Book meme! Day 25
Day 25 - Any five books from your "to be read" stack
Rachel Caine - Lord of Misrule. (The Morganville Vampires - book five). I like Rachel Caine books because they move along at a ferocious clip and I rarely if ever hate the characters. I like the Weather Wardens better than the Morganville Vampires, but I suspect that's because the Warden books are aimed and marketed at my demographic and the Morganville ones aren't. I find all the boys in the series eminently forgettable and/or annoying (I am too old to find a boy's tormented background charming unless he shows some thoughtful consideration and adult emotional perspective too, which is asking a bit much of a tormented 17 year old, probably) but I really like the female characters and the world-building.
And the vampires are a nice sort, for the type of series it is: creepy, inhuman, powerful, flawed, and occasionally full of disconcertingly recognizable emotions.
Lloyd Alexander - Westmark. I have read this dozens of times, but I just scored a used library copy of the nice looking hardcover (the one with the watercolor on the white background) at the used book sale, so I'll probably re-read it soon.
J. H. Elliott - Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. This has been on my to be read stack for, oh, a year and a half now? I will get around to reading it, it might take me another two years. I got halfway through the introduction and realized I didn't know enough about the reconquista or the English wars in Ireland to make sense of the author's arguments. So I went and read 4-5 books somewhat peripheral to the reconquista and now I need to go do the same for things in Ireland and then I can circle back to this book. Probably in a year or two.
Connie Willis - Blackout. A friend loaned me this and I didn't start reading it for months and months as my love for all things Connie Willis warred with my absolute hatred for fiction about real wars. I should have remembered that Connie Willis writes about people. I got half way through it and then my husband packed it by accident and now I have to find which box it's in, unpack it, finish reading it, and mail it back to my friend before All Clear comes out. Which gives me 30 odd days.
Jennifer Crusie - Maybe This Time. I'm reading this at the bookstore, so I'll finish it whenever I've spent enough time at the bookstore or whenever I happen to see it checked in at the library. Or perhaps both. I really like Jennifer Crusie, but not enough to buy her books new in hardcover given my current budget. Her writing pace, actually, reminds me of some of the sillier Connie Willis short stories - things like Spice Pogrom. I suspect it's just because they share a common source material in my absolute favorite genre of movies. Things like, *swoon* Bringing up Baby and My Man Godfrey and His Girl Friday and The Thin Man. I am absolutely with Cynthia Heimel on this - life is better if you pretend to be Myrna Loy as Nora Charles.
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Rachel Caine - Lord of Misrule. (The Morganville Vampires - book five). I like Rachel Caine books because they move along at a ferocious clip and I rarely if ever hate the characters. I like the Weather Wardens better than the Morganville Vampires, but I suspect that's because the Warden books are aimed and marketed at my demographic and the Morganville ones aren't. I find all the boys in the series eminently forgettable and/or annoying (I am too old to find a boy's tormented background charming unless he shows some thoughtful consideration and adult emotional perspective too, which is asking a bit much of a tormented 17 year old, probably) but I really like the female characters and the world-building.
And the vampires are a nice sort, for the type of series it is: creepy, inhuman, powerful, flawed, and occasionally full of disconcertingly recognizable emotions.
Lloyd Alexander - Westmark. I have read this dozens of times, but I just scored a used library copy of the nice looking hardcover (the one with the watercolor on the white background) at the used book sale, so I'll probably re-read it soon.
J. H. Elliott - Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. This has been on my to be read stack for, oh, a year and a half now? I will get around to reading it, it might take me another two years. I got halfway through the introduction and realized I didn't know enough about the reconquista or the English wars in Ireland to make sense of the author's arguments. So I went and read 4-5 books somewhat peripheral to the reconquista and now I need to go do the same for things in Ireland and then I can circle back to this book. Probably in a year or two.
Connie Willis - Blackout. A friend loaned me this and I didn't start reading it for months and months as my love for all things Connie Willis warred with my absolute hatred for fiction about real wars. I should have remembered that Connie Willis writes about people. I got half way through it and then my husband packed it by accident and now I have to find which box it's in, unpack it, finish reading it, and mail it back to my friend before All Clear comes out. Which gives me 30 odd days.
Jennifer Crusie - Maybe This Time. I'm reading this at the bookstore, so I'll finish it whenever I've spent enough time at the bookstore or whenever I happen to see it checked in at the library. Or perhaps both. I really like Jennifer Crusie, but not enough to buy her books new in hardcover given my current budget. Her writing pace, actually, reminds me of some of the sillier Connie Willis short stories - things like Spice Pogrom. I suspect it's just because they share a common source material in my absolute favorite genre of movies. Things like, *swoon* Bringing up Baby and My Man Godfrey and His Girl Friday and The Thin Man. I am absolutely with Cynthia Heimel on this - life is better if you pretend to be Myrna Loy as Nora Charles.
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