Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Excitement!!

Today is the day I've been waiting for!! It is the official release date for An Echo in the Bone, the 7th book in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. FYI, you won't hear from me for a solid week while I tear through this volume.
I've already told Brad that I don't want to be disturbed unless the house is on fire...even then, just let me know if there's structural damage, otherwise I'm sure the firefighters can deal with it; I'll be busy.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Honeymoon Reading

I didn't quite get as much reading in as I had hoped on the honeymoon, but I did tear through two chick-lits.
The first was Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict. This book by Laurie Viera Rigley follows a girl who has recently had her heart broken by her *scumbag* fiance and wakes up in Jane Austen's era/settings in the body of another woman. It's fluff, for sure, and sometimes the main character, Courtney/Jane, was irritating, but for the most part it was a decent read that left me neither fulfilled, nor let down by the end.
I quickly moved on to Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner. The sequel to Good in Bed which I read last summer was not as fulfilling either. The novel is divided between Cannie and her daughter Joy as they plan Joy's bat mitzvah. Joy reads the book that Cannie wrote and sort of falls apart after learning her mom was not interested in having a baby in the first place and that her dad is a loser. It was alright and I, again, tore through it in about two days. I was a little disappointed just because the first one had been so good.
Then again, it's hard to expect much more than fluff from chick-lit, and fluff was what I got.
I'm not reading anything right now because I'm counting the days to the release of Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon, the 7th book in the Outlander series. I've been waiting for FOUR years for this one to come out, and I'm going to be waiting at the door of Coles on the 22nd! EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee!