51. Surrender, Amanda Quick
50. Dangerous, Amanda Quick
49. Wait 'til Midnight, Amanda Quick
I would have read more on our vacay had it not been raining, but through airports, traveling, lounge reading and our one nice day, I managed to get through three in about 6 days (I brought 7 books lol)
Anyway I'm obviously still in my AQ phase ... I love her books, and I'm about to check out one of hers that I've, for some reason unknown, never read before ... I'm excited. Also, she just released a new one (The Burning Lamp) as part of her Arcane Society series. I'm going to go buy it today, hopefully :D
Anyway these three are an odd mix — they are varied on the spectrem of my love for her. Dangerous is my favorite of her books. Like favorite. I mean, Mischief and Mistress come in as close (tied) seconds ... but i L.O.V.E. love love love Dangerous. Wait 'til Midnight is one of those, unless i'm completely obsessed, that I skip over when I'm reading AQ ... I like it, a lot, I really like the hero in it ... but it just is lacking a bit ... like I've probably said before any AQ book is still worlds better than some of the stuff out there, but if we're comparing them. Surrender is my least favorite AQ book. Which is saying something because she obviously has lots of books. The hero is a fortune hunter (that's a struggle in and of itself, getting us to like a character -- a male character -- who is only after our heroine's money. We're trained in historical novel reading to hate fortune hunters and then boom, our hero turns out to be one.) Once we get over that hurdle, which I'm not sure I ever do, you have him acting like ... well like they would have actually acted back then ... which, some would argue is good, but we don't want to read that! He limits what she can do with her money, he's not guilty about deceiving her, he's extremely dictatorial ... etc. etc. And she still gives in anyway ... maybe it's because i'm a (notorious) grudge holder, I wanted her to resist him a little more stongly. Still I liked her for the most part ... I don't read this one much (maybe two other times, tops) and I can see why. Still I read the whole thing, and it captured my attention through out.
I'm one book away from my second goal of 52 books between June 1, 2009 - June 1, 2010. I think i'll beat it, but i'm not going to set a new goal. We'll see how many I read in May ... it maybe two it may be 10 ... I'm not going to force it :D
til next time, happy readings :D
Friday, April 23, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
One of my favorites
48. Affair, Amanda Quick
For some reason I just love this book, this story, these characters. There are some lines that are corny as Iowa, but if you get past those you just fall in love with it. I don't know what i'm reading next ... I'm still in the mood for more quick but i've kind of exhausted my options. Maybe some Suz (i just went to see her play in NYC ... it was good, but not fantastic) Anyway we'll see :D
happy readings :)
For some reason I just love this book, this story, these characters. There are some lines that are corny as Iowa, but if you get past those you just fall in love with it. I don't know what i'm reading next ... I'm still in the mood for more quick but i've kind of exhausted my options. Maybe some Suz (i just went to see her play in NYC ... it was good, but not fantastic) Anyway we'll see :D
happy readings :)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Before I forget ...
47. The Paid Companion, Amanda Quick
This one actually isn't one of my favorites. I picked it up off my bookshelf and there was a bookmark halfway through still stuck in it. That's never a good sign because it means the last time i attempted to read it I put it down with out finishing it. I almost never don't finish a book. As I was reading I realized why. The thriller part of it, the mystery, the plot isn't that great. It feels ... contrived ... forced ... secondary, but a main part of the book. The relationship is cute just like all of her other ones, but the "crime" just fell short of being compelling.
This one actually isn't one of my favorites. I picked it up off my bookshelf and there was a bookmark halfway through still stuck in it. That's never a good sign because it means the last time i attempted to read it I put it down with out finishing it. I almost never don't finish a book. As I was reading I realized why. The thriller part of it, the mystery, the plot isn't that great. It feels ... contrived ... forced ... secondary, but a main part of the book. The relationship is cute just like all of her other ones, but the "crime" just fell short of being compelling.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
getting closer :)
46. Mischief, Amanda Quick
I love love love this book for some reason ... on of my favorites from her! :)
45.Late to the wedding, Amanda Quick
I love love love this book for some reason ... on of my favorites from her! :)
45.Late to the wedding, Amanda Quick
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
sticking with quick
44. Don't Look Back, Amanda Quick
43. With This Ring, Amanda Quick
It helps that i discovered i can read hardbacks and run at the same time ... it hurts that it's the olympics and there are hours and hours of coverage to watch ;p
43. With This Ring, Amanda Quick
It helps that i discovered i can read hardbacks and run at the same time ... it hurts that it's the olympics and there are hours and hours of coverage to watch ;p
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
back to quick for a bit
42. Lie by moonlight, Amanda Quick
41. Deception, Amanda Quick
i didn't read either of these during my last quick phase ... i am reading the third circle again, but i won't count it toward my total :)
41. Deception, Amanda Quick
i didn't read either of these during my last quick phase ... i am reading the third circle again, but i won't count it toward my total :)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I'VE MADE IT TO MY ORIGINAL GOAL!
40. Sizzle and Burn, Jayne Ann Krentz
Yay! I've read 40 books this year so far. I've excited to have made it to my goal number, though with the way I had been going earlier this year, like in the summer, I almost expected to reach it sooner. But life kind of gets in the way, you know? Work and television and errands and sometimes just not feeling like reading. I've learned to abandon books that don't make me want to pick them up at every opportunity, but it's hard when you're as picky as I am about authors ... sometimes I have to settle for what I've got. Anyway, I'm going to continue on with my revised goal of 52, which means 12 more books by June 1. It seems at once like a lot, and like nothing. It's going to help that i'm visiting dana in March -- plane travel = lots of reading time. Also I have $50 more to b&n from birthday :) so that's always helpful. AQ isn't coming out with a new one til April!!! :( but suz has been releasing old ones that can keep me through hahah (and i've fully got mar hooked on her, that makes three people so far I've gotten addicted to suz ... who's next??)
Anyway the book that got me to 40: Well ... the reason I got this one was because it was on the $5.99 shelf at b&n ... the one with the popular hardbacks they ordered too many of ... It's the book before "running hot" which I read a couple months ago (Another in the Arcane society novels) I ... I don't know. I readily admit it's the type of book I get teased for. Not in that it has a lot of sex, but that it isn't well-written like I mostly defend of my novels. But I keep reading these contemporary ones in this series. Like it carried my attention through the story ... even though it was meh. Again she has the characters fall in love too quickly. There goes any tension to carry the plot. The plot involved two different arcs that were separate, yet both important (props to her for not tying them together in an easy "twist" though) But it was hard to concentrate on one (i guess hard isn't the correct word ... annoying?) when the other one was running along in the back of my mind ... It also gave us two climaxes which is awkard as a reader i think ...
But with all that said, I still read it. And I'll probably read the next ones in her series as well ... I guess I'm a sucker for the arcane.
Yay! I've read 40 books this year so far. I've excited to have made it to my goal number, though with the way I had been going earlier this year, like in the summer, I almost expected to reach it sooner. But life kind of gets in the way, you know? Work and television and errands and sometimes just not feeling like reading. I've learned to abandon books that don't make me want to pick them up at every opportunity, but it's hard when you're as picky as I am about authors ... sometimes I have to settle for what I've got. Anyway, I'm going to continue on with my revised goal of 52, which means 12 more books by June 1. It seems at once like a lot, and like nothing. It's going to help that i'm visiting dana in March -- plane travel = lots of reading time. Also I have $50 more to b&n from birthday :) so that's always helpful. AQ isn't coming out with a new one til April!!! :( but suz has been releasing old ones that can keep me through hahah (and i've fully got mar hooked on her, that makes three people so far I've gotten addicted to suz ... who's next??)
Anyway the book that got me to 40: Well ... the reason I got this one was because it was on the $5.99 shelf at b&n ... the one with the popular hardbacks they ordered too many of ... It's the book before "running hot" which I read a couple months ago (Another in the Arcane society novels) I ... I don't know. I readily admit it's the type of book I get teased for. Not in that it has a lot of sex, but that it isn't well-written like I mostly defend of my novels. But I keep reading these contemporary ones in this series. Like it carried my attention through the story ... even though it was meh. Again she has the characters fall in love too quickly. There goes any tension to carry the plot. The plot involved two different arcs that were separate, yet both important (props to her for not tying them together in an easy "twist" though) But it was hard to concentrate on one (i guess hard isn't the correct word ... annoying?) when the other one was running along in the back of my mind ... It also gave us two climaxes which is awkard as a reader i think ...
But with all that said, I still read it. And I'll probably read the next ones in her series as well ... I guess I'm a sucker for the arcane.
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