what are you reading?
Edited Jul 15, 2006 6:44 pm
don't we have a thread for this already?
(2903 previous messages)Willow
- Mar 1, 2010 4:07 pm (#2904 of 2919)
I can honestly say that it is very readable and extremely enjoyable.
- Mar 1, 2010 4:15 pm (#2905 of 2919)
I have it open and am reading it in snatches as I can.
- Mar 2, 2010 11:46 am (#2906 of 2919)
It's very, very good. I put some comments in the folder over there.
Willow
- Mar 2, 2010 12:03 pm (#2907 of 2919)
I am terrible with critique -- and Mac deserves better. It's such a great story and I like her writing style.
- Mar 2, 2010 12:16 pm (#2908 of 2919)
It's got a great beat and you can dance to it?
Willow
- Mar 2, 2010 12:20 pm (#2909 of 2919)
exactly!
- Mar 3, 2010 2:39 am (#2910 of 2919)
I'm reading J D Robb's latest Fantasy In Death which has taken me a little longer to get into than her other In Death books. I think it's because it feels a little like The Lovely Bones in that, from the beginning, you know what happened to the dead guy and you have to wait for the police to catch up. It took almost 200 pages and I was getting very annoyed.
For the record, I got so frustrated with TLB that I would have thrown it across the room had I owned it. Instead I was suitably forceful when I put it back through the slot at the library.
- Mar 3, 2010 7:06 am (#2911 of 2919)
i've not loved the last 3 or 4 JD Robb's, i must say. this one seemed to drag on and on and on repeating stuff we already knew, a la the hardy boys.
- Mar 3, 2010 8:42 am (#2912 of 2919)
I wonder if Nora Roberts has passed her saturation point? She's putting out so many books per year (I can think of four or five in the last year) and while part of me knows it's dreck, it's usually dreck I enjoy. In the case of this book and the last In Death book, I'm finding that she's making Eve more approachable and emotional - I wonder if she's leading up to a baby for Eve & Roarke? I know it was obliquely mentioned in this book (as a thing for the future), but I'm pretty sure that would kill the series.
- Mar 3, 2010 10:16 am (#2913 of 2919)
well i'm pretty sure she no longer writes them herself; she has a stable of writers who churn out the book after she outlines the story (or so i've heard). i can tell the style of the only one of her writers i like any more, i'd be willing to bet you! ;)
just wanted to share that "lion in the valley" (in which i found ramses pretty annoying) is much better now that i've read the mummy case.
and amelia is especially amusing and pithy in this one. here's one of my favorite lines so far, which i may have posted before (she is talking about a man or woman being too meek in his or her relations with the opposite sex):
If someone lies down and invites you to trample him, you are a remarkable person if you decline the invitation.
- Mar 3, 2010 10:29 am (#2914 of 2919)
One has to love Amelia.
Mary just e-mailed me a couple hours ago that a NEW ! Amelia will be out on April 6. It is called A River in the Sky, it takes place in 1910 in Palestine.
Mary has already ordered it, and cleared a spot on the book shelf in anticipation.
YES!!!!!!!!
- Mar 3, 2010 10:45 am (#2916 of 2919)
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
*adds one more thing to the "things to do before flying to New Zealand" list*
- Mar 3, 2010 11:03 am (#2917 of 2919)
- Mar 3, 2010 9:50 pm (#2918 of 2919)
Heeee! Ms Peters is awesome! *notes title of book, puts it on the list*
The next one in the series (as far as I have gotten) FINALLY arrived at the library for me and I am picking it up tomorrow (Deeds of the Disturber). The only copy in the whole library system was out on an inter-library loan (heck, it wasn't even in the same ISLAND as I was :sad: ) when I ordered it and I've been waiting weeks! That may seem like nothing to all of you who've waited years between books, but I've really been getting into this and I am not known for my patience or willingness to delay gratification.
- Mar 4, 2010 2:02 pm (#2919 of 2919)
finally watched the video - excellent ;) she's so matter-of-fact-ish :) i read the other 'out of sequence' one in actual chronological (for Amelia) order but it occurs to me i didn't check to see if there were any more of them in the later years. they just called from the library to tell me the last camel died at noon was in.... i want to re-read that one too. i will probably end up reading them all again in order ;)
what are you reading?