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- Wed February 24th, 2010, 3:48 pm
- Forum: America
- Topic: Sara Donati
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20480
I just finished the last novel in this series, "The Endless Forest." It was a bit of a letdown after the nonstop action of the earlier books, but that's probably fine for a series finale. I had a hard time remembering which characters were which at first, but quickly got back into the hang of it. Ev...
- Tue February 16th, 2010, 5:30 pm
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: February 2010: The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2210
This took a while to catch my attention, but I found myself turning the pages pretty fast after about the halfway point. I had to make a point of slowing myself down because the language was so rich. I'll have to look at my library binding (US) - I remember there being drawings of fireworks on the p...
- Mon February 8th, 2010, 3:04 am
- Forum: Member Reading Logs - 2010
- Topic: Ellen's Reads 2010
- Replies: 1
- Views: 723
- Tue January 12th, 2010, 9:44 pm
- Forum: By Author's Last Name M-Q
- Topic: The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6047
Please pardon me raising this thread from the dead, but I just finished The Heretic Queen and wanted to say how much I enjoyed it. I watched "The Ten Commandments" a lot as a child, and it was interesting to see that storyline from a completely different angle. (A very different angle.) The authors'...
- Mon January 4th, 2010, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Member Reading Logs - 2010
- Topic: Ellen's Reads 2010
- Replies: 1
- Views: 723
Ellen's Reads 2010
Starting off fresh! January: 1. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel 2. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown 3. The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton (audiobook) 4. The Book of Unholy Mischief, by Elle Newmark 5. The Heretic Queen, by Michelle Moran 6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson 7. Hugh and Be...
- Tue December 29th, 2009, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: December 2009: What are you reading?
- Replies: 251
- Views: 14325
[quote=""Susan""]Today I am going to start The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowel which is billed as a pop history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. One review says, "The writer's irreverance and lack of pretense shine through as she makes even Pilgrim theology entertaining history." My daughter, who alw...
- Tue December 29th, 2009, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Book Buddies
- Topic: outlander series
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3826
I recently talked my mom into giving the series a second try on audiobook. I'll tell you what I told her - in my opinion, things get better after "Outlander." There's a lot to like in that book, but I felt like all they really did was fight and have sex. The later books, in which Claire and Jamie ar...
- Tue December 15th, 2009, 7:50 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Some authors just can't keep their hands off the keyboards..
- Replies: 60
- Views: 3484
- Tue December 1st, 2009, 3:11 am
- Forum: By Author's Last Name M-Q
- Topic: The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5265
I finished all three books a little before Thanksgiving - what a read! I really liked the interplay between the younger Harry and Isembard, as well as the resolution between the two. It was dramatic and powerful and real, and totally not what one would expect from a novel of this sort. I agree that ...
- Tue December 1st, 2009, 2:56 am
- Forum: By Author's Last Name G-L
- Topic: The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5397
I just finished this and really enjoyed it. The title kept popping up in recommendations and on here, so I finally bit the bullet and ordered it from Amazon Canada. Totally worth it, though! It's lighter than a lot of HF that I seem to read normally, but there's nothing wrong with that. The present-...