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Dec. 31st, 2006 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseI am bad! I was doing so well on the reading books front, and then I went and took out another 6 or so. Anyways. Since I posted last.
"Who's Sorry Now," a Grace and Favor mystery. It's set in the Depression, a formerly rich pair of "kids" (well, mid twenties, I think) who inherit a big old mansion in middle of nowhere New York, and the prospect of several million if they make it 10 years on their own. While I tend to really like the series, this particular mystery was not nearly as good as the others were. I was sadly disappointed. I'm hoping it was setting things up for the next book, because otherwise, there was a lot of wasted stuff in it.
I started a book, but put it aside for the night, and instead finished off the last 40 pages of "Secrets of the Night," a Georgian romance re-read. Usually the series amuses me, but I've read like, 8 of them recently, so I'm a little burned out right now (the book I put aside, for example, was one of that author's Regencies.)
"Queen Geek Social Club." Pay attention, all you who like YA books. This one was *excellent*. I ended up saying up till 2 to finish it. It's two new best friends who decide to start a club for girls like them--smart, and tired of HS boys. Their first project was Calories for Supermodels, for example, and while I found some parts of it over done and less than believable, overall, it was really really good, and well worth reading, so there's a bunch of you out there who I expect to look it up.
"Ready or Not" and "How to Be Popular" both by Meg Cabot, who the more I read of her, the more i think she must be a very fun person. Her books always have popular teenage culture stuff in them, but at the same time, I get the feeling that she includes it because *she* likes it. So her books are always wonderfully fluffy and just so damn *fun*.
"Heart's Desire" which is the sequel to Beginner's Luck, the YA I raved about a couple of weeks ago. This one may not have been *as* fun, but it was still very good, and well worth the read.
"Charlie Bone and the Hidden King." I don't really recommend these books--they're immiation Harry Potter books, and while they do manage to pull off some differentness, they're also much lighter than the Potter books, have much less happening, and much less developed world. I don't know that they were inspired by Potter, or just coming from the same source material and lucking out in the industry because of Potter, but the fact remains that there are definately better books than this out there, and there's really not much reason to read these books, since there's so many others out there. Except that i started reading them, and now I'n vaguely curious as to how they'll resolve. I don't expect it will be anything really exciting in the resolution, but since I'm taking them out of the library anyways, why not.
And now I'm off to watch the fireworks over the harbor.
"Who's Sorry Now," a Grace and Favor mystery. It's set in the Depression, a formerly rich pair of "kids" (well, mid twenties, I think) who inherit a big old mansion in middle of nowhere New York, and the prospect of several million if they make it 10 years on their own. While I tend to really like the series, this particular mystery was not nearly as good as the others were. I was sadly disappointed. I'm hoping it was setting things up for the next book, because otherwise, there was a lot of wasted stuff in it.
I started a book, but put it aside for the night, and instead finished off the last 40 pages of "Secrets of the Night," a Georgian romance re-read. Usually the series amuses me, but I've read like, 8 of them recently, so I'm a little burned out right now (the book I put aside, for example, was one of that author's Regencies.)
"Queen Geek Social Club." Pay attention, all you who like YA books. This one was *excellent*. I ended up saying up till 2 to finish it. It's two new best friends who decide to start a club for girls like them--smart, and tired of HS boys. Their first project was Calories for Supermodels, for example, and while I found some parts of it over done and less than believable, overall, it was really really good, and well worth reading, so there's a bunch of you out there who I expect to look it up.
"Ready or Not" and "How to Be Popular" both by Meg Cabot, who the more I read of her, the more i think she must be a very fun person. Her books always have popular teenage culture stuff in them, but at the same time, I get the feeling that she includes it because *she* likes it. So her books are always wonderfully fluffy and just so damn *fun*.
"Heart's Desire" which is the sequel to Beginner's Luck, the YA I raved about a couple of weeks ago. This one may not have been *as* fun, but it was still very good, and well worth the read.
"Charlie Bone and the Hidden King." I don't really recommend these books--they're immiation Harry Potter books, and while they do manage to pull off some differentness, they're also much lighter than the Potter books, have much less happening, and much less developed world. I don't know that they were inspired by Potter, or just coming from the same source material and lucking out in the industry because of Potter, but the fact remains that there are definately better books than this out there, and there's really not much reason to read these books, since there's so many others out there. Except that i started reading them, and now I'n vaguely curious as to how they'll resolve. I don't expect it will be anything really exciting in the resolution, but since I'm taking them out of the library anyways, why not.
And now I'm off to watch the fireworks over the harbor.
