I’ve been saying I was going to write a list of the magazines I read as well, but so far I keep forgetting to do so. HOWEVER, here’s the inaugural “Magazines I’ve Read This Month” post!
- March/April 2008 Mental Floss
- March/April 2008 Bookmarks
- March/April 2008 Pink (which is actually a business magazine for women, not a fluffy fashiony magazine, though that’s what it sounds like.)
- April 2008 Writer’s Digest – they interviewed Laurell K. Hamilton
- March 6 Between the Lines
- March 13 Between the Lines
- March 27 Between the Lines
- 3/17/08 MiBiz
- 3/31/08 MiBiz
- Winter 2008 Resource Center News
- November 2007 O, the Oprah Magazine
- January 2008 O, the Oprah Magazine
- March 2008 More
- April 2008 More
- March/April 2008 Advancing Philanthropy
- February 21 Chronicle of Philanthropy
- March 6 Chronicle of Philanthropy
- March 20 Chronicle of Philanthropy
Yes, I read two books by the same author, in the same series, on the same day. You’d think I’d get them confused, but I didn’t.
This book picks up essentially where Circle of Quilters leaves off. The new teachers are coming, the old teachers are leaving. Summer is going to grad school and Judy got a job at another university. However, what’s kind of cool about this is that you get each major character’s history and how they got involved in quilting. Judy’s story broke my heart, in a way, but she overcame it, obviously.
The newest employees are in the book but not in depth as yet. Anna is the new chef and Gretchen the new teacher. Sarah and Matt have a couple of surprises, too. It also looks as if Jeremy, Summer’s boyfriend, and Anna might wind up being a couple. It seems pretty obvious so I hope that I’m wrong about that in future books.
Overall a good story but it’s best, I think, if you’ve read the entire series.
In this book, Sylvia and Andrew are having a honeymoon in New York City and then going to tell Andrew’s daughter, Amy, that they got married over Christmas. It’s problematic because Amy doesn’t approve of the marriage.
As with many of Chiaverini’s books, the present is woven with the past. In this, the reader gets another side of Sylivia’s family history.
Book 3.
In this book, we revisit Paige and Savannah from Stolen, as well as Leah. Paige is a witch who is, at a very young age, Coven Leader because her mother died. Savannah is a very powerful witch whose birth father, a sorcerer, is trying to get her from Paige, for some reason.
It’s hard for me to explain these books because there are subplots and subthemes. In this one, for Paige, it’s about realizing that the women she’d considered family and her allies are not.
Book 2.
I’ve decided that I *really* like this series. This was so well-written. Essentially, Someone is capturing supernaturals to study them for some reason. Elena - the werefwolf from Bitten - is captured. The story revolves around her experiences and then her attempt to escape and what happens next.
We also meet the main characters of the next books. If I didn’t have so many books at home to read, I’d go right over to amazon.com and buy the rest of this series.
Here’s another of the Lily Bard series.
As I think I said about the last one, I enjoy these books when I need something light. I had a migraine and, as it wound down, I wanted to read but I didn’t want to have to think too hard. This was perfect.
I think Charlaine Harris is getting better at writing Lily. Her voice is becoming stronger and we’re seeing more depth to her - she is more than just the kidnapping and rape that happened early in her adult life. In this book, we see her develop her relationship with Jack as well as with a couple of her friends.
Okay, so here’s the thing: Lily joins a rape support group. The counselor, it turns out, is being stalked and the book centers around that and the people who are interested. A detective from the counselor’s former city, a true crime writer and, of course, Lily.
The ending sort of surprised me, actually.
This is the 3rd of 4th of a series by Charlaine Harris, who writes the Southern Vampire books that I like.
Lily Bard lives in Shakespeare, AR and seems to always come across dead people. In this case, it’s the “Town Trollop” of the title. Lily gets drawn into the drama unfolding around the death and ultimately finds out who killed her.
It’s light reading, not deep at all, but entertaining.
I’d read this before but I forgot until I was partway through it, so I just finished it for the second time.
It was still not that great. I mean, it was okay, but not great. That’s really all I have to say about it.
It took me a couple of tries to get into this book. I’m like that sometimes.
The main character, Lucy Trenton, has the ability to sense magic. (Or as they call it “magick.”) She gets herself into a great deal of trouble by following her sense toward something that would cause her more trouble than she could have imagined – a True Cipher. A True Cipher is a magical object, created by a man named Cipher. They normally cause a person trouble and Lucy is sure that’s true in this case.
It is, after a fashion, but also leads to great things for Lucy and her kingdom.
While I am a Grammar Girl as well as a Glamour Girl, I never thought a book entirely about punctuation would be funny.
It is.
I can not give you examples since I do not have the book with me but trust me. It’s funny. For example, she can not imagine how on Earth someone could get to adulthood and NOT know that an apostrophe + an “s” makes things possessive rather than plural. For that alone, I’d love her.
You should read this. Really you should.
