Book review dump of doom

[kalquessa]

Okay, I haven't caught up with book reviews since...before Lent? That can't be right. Well anyway, a long time. So I'm going to just do these at the speed of light and just get it out of the way. I'm not posting reviews of everything I've read since Lent because first of all I do, contrary to popular belief, have a life and secondly I can't even

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[beanpot]

Er...hi...**waves**.

Aurora pointed you out to me regarding your stargate reviews and I saw your comments on the books so poking to say hi.

The Plum books only get better in that the supporting characters turn out to be much more awesome - Lulu the former Prostitute and Stephanie's grandma kill me dead with the laughter.

Laurie King's book, however, just get better. Have you read Anne Perry's newest series set in WW1? Very very good.

[kalquessa]

Welcome! Always fun to have more people to chat about books with!

Haven't read any Anne Perry, yet. I went through a mystery phase several years ago, but at the time my tastes were a lot pulpier so I read a lot of Elizabeth Peters (Mummies! Murder! Antiquities rings! Scandalous goings on in the Victorian era!) but when I tried Perry she didn't really snag me. I should give her another try, now that I'm back in the genre.

deep wizardry

[anonymous]

Don't miss Diane Duane's Deep Wizardry. I started reading these books many years ago when I was a librarian and I read some of the youth books so I could know which ones to recommend. The first one was good, but I truly loved Deep Wizardry. Many others follow, but it is still the best, I think.

If you try Anne Perry, try Breach of Contract--it's my favorite of all of hers. I go thru jags where I read her books, and then I go off of them an don't care about them that much.

I love Elizabeth Peters--they're a lot of fun, as are some of her Barbara Michaels ones (those tend to be more spooky/supernatural in the mystery). What can I say, I'm a former librarian who has read a LOT of books.

I hope you don't mind a stranger popping in--I found your lj somehow or other thru Stargate reading.

Melissa M.

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[kalquessa]

Will make a note to try Breach of Contract, thanks! And I definitely plan on reading Deep Wizardry.

Peters is good fun, isn't she? So fluffy, esp. the earlier Peabody books (the later ones got rather tangled with all the love triangles and whatnot and it all got a bit soapy for my taste, but I loved the earlier ones). I never tried anything but the Peabody books because at the time it was the Egyptology gimmick that was selling me, and I wasn't as interested in her other books, but I may have to look into them at some point, too.

And hey, thanks for stopping by and commenting! I love strangers popping in!

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[anonymous]

I'm thinking I was around 30 when I read the first Amelia Peabody book--I'd read her others before, and I'd read a lot of "gothics" up to that time, so it was so amusing to see the conventions of that genre being spoofed, but so enjoyably. She had a newsletter out for awhile, which I got for the library, and enjoyed reading, all about what she was doing in her life and what new book she was working on, etc. I am 56 now and while I still read a lot of mysteries, I don't read many of the gothic type anymore--well, actually there are very few of that sort being written anymore, at least as far as I know. There weren't the last few years I was a librarian, because many of our patrons used to complain about that

Re: deep wizardry

[kalquessa]

Yes, my generation of fans is very spoiled, isn't it? We can hop on the computer and have access to a bazillion and a half fics and we have easy access to fellows fans for the purpose of general squee and discussion. I can't imagine having to wait for fanfic to come in the mail, which is how some of my friends got their Trek fic back in the day. I salute you and your fellows, who had to work much harder at fandom than I ever have!