Tuesday, May 31, 2005

And...

I had to give up on Hunchback of Notre Dame. Just could not get into the book at all. I did try. Gave it about fifty pages longer than any other book and gave up the ghost about 100 pages into it.
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Monday, May 30, 2005

Currently reading

Since I finished a couple from my previous list - I thought I'd update it.

Currently reading:

The Abandoned by Douglas Clegg

The Hunchback of Notre Dome by Victor Hugo

and considering starting If Angels Burn by Lynn Viehl

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Finished this book. It was good. Funny in parts and the mystery wasn't too simple to figure out. Plus, there was a light dash of romance sprinkled throughout it.

Will read next one in series when it comes out.

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Sunday, May 29, 2005

A Choir of Ill Children - Piccirilli

Finished it this morning. I liked it quite a bit although not as a horror story. In fact I think my brain was processing it more as a dark contempory fantasy literary thing. Oh, sure there are dead people and things but through the eyes of Thomas they are pretty commonplace things. There were twists and turns in there that I never would have expected, a few I should have but didn't, and a couple things left up in the air that could be taken for unanswerable no matter what.

However, I did place an order for November Mourns which follows up A Choir of Ill Children. From the excerpt I read it appears to be in third person instead of 1st which might change things up a bit. Hopefully not too much though.

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Currently

I'm in various stages of reading three books

The Abandoned by Douglas Clegg

A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli

Slay it With Flowers by Kate Collins


I'm hoping to finish the Piccirilli today. This is an extremely odd book but I'm quite enjoying it. I've tried another of his books The Deceased and wasn't that impressed. I think part of it was the style of the writing in that book. Unable to distinquish between the character's dreaming/visions/and real life sounds like a cool idea but it made it hard for me to follow the story at all. Building up a believable suspense in my mind was impossible.

With A Choir of Ill Children the matter-of-fact dealings with the odd characters and setting do work because right within the first few pages you know this isn't a normal place. In fact, it's when the normal happens that you have to stop and think twice about it.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

An update

Been reading, just not updating.

Last couple weeks have not been so good with the reading. It seems like every other book I picked up I just could not get into at all.

So, why don't I take a quick look at one bad one and one good one that I've read in the last couple weeks.

Testing Miss Toogood by Stella Cameron (historical romance)

I only made it through about two chapters before I started skimming and even then I never finished the book. But I've often found my reactions to Cameron's books to be extremely mixed. The characters were completely unlikeable and the writing style of the book, honestly, put me to sleep.

How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martian (mystery)

Loved this book! Funny and fast and the characters easy to like. This is the first in a series of mysteries. I'm most definitely looking to grab the others tha the library has available. Fans of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich will, I think, highly adore this new mysteries series.

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