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Reading Through the Nyte
If it has pages, I will try to read it. Admittedly, I will not always succeed, as some books honestly do not deserve to be printed, not to mention finished. After reading them, I like telling people about books-- whether to avoid them or seek them out... and so it goes...
Currently reading
Good Omens: The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
My Antonia
Bran New Death
Fate's Edge
Brownies and Broomsticks
New Tricks
Espresso Shot
Empress: A Novel
Making Greeting Cards with Rubber Stamps
This is another nice book that first explains the basics of stamping cards, and later gives some lovely examples.
Wife of the Chef
Wow, someone woke up, had a nice bracing PITCHER of Carnation Instant Bitch and decided SHE was going to tell everyone how hard life was being the woman behind the chef at a semi successful restaurant. She is smarter, more refined, works harder, and is just plain BETTER than everyone around her—it must be tiring dealing with us weaker mortals while she is on whatever caused her time away from Olympus, where OBVIOUSLY she belongs. The sad part is that the information in the book was fascinating, once you ignored her pomposity. I had an interest in eating in her place, but after reading this, no thank you… I’m just… just not GOOD enough to be her customer.
The stories are sweet, and a nice light read during the summer; I love the thoughts of snow and winter then :D
Mr Hoving turned the Metropolitan Museum of Art from a staid collection of paintings and sculpture into a vibrant collection of all that art can and should be, for anyone to come in and enjoy. That is opinion, but one generally held by most historians who studied the evolution of Manhattan’s jewel during the late 60’s until the late 70’s. I’m withholding any other opinion, save that it is a shame Mr. Hoving took the time to be a cheap greasy, sleazeball of a weasel to each and every person he felt slighted him in nearly any way during those years, and even worse, to print this book when so many of these people are dead and cannot defend themselves from his bitchy commentary. That is my OWN opinion, garnered after reading a book I honestly had looked forward to reading for years.
Yay! The second trilogy is done! Love has Conquered All, The Big Bad is dead dead dead... mebbe... and all is happy... except for the possibility that the half demonic, half undead child of the Big Bad was actually not just allowed to be born, but is being happily raised at the very source of it's demonic 'father's' power which is also the crown city of this planet. Is anyone but me seeing yet another sex filled trilogy wherein true love is going to have to conquer all yet freaking AGAIN? With loads and loads of sex thrown in for good measure?... I think I'll pass on the third go around... oh damn, I have book one... which I will put aside for a few months...
And now we have book two of the second trilogy by the author, and I'm starting to get a little tired of it all. The female characters really are starting to be one and the same-- superpowerful but for some reason unable to USE their power against the big bad who really needs a snidely whiplash mustache to twirl as he sucks the blood and soul out of innocent women before dropping them at his feet.Each book deals with yet another child from the three sisters of the first trilogy, and how they find their One True Love despite Great Evil in the Land and their Need to Vanquish it. One trilogy was really good-- this one is trailing off into serious meh.
This is book one of a new fantasy series. Rather dark, with the usual "female protagonist selected for some huge prophesy that will turn her world inside out, but make not just HER, but her WORLD better in the process" concept, but you are allowed, with the addition of a lot of different types of characters, to wonder whether or not our Heroine is really going to make things better, after all.I just have one wish for those who write these books-- can you freaking PLEASE make the heroine LESS clueless? I mean, I am so very tired of everyone around them knowing so much but refusing to share any of teh knowledge as it might... I dunno... allow the heroine to make the RIGHT decision without killing her best friend or giving her some other horrid psychic wound? Sheesh...
Short stories that give more background to the books set in Ms. Baudino's elf series. So very, very good-- I really wish she had more out there!
Fledgling witch Jane has been set a daunting task—she must perform a crucial spell in order to not just join the prestigious Washington DC coven but prove she is competent enough to keep her spellbooks, spell working items, and familiar. She *has* the ability, or so she hopes, but so much is going on in her life that she might not have the time to learn the lessons she needs to learn… and more importantly, to realize that being true to yourself is the most important power anyone can have. It is silly, as most chicklit can be, but it is also a nice fun read.
Book two in a series. The good thing is that the heroine of the book is not whining as much, and is actually using her much vaunted by everyone around her brain. The plot is decent, if a bit repetitive from book one, but that is excusable since it seems that the author is trying for a long saga of a series with a continually evolving villain AND hero/heroine pair. It felt a bit one dimensional, but I’m hopeful that will change as the author adds to her universe.
This book starts the second trilogy of a nicely cheesy romantic fantasy series. Each book adds a bit more graphic sex, but that is also expected with the genre. And as an aside, although the title seems to imply that the main character is male, it really is the female protagonist who has the majority viewpoint and is whom the “prophesy” depends upon for this book.
This is more romantic cheese, but a lot more actual sex; still has a decent plot and characters, however. Just wish the author had kept to the way she really only followed ONE heroine from beginning to end.
If you have seen the movie, this is the shooting script, and the directions, etc were quite fascinating. The script itself, well, is wonderful, as was the movie.
A charmingly cheesy romantic fantasy with some mild sex and a lot of "wooing" along with a pretty decent plot and set of characters. The start of a long, involved series, as well.
The start of a rather good fantasy series— there are ‘gates” that lead from universe to universe, and those who keep the gates protect each universe from stray bits of magic, monsters, etc. Some universes are “lower” than our own, wherein we would be gods should we be seen or interact with the individuals on that world. Conversely, there are also universes where the inhabitants there would be gods to us. The Gatekeepers make sure that the gates are kept protected, and closed… but evil rarely accepts rules that would stifle it and when an imbalance occurs between another world and our own, it may mean disaster for both worlds. The comparison between both worlds was wonderful, as was the description of how magic works and why on both our own world and there. The characters, both good and evil were engaging and I am eager to start the next book in the trilogy.