2014 reading, July
Read 30 books (unless I finish another tonight), very few worth commenting on here.
1. The Fords, An American Epic - Robert Collier & Peter Horowitz. Much more focus on the family post- Henry I, and much less dry.
2. Cindy Spencer Pape's steampunk series is very similar to Shelley Adina's steampunk series, but enjoyably mindless.
3. Pass on Christina A. Burke's Queenie Baby series unless she gets an editor for spelling & punctuation. I liked the plotting, but couldn't give the rest more than a D+.
4. Caroline Dunford also needs an editor, but not as badly.
5. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard. I think a comma should go after Medicine. But I learned more about President Garfield than I had learned from C-Span's First Ladies series, which I also recommend, still available on the website. Must also look at the Presidents series. Guilleau was truly insane but didn't present as such when examined earlier in his life. Tragic.
6. Death Come Quickly - Susan Wittig Albert Up to her usual excellent standard.
7. Meg, I finally got around to Much Ado In Montana & enjoyed the parallels with Shakespeare; up to your standard.
8. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus - Donna Andrews Feral emus in central Virginia, loosed when the owner went bankrupt. Meg's grandfather's wildlife posse called in to capture & get to a wildlife sanctuary; the woman supposedly doing the calling in is Meg's unmarried grandmother's cousin, in peril from a neighbor. Another family reunion! Enjoyed a ton.
1. The Fords, An American Epic - Robert Collier & Peter Horowitz. Much more focus on the family post- Henry I, and much less dry.
2. Cindy Spencer Pape's steampunk series is very similar to Shelley Adina's steampunk series, but enjoyably mindless.
3. Pass on Christina A. Burke's Queenie Baby series unless she gets an editor for spelling & punctuation. I liked the plotting, but couldn't give the rest more than a D+.
4. Caroline Dunford also needs an editor, but not as badly.
5. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard. I think a comma should go after Medicine. But I learned more about President Garfield than I had learned from C-Span's First Ladies series, which I also recommend, still available on the website. Must also look at the Presidents series. Guilleau was truly insane but didn't present as such when examined earlier in his life. Tragic.
6. Death Come Quickly - Susan Wittig Albert Up to her usual excellent standard.
7. Meg, I finally got around to Much Ado In Montana & enjoyed the parallels with Shakespeare; up to your standard.
8. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus - Donna Andrews Feral emus in central Virginia, loosed when the owner went bankrupt. Meg's grandfather's wildlife posse called in to capture & get to a wildlife sanctuary; the woman supposedly doing the calling in is Meg's unmarried grandmother's cousin, in peril from a neighbor. Another family reunion! Enjoyed a ton.