Holly: I had another good reading week. I’m still doing a lot of rereading, but I’m not complaining since I’m rediscovering some old favorites.
I finished Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning which I didn’t love as much this time around. I remember adoring this book back when, but the plot was kind of ridiculous and I didn’t like all the POV jumps. Cry No More by Linda Howard made me cry just as much this time as every other time I’ve read it. It just nails me in the heart. Such a great story.
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie was just as enjoyable as always, though I admit I skimmed over all the chapters from David’s POV. Crazy for You by Jennifer Crusie used to be a favorite of mine. I didn’t dislike it this time, but the bits away from the main characters annoyed me. Bill especially bothered me. I always thought he should end up with Bank Barbie rather than going full stalker.
I read Alpha and Omega by Patricia Briggs with my daughter. She went on to read the rest of the series, which she loved (as I knew she would). I finished my rereading with Lord of Scoundrels. I love that book. Love.love.love. I adore Dain, of course, but Jessica is just fabulous. I heart her.
The only new book I read this week was Fall From India Place by Samantha Young. It was a good entry in the series. I really liked Marco and it was good seeing Hannah all grown up. I do wish she’d come to her senses a bit sooner, but that didn’t hurt the story too much.
Rowena: Like Holly, I’m doing a whole lot of re-reading. This week, I read Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning and didn’t give a hoot about how ridiculous it was. Cian was hot stuff and that’s really all I cared about, ha! I also read Sea Swept by Nora Roberts which was another enjoyable re-read for me. Love those Quinns. After that, I went on to read Almost Heaven and Something Wonderful by Judith McNaught.
Now, I’m going to finish Insurgent by Veronica Roth. For reals this time. 🙂
What are you reading?
Wildflower Wedding by LuAnn McLane. It’s a great addition to the Cricket Creek series.
I’ve only read the first book in this series. Are the other books in the series really good?
I love Jennifer Crusie and LuAnn McLane, though I haven’t read any of the Cricket Creek series yet.
This week I read a very enjoyable old (1998) Harlequin Superromance, Anything You Can Do…, by Roz Denny Fox. I have recently become a fan of Ms. Fox! It’s about a group reenacting the kind of wagon train journey settlers made in the 1820’s. A professor is sponsoring several women on the trip, intending to write a paper about how today’s women hold up compared to 1820’s women. He had planned to go by car and stay in hotels and just check in with them occasionally, but got bamboozled into actually participating and driving a wagon, and had a hard time keeping up with the women. And of course fell in love with one of them! I kept thinking it would make a wonderful movie.
Now I’m reading a non-fiction book, Ladies First: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None, by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. Short (three pages each) essays about women who were first to do something, such as “Margaret Bourke-White, first woman photographer to document active war combat missions” and “Julia Morgan, first American woman admitted to the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts Architecture School”.
Clearly I’m on an empowered women kick right now!
I’ve never heard of those books but the Harlequin Superromance sounds like a good one. 🙂