a house. It’s not a particularly compelling story but it wasn’t awful either.
I thought this was going to be a very different book than it turned out to be.
This book was amazing. It may wind up among my favorites.
David Henry is a doctor who winds up delivering his own twins due to various circumstances. It’s 1964. They have a son and a daughter - the daughter is born with Down’s Syndrome. He freaks and asks his nurse to take the baby to a hospital for children who are “retarded.” He tells his wife, Norah, that the baby is dead.
The nurse, Caroline, can not leave Phoebe (the baby) there in the insitution, so she takes her to Pittsburgh to raise her.
This story is all about the problems this lie of David’s causes his entire family: him, hiw wife Norah and their son, Paul.
You get the story from the perspectives of all but Phoebe, so it’s more multi-dimensional than if you only knew David’s version, or Caroline’s, or Norah’s.
This is a re-issue of a pulp fiction book from the 60’s. It’s called a lesbian book but only one character of the 3 main ones is a lesbian and then only in the very end. On a good note, at least it’s a happy ending for the lesbian not a tragic story of suicide. The funny thing? The lesbian’s name is Barby.
I’d read such good things about this book that I wanted to like it but I didn’t. I was whiny and self-indulgent. Some of her descriptions made me sick. She clearly doesn’t like women very much.
Secretly, I love the Princess Diary books. I don’t care if I’m 40 years old and these books are meant for teenagers. I love them. So there.
I have also read others of Meg Cabot’s such as “Size 12 is Not Fat” and “Size 14 is Not Fat Either.” Which I liked.
Queen of Babble was cute and light. Much like everything else I’m reading these days. I liked the characters and could completely relate to the “telling everything to the exactly wrong person” thing that the main character did.
The thing is, I can’t remember anyone’s name. I’m not sure if that’s due to bad character development or simply bad memory but I can usually remember the names of characters. For example, in “Size 12″ and “Size 14″ the main character’s name is Heather Wells. The “Princess Diaries” was Mia. I even remember Mia’s cat’s name - Fat Louie.
QOB was a nice, light story but I don’t know if I’ll read the second in the series.
This is another series. I dont’ know why I like series books so much but I do.
So, the main character, Rachel Morgan, is a witch. In her world, there are Inderlanders (witches, were-whatevers, vampires and other assorted creatures) and the rest of us. I can’t remember what they call the non-magical. Rachel is basically the equivalent of an FBI-agent who wants to quit. Only in her world, they have a life time contract, so to do so is problematic.
She and Ivy, her nemesis (at least at the beginning) both leave, along with Jenks, a pixie. They start their own business. Except, they really can’t because too many people are trying to kill Rachel.
It was an interesting book and I’ll probably read the next in the series.
Okay, the adventure continues.
In this, book the 4th, (why am I doing that?) QB continues her saga with Laura, who may not be who she appears to be.
QB read The Book of the Dead too long and goes all Evil Vampire on her best friends, Jess and Marc, as well as Tina, the long time friend of Sinclair, QB’s fiancee.
This book was so funny at times, that I laughed right out loud.
