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Post by scrubb on May 29, 2023 12:31:30 GMT -5
46. The Door in the Hedge, by Robin McKinley. A retelling of some fairy tales. Part way through I realized I've read it before. I couldn't remember much about it though, and they were well done, so I kept reading.
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Post by scrubb on May 30, 2023 15:39:22 GMT -5
I borrowed a Maeve Binchy book from the library this morning - hadn't heard of this one, as far as I remembered. Turns out it's a bunch of short stories and they are really NOT her forte. The whole thing about her books is the characters - she makes them worth reading about - and in a short story there's just not enough time to care about them.
After the first 3 stories (they're very short, and that only took about 20 minutes to read) I was going to return the book but decided I may as well keep going. I finished all 3oo pages in 1 hour and 12 minutes, apparently, and that included dozing off several times in the last story. Not sure it was worth the extra 50 minutes, really. So - I do NOT recommend:
47) The Return Journey, by Maeve Binchy.
(And it turns out, when I checked, that I already read the book over 10 years ago, and I didn't like it then, either.)
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Post by lillielangtry on May 30, 2023 22:52:59 GMT -5
Oh dear!
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Post by sophie on May 30, 2023 23:36:00 GMT -5
Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea. This is a follow up novel to The Hummingbird’s Daughter which traces the second part of Teresita Urrea’s life once she leaves Mexico and lives in the US. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first novel; I found the writing slow and ponderous. It was a bit sad how her life was controlled by men who wanted to profit from her reputation.
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Post by sophie on May 31, 2023 21:10:31 GMT -5
Desert Star by Michael Connelly. A good detective novel, part of a series with Harry Bosch, a crusty old LAPD detective being the main character. I enjoyed it, a fast read with interesting action.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jun 1, 2023 6:58:00 GMT -5
Last two for May.
33. Snobbery with Violence, MC Beaton, quick read mystery set in the Edwardian era.
34. Murder on the Flying Scotsman, Carola Dunn, mystery set in the 1920s.
Both fun, and a bit formulaic. The first was a paperback from my TBR shelf, the second an audiobook.
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Post by Liiisa on Jun 1, 2023 20:03:50 GMT -5
47) Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places
This was a really great set of short stories. It was filed under sci-fi and most of them were speculative, or just weird in some way, or touching and interesting or disturbing. The last one about the campers and the trees was a marvelous way to end the collection.
I'll definitely look for more of her stuff.
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Post by scrubb on Jun 2, 2023 22:01:51 GMT -5
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