Day 07 - Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise"Just having you on! It was all a dream!" or "The Strong, Manly, Reliant Man has arrived -- the heroine and supporting cast can relax now!" The former feels like an utter cop-out nine times out of ten, and the latter annoys me because a lot of ( Read more... )

Day 06 - Favorite book of your favorite series OR your favorite book of all time

Don't have just one, but for the intent of picking a favorite, I'll say Elizabeth Pope's The Perilous Gard. Tam Lin retelling set in the last days of Bloody Mary's reign, and oh, did I think Kate was wonderful. I'd picked up my cousin's copy at random (she was ( Read more... )

Day 05 - A book or series you hate

I never did understand Gavin Mendes and 1421. He states his opinions as if they're facts, and doesn't even really do a lot of backup research. There's something to be said about an author who published his work to spite the leading scholars in his field (who'd devoted their lives to their studies), saying "It's ( Read more... )

Day 04 - Your favorite book or series ever

I don't have just one, honestly. I still love Paddington and Pooh...Girl of the Limberlost, Tales of a Chinese Grandmother, the Anne books, almost all of Alcott's work. I have my copies in a special, glass-doored bookcase, safe from roving kitties, and easy to grab from if something happened to make ( Read more... )

Day 03 - The best book you've read in the last 12 months.

Phew!

Um.

...um.

After a lot of digging through monthly book-lists, I think it would probably have to be Julia Child's My Life in France. Alex Prud'Homme interviewed Child extensively and did a lot of the book's legwork, but the voice is all Child. It's like reading a bunch of letters ( Read more... )

Day 02 - A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about.

After some debating, I managed to get the field narrowed down to three series (serii?): Rosemary and Rue/A Local Habitation/An Artificial Night, the first three books from Seanan McGuire's Toby Daye series (the only ones currently published)...My Lady Judge/A Secret and ( Read more... )

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Day 01 - A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

I've toyed with the idea of writing a letter to Stephen Lawhead and saying "Please won't you write another book in your Robin Hood series?" I've also thought about writing to Rhys Bowen and telling her "Okay. I ( Read more... )