Good News Friday - Outlander Edition

[brickhousewench]

The stretch of construction that I just can’t avoid because it’s on my main route to and from everywhere is finally done. The road finally got paved last week (just a bit late, due to crazy rain that delayed work a couple of days in June). And they finally put up a sign to say what they’re building on the corner. It’s going to be a branch of one

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[malterre]

Great GNF! Glad that work (and commuting) is finally better and i totally liked Carol Rossetti on Facebook, she has some stuff in Spanish as well.

[brickhousewench]

It's been a pretty good week! Which always makes it easier to write GNF! =D

[guy_todd]

I have never heard of "Outlander"-until now! Sounds like a good read.

Highly recommended!

[brickhousewench]

It really is a word of mouth book. I was in the Babylon 5 AOL chat room (I know, I just dated myself there) and someone mentioned it. EVERYONE in the room (except me) had read it and raved about it, so I tracked it down. It was initially sold as a romance novel, but reviewed in Locus (as a science fiction book) and now it lives in general fiction. Really, how do you categorize time traveling historical fiction about a woman married to two different men in two different centuries?

Diana Gabaldon is one of the very very few people writing historical fiction that does it well enough that I have no complaints about her books. She takes 3-4 years to write each one, because she's doing the research. And they're ripping good yarns, each one of them.

[guy_todd]

Well then, it's on my list! ;-)

[sunnybea]

Outlander has been mentioned to me several times by different people over the last 10-15 years. Somehow, I've never gotten around to it.

I'll have to add it to my list (I have a list on my smartphone now) ... it'll be more visible that way and I might even get to it! Sounds like good winter night reading.

(Of course, I always think of the Jim Caviezel movie ... it's so bad it's wonderful. I love it).

[brickhousewench]

*chuckles* I think I discovered that Jim Caviezel movie because I thought it was this Outlander!

ETA - The books are very good. Highly recommended!

[allgudallthetim]

I will have to add this to my list, as well. Right now, I am in Hercule Poirot Land and I am in them middle of Murder in Mesopotamia! I have 2 more HP's on my night table and I really want to read them all (I hear there are about 70 of them!)

[brickhousewench]

Not all of Dame Agatha's books are Hercule Poirot. She also has Miss Marple, and (my favs) Tommy and Tuppence. But yeah, she's got like 70 - 80 books.

The Outlander series has about 8 books (and a few books about side characters). I've been holding off re-reading them again (because it's going to be a time suck, I can't put them down). But I might have to give in and start a re-read this weekend.