I was in the mood for a light, fun read this week, so I checked out Joanne Fluke’s Cherry Cheesecake Murder–a read as sweet as the desert after which it was named.
The little town of Lake Eden gets caught up in a blur of excitement when a famous Hollywood director decides to film on Main [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘General Fiction’
November 11, 2009
with cherries on top
November 2, 2009
a mystery and a romance
Finished reading Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at long last. I picked this one up while browsing the shelves at the library and decided to give it a try. Other than Jane Eyre, I’d never read any of the Brontës (though Wuthering Heights has been on the TBR pile for a while).
Tenant is [...]
October 15, 2009
What’s your favorite book?
It’s always hard for me to answer when someone asks, “So, what’s your favorite book?” It’s never a matter of not having a favorite, the thing is that I have too many. The idea that someone can have a single favorite book seems sad to me–there are so many wonderful books to experience, how can [...]
October 11, 2009
a prophecy is a prophecy
I finished reading Child of the Prophecy, the final installment in Juliet Marillier’s Sevenwaters trilogy, yesterday afternoon.
The trilogy follows three generations of the Sevenwaters’s clan, starting with a curse laid on the children of Colum of Sevenwaters by the Lady Oognah, a sorceress descended from a faerie cast out from among the Fair Folk.
Granddaughter to [...]
September 23, 2009
(s)heroes
I’ve received some great recommendations and discovered some wonderful reads as part of my search for fantasy featuring strong female protagonists—the kind who are willing to take up a sword and fight as well as any of the male heroes that abound in fantasy fiction. It’s difficult finding these characters; though there are a lot [...]
July 29, 2009
death by chocolate
While on my quest for that elusive element in fantasy fiction–the strong female protagonist (or girls who do things)–I was introduced to Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery & Cecilia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot a magical romance set in Regency era England. Caught up in the magical machinations of their country neighbor, Sir [...]
July 16, 2009
[Queen] Elizabeth and the Fair Folk
I tried, I really did, but I could not finish reading Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis’s By Slanderous Tongues. I was in the mood for a fantasy read and received a few recommendations on Yahoo! Answers, and Lackey was recommended by more than one. I know she’s really popular, so I was hopeful when I [...]
April 22, 2009
Springtime in Paris
For four months I have been slowly gnawing away at my rope till it has finally frayed and parted. All that was needed was simply that the gaoler should carelessly leave the prisoner unguarded. Once his back was turned she became aware both of the horror of the prison and of light shining through the [...]
April 3, 2009
from the ashes
I was introduced to the works of Gail Tsukiyama a little over a year ago when I signed up to take a course on character analysis. After reading The Samurai’s Garden, I was eager to read more of Tsukiyama’s works but became sidetracked with other books in the “to read” pile(s). Last week, I finally [...]
March 26, 2009
in-betweens
I’m reading Collette’s Complete Claudine but despite Claudine’s charm, the narrative is starting to drag a bit and I’ve decided to take a break from Collette.
I just finished reading Jane Harris’s The Observations and Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
The Observations is similar in tone to Sarah Water’s Fingersmith but the intrigue [...]
