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Reading Post #24
Jul. 22nd, 2006 05:51 pmThis should be the last one pre-MicroVixen. I have no idea how much time I'll have for either reading or updating about the reading once the small one is here and demanding constant attention.
I picked up Legion's Ladies, one of the earlier Judith A. Lansdowne books, in the UBS in Columbia. It wasn't too bad, but I find I can't read too much of her stuff at one time. Too many of the characters and situations are just proof of the old saying, "Poor people are crazy, the rich merely eccentric". If you like her stuff, then you'll like this one. I also found one of the Mills and Boon reprints, Lady Knightley's Secret by Anne Ashley - not bad, but pretty predictable plot twists.
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton was reviewed separately in this post:
http://desert-vixen.livejournal.com/219745.html
Basically, more plot than the last one (Incubus Dreams), but still bogged down with the sex.
Murder After Hours by Agatha Christie (also published as The Hollow) was pretty good. The killer was who I thought it was (after working off the theory of either the most obvious person or the least obvious person) although the how was a little different than what I expected. I'd like to find a better copy of it, one without the old-style green-edged pages. It was a nice outing for Poirot by himself.
Transforming a Rape Culture (revised for 2005), edited by Buchwald, Fletcher, and Ross, was a worthwhile read. Some of the essays were from the original and unchanged, some were updated, and some were brand new. There's a wide variety of topics covered.
On The Way To The Wedding by Julia Quinn was the last one in her eight-book Bridgerton series, and while not the best of the series, definitely good. She's one author that they haven't switched into hardback when she starts selling well, which my budget appreciates.
Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule was an excellent read. I need to find a better copy as this one I picked up in the UBS was not in the best of shape. Mostly because I wasn't totally drawn in by the description on the back, but ended up tearing through it. Definitely recommended.
Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry is the last one out to date in her Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. There's supposed to be a hardback due out in Spring 2007. I think she may have worked things around to where she can give Pitt back the position he lost - or is creating a new one for him. We'll have to see, although I'm not a hundred percent that I'll buy it in hardback. It's a series I enjoy, but there isn't the consuming need to devour the books like, say, SM Stirling or JD Robb or David Weber.
Every now and then, I make it my practice to read something that is likely to annoy me. Just to check out what the other points of view are out there, and so on. 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg was the latest entry in this set. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting - while most of the people he rails against are liberals, there's also people included that I can cheer for being included. His thrust seems to be more the deculturization of America than anything else. One thing that did irritate me was that he seems to think women should just be happy and feminism should go away. After all, we can vote, and we don't have a "wage gap" once you factor in women's "voluntary absence to bear and raise children", which makes me want to slap him. That, however, is a rant for another post and another day.
Soviet Women: Walking The Tightrope by Francine duPlessix Gray is a dated title (1989) that I picked up in the UBS, but definitely worth reading for anyone's who's interested in post-communist Russia. Many of the same viewpoints that the women in the book express remind me of views that were expressed to us in 2004 Ukraine.
Conservatives Without Conscience by James W. Dean was a decent book. It is not an attack on all conservatives, but more on those who have to have things their way or no way. There's also a bit of looking into what makes them tick, and a creepy story about Bill Frist that I was not aware of (ie, that in his med student days, he "adopted" stray cats from shelters so he could dissect and work on their hearts after he'd done all the school would allow him to do). It was an even better read, considering I got it for about half-off courtesy of a Barnes and Noble coupon.
DV
I picked up Legion's Ladies, one of the earlier Judith A. Lansdowne books, in the UBS in Columbia. It wasn't too bad, but I find I can't read too much of her stuff at one time. Too many of the characters and situations are just proof of the old saying, "Poor people are crazy, the rich merely eccentric". If you like her stuff, then you'll like this one. I also found one of the Mills and Boon reprints, Lady Knightley's Secret by Anne Ashley - not bad, but pretty predictable plot twists.
Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton was reviewed separately in this post:
http://desert-vixen.livejournal.com/219745.html
Basically, more plot than the last one (Incubus Dreams), but still bogged down with the sex.
Murder After Hours by Agatha Christie (also published as The Hollow) was pretty good. The killer was who I thought it was (after working off the theory of either the most obvious person or the least obvious person) although the how was a little different than what I expected. I'd like to find a better copy of it, one without the old-style green-edged pages. It was a nice outing for Poirot by himself.
Transforming a Rape Culture (revised for 2005), edited by Buchwald, Fletcher, and Ross, was a worthwhile read. Some of the essays were from the original and unchanged, some were updated, and some were brand new. There's a wide variety of topics covered.
On The Way To The Wedding by Julia Quinn was the last one in her eight-book Bridgerton series, and while not the best of the series, definitely good. She's one author that they haven't switched into hardback when she starts selling well, which my budget appreciates.
Heart Full of Lies by Ann Rule was an excellent read. I need to find a better copy as this one I picked up in the UBS was not in the best of shape. Mostly because I wasn't totally drawn in by the description on the back, but ended up tearing through it. Definitely recommended.
Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry is the last one out to date in her Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. There's supposed to be a hardback due out in Spring 2007. I think she may have worked things around to where she can give Pitt back the position he lost - or is creating a new one for him. We'll have to see, although I'm not a hundred percent that I'll buy it in hardback. It's a series I enjoy, but there isn't the consuming need to devour the books like, say, SM Stirling or JD Robb or David Weber.
Every now and then, I make it my practice to read something that is likely to annoy me. Just to check out what the other points of view are out there, and so on. 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg was the latest entry in this set. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting - while most of the people he rails against are liberals, there's also people included that I can cheer for being included. His thrust seems to be more the deculturization of America than anything else. One thing that did irritate me was that he seems to think women should just be happy and feminism should go away. After all, we can vote, and we don't have a "wage gap" once you factor in women's "voluntary absence to bear and raise children", which makes me want to slap him. That, however, is a rant for another post and another day.
Soviet Women: Walking The Tightrope by Francine duPlessix Gray is a dated title (1989) that I picked up in the UBS, but definitely worth reading for anyone's who's interested in post-communist Russia. Many of the same viewpoints that the women in the book express remind me of views that were expressed to us in 2004 Ukraine.
Conservatives Without Conscience by James W. Dean was a decent book. It is not an attack on all conservatives, but more on those who have to have things their way or no way. There's also a bit of looking into what makes them tick, and a creepy story about Bill Frist that I was not aware of (ie, that in his med student days, he "adopted" stray cats from shelters so he could dissect and work on their hearts after he'd done all the school would allow him to do). It was an even better read, considering I got it for about half-off courtesy of a Barnes and Noble coupon.
DV
