Well, Jennifer Crusie “Manhunting” was quite fun. I was laughing hysterically while reading those disastrous dates Kate had.
Then it was a YA by Kaz Delaney “My Life as a Snow Bunny”, young love, unfeeling parents, and all that.
“Raintree: Hunted” by Linda Winstead Jones is part of a trilogy about Raintree family, magic users for generation. Hunted is the story of Gideon, a homicide detective and electricity-controller, and yes; he can talk to ghosts!
My side reading was “Vampire Academy” by Richelle Mead. It’s about a living vampire girl (or Moroi) Lissa who can heal, and her guardian and best friend Dhampire Rose. The story was very high-school drama with a twist because the characters were super-naturals. I liked Mead’s other book “Succubus Blues” much better. Can’t wait for the second book “Succubus on Top”.
What else? Nothing, only worrying about start of the term and all the hard classes I’m taking.
I’m going shopping with a friend this afternoon, and am happy that I’ve focused on the accessories. Belts, scarves, hats, bags are much more fun and you can play with colors better than buying a bright pink skirt or blouse and wondering what to match it with. What I need is a bright orange belt, a purple one, a beret and a great bag. I’m still looking for the handbag of my dreams!
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
A giant of a book!
Well it’s books again: “Jacob” by Jacquelyn Frank is the first book of The Nightwalkers series. Jacob is a demon and not any demon either, he is the Enforcer, the one who monitors others of his kind and protects humans from his people’s advances. But one cold night when he is out on a mission, a human girl falls from a window five story high and right into his embrace. Well, who’s gonna protect whom? That’s the question. I liked this book so much I’m going to find the second book of the series “Gideon”.
Then it was “Beneath the skin” by Savannah Russe. It is the third book of Darkwing Chronicles. In the first book “Beyond the Pale” we know Daphne Urban, daughter of a medieval pop and a vampire. Daphne has lived these last couple of centuries in solitude and away from vampire community and her political mother Mar Mar. Now she is invited to work at a governmental anti-terrorist agency in a team of vampires, team Darkwing. She meets Darius a spy/ vampire hunter and falls in love, saves the day (or night!) and turns Darius into vampire. In the second book “Past Redemption”, team Darkwing is investigating a new drug and the mafia who sell it. Daphne loses a team-mate and befriends a new guy, a black Irish cutie. In “Beneath the skin” Daphne is trying to get over Darius, know that Irish guy better, investigate a strange Countess and steal some important document for Mar Mar, and oh yes; help prevent an assassination. She is uber busy, but not enough to avoid a couple of mouth full of someone’s blood! The fourth book of the series “In the Blood” will be out in November.
Next it was “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett turn. I love love love his Disc World novels. So funny and entertaining. In this book Granny Weatherwax and the other two witches of Ramtop are trying NOT to meddle in the affair of kingdom and they certainly are NOT helping anyone to be the new King. To know more about the Disc world and its characters check his website. Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. He mixes humor, political and philosophical views, and references to classic literature and mythology into amazingly deep and funny stories. His latest book of Disc World series is “Making Money” which should hit the book stores pretty soon.
After all these great books, I checked a few Feng Shui and Astrology books, got my birth chart sorted and finished and am planning to start the latest book of Jennifer Crusie “Manhunting”.
I received my first text book of this quarter today, a massive 1100 page giant of a book on Advanced Engineering Math. I’m loosing my nerves and panicking really bad just by looking at it! I need to go shopping!
Then it was “Beneath the skin” by Savannah Russe. It is the third book of Darkwing Chronicles. In the first book “Beyond the Pale” we know Daphne Urban, daughter of a medieval pop and a vampire. Daphne has lived these last couple of centuries in solitude and away from vampire community and her political mother Mar Mar. Now she is invited to work at a governmental anti-terrorist agency in a team of vampires, team Darkwing. She meets Darius a spy/ vampire hunter and falls in love, saves the day (or night!) and turns Darius into vampire. In the second book “Past Redemption”, team Darkwing is investigating a new drug and the mafia who sell it. Daphne loses a team-mate and befriends a new guy, a black Irish cutie. In “Beneath the skin” Daphne is trying to get over Darius, know that Irish guy better, investigate a strange Countess and steal some important document for Mar Mar, and oh yes; help prevent an assassination. She is uber busy, but not enough to avoid a couple of mouth full of someone’s blood! The fourth book of the series “In the Blood” will be out in November.
Next it was “Wyrd Sisters” by Terry Pratchett turn. I love love love his Disc World novels. So funny and entertaining. In this book Granny Weatherwax and the other two witches of Ramtop are trying NOT to meddle in the affair of kingdom and they certainly are NOT helping anyone to be the new King. To know more about the Disc world and its characters check his website. Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. He mixes humor, political and philosophical views, and references to classic literature and mythology into amazingly deep and funny stories. His latest book of Disc World series is “Making Money” which should hit the book stores pretty soon.
After all these great books, I checked a few Feng Shui and Astrology books, got my birth chart sorted and finished and am planning to start the latest book of Jennifer Crusie “Manhunting”.
I received my first text book of this quarter today, a massive 1100 page giant of a book on Advanced Engineering Math. I’m loosing my nerves and panicking really bad just by looking at it! I need to go shopping!
Saturday, September 22, 2007
In a hurry!
Two weeks without a new post. Huh? I’ve been lazy, What you can tell about that?!
OK, for first 4-5 days after finishing first three books of Anne Shirley adventures I wasn’t reading anything, just eating chocolate and fighting my mad cravings for shopping! Then I started reading “Anne of Windy Poplars”, “Anne’s House of Dreams”, "Anne of Ingleside”, and “Rainbow Valley” from L.M. Montgomery. I loved following Anne’s stories, but as the pace is slow and I was reading slower, It took a long time to finish!
Beside that, I finished a couple of etiquette books by Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh, “The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum” and its sequel, “The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Grace under Pressure”. Some of the rules had me laughing feverously like how to manage love affairs with grace and manners! Ha ha ha!
Another book which I leafed through and got bored with was “Girl Anatomy” by Rebecca Bloom, the story of Lily’s heartaches and loves and basically her being without a backbone!
“What the lady wants” by Jennifer Crusie is the story of Mitch -a Sam Spade wanna-be - and his great big case, catching the killer whom Mae Belle (a femme fatal) hires him to find. Fun, light, happy-ending, like all Jennifer Crusie’s books.
I finished “Over the Moon” a collection of four novellas by Angela Knight, MarryJanice Davidson, Virginia Kantra, and Sunny. Loved two of the stories more than others: "Moon Dance” by Knight and “Mona Lisa Three” by sunny were fantastic, imaginative, funny, and sexy. Kick-ass heroines and handsome heroes, what else you wish for in a novella?
My side-reading had been “Dead Girls are Easy” by Terri Garey the story of a girl who has a near-death experience and after that sees ghosts (and just has to help them go to light) and “Changeling” by Yasmine Galenorn the second book of The Sisters of the Moona series featuring three half blooded Fae sisters. This book is about Dalilah the second sister who turns into a tabby cat when she is stressed!
Autumn is finally here and I have just a few days before start of the term to finish my shopping and get ready for school. I don't think I have much opportiunity for reading books when the term starts.
OK, for first 4-5 days after finishing first three books of Anne Shirley adventures I wasn’t reading anything, just eating chocolate and fighting my mad cravings for shopping! Then I started reading “Anne of Windy Poplars”, “Anne’s House of Dreams”, "Anne of Ingleside”, and “Rainbow Valley” from L.M. Montgomery. I loved following Anne’s stories, but as the pace is slow and I was reading slower, It took a long time to finish!
Beside that, I finished a couple of etiquette books by Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh, “The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum” and its sequel, “The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Grace under Pressure”. Some of the rules had me laughing feverously like how to manage love affairs with grace and manners! Ha ha ha!
Another book which I leafed through and got bored with was “Girl Anatomy” by Rebecca Bloom, the story of Lily’s heartaches and loves and basically her being without a backbone!
“What the lady wants” by Jennifer Crusie is the story of Mitch -a Sam Spade wanna-be - and his great big case, catching the killer whom Mae Belle (a femme fatal) hires him to find. Fun, light, happy-ending, like all Jennifer Crusie’s books.
I finished “Over the Moon” a collection of four novellas by Angela Knight, MarryJanice Davidson, Virginia Kantra, and Sunny. Loved two of the stories more than others: "Moon Dance” by Knight and “Mona Lisa Three” by sunny were fantastic, imaginative, funny, and sexy. Kick-ass heroines and handsome heroes, what else you wish for in a novella?
My side-reading had been “Dead Girls are Easy” by Terri Garey the story of a girl who has a near-death experience and after that sees ghosts (and just has to help them go to light) and “Changeling” by Yasmine Galenorn the second book of The Sisters of the Moona series featuring three half blooded Fae sisters. This book is about Dalilah the second sister who turns into a tabby cat when she is stressed!
Autumn is finally here and I have just a few days before start of the term to finish my shopping and get ready for school. I don't think I have much opportiunity for reading books when the term starts.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Anne spelled with an e!
Been reading three first books of Anne Shirley series by L. M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables", "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of the Island". The humor, morals, and simplicity of the stories fascinated me but truth to be told, I liked the TV series better! Although it hasn’t stopped me from putting hold on the rest of the series! Anne’s childhood character is so perfect and cute and her dialogs so un-child-like that I wondered if she wasn’t knowingly manipulating adults around her, but NO! Such wild accusations are wrong concerning little Miss Shirley!
Anyway I adored her melodramas. She is a perfect drama queen. I wish this concept was known when Ms. Montgomery was alive.
After all the froufrou and cuteness on Anne’s adventures, I spend a day reading “Death by Pantyhose” by Laura Levine. The sixth book of Jaine Austen series, a freelance poor journalist who has low confidence and high appetite and is solving crime mysteries in her spare time. Way tiresome, very cliché, unbelievably dull!
My new discovery is Trader Joe’s Belgian Chocolate Hazelnut “Seashells”, a box of twenty chocolate in shapes of shells and seahorse and starfish. Very cute, uber yummy!
Anyway I adored her melodramas. She is a perfect drama queen. I wish this concept was known when Ms. Montgomery was alive.
After all the froufrou and cuteness on Anne’s adventures, I spend a day reading “Death by Pantyhose” by Laura Levine. The sixth book of Jaine Austen series, a freelance poor journalist who has low confidence and high appetite and is solving crime mysteries in her spare time. Way tiresome, very cliché, unbelievably dull!
My new discovery is Trader Joe’s Belgian Chocolate Hazelnut “Seashells”, a box of twenty chocolate in shapes of shells and seahorse and starfish. Very cute, uber yummy!
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
I’m somehow stocked with Young Adult books and although I’m enjoying these books, I’m getting a little sick of all these nice cute puppy love! (Hooom, feels like eating too many sweets!)
Anyway, I read “Spin Control” by Niki Burnham. It’s the second book of Valerie Winslow adventures in a small European principality, the first being “Royally Jacked”.
Then it was “Ripped at the Seams” by Nancy Krulik, the story of a small town girl who goes to New York with dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
And last but not least, “Pants on fire” by Meg Cabot. Katie has a perfect existence (a little dishonest maybe) in her sport crazed town starting junior year of high school when someone from her past (OK, eight grade!) comes back to town and into her life.
Not one single mind challenging book, I tell you; but my mind is going to be challenged enough with term starting in a couple of weeks!
Anyway, I read “Spin Control” by Niki Burnham. It’s the second book of Valerie Winslow adventures in a small European principality, the first being “Royally Jacked”.
Then it was “Ripped at the Seams” by Nancy Krulik, the story of a small town girl who goes to New York with dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
And last but not least, “Pants on fire” by Meg Cabot. Katie has a perfect existence (a little dishonest maybe) in her sport crazed town starting junior year of high school when someone from her past (OK, eight grade!) comes back to town and into her life.
Not one single mind challenging book, I tell you; but my mind is going to be challenged enough with term starting in a couple of weeks!
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Me, myself and books!
After my Harry Potter marathon, I worked for a couple of days on finishing a report for school. Remember that olive oil thing? Yeah, it’s done and gone (finally)!!! In my break times I finished “Blood Lines” by Eileen Wilks. Book three of a series when super-naturals are out in the open and Gifted people (magical) help FBI fight crimes and werewolves roam in Washington DC!
Then I started “The witch of Portobello” by Paulo Coelho. It is the story of a (real) gifted woman, told by people who knew her. Despite all the talk about greatness of this girl (Athena or Shrine), my take of her character was of some one very self center, showy, and spoiled but with great charisma. Anyway, that’s my opinion; you can read the book and fall for the girl! I’m starting to think Coelho’s glorious days of story telling are behind him. His last couple of books have left a lot to be desired (compare to Alchemist or Brida).
Have I told you how much I love Jasper Fforde’s work? I can say it again, I love his books! I read “First among Sequels” from Thursday Next series with incredible speed and truly enjoyed it. In this book, Thursday is retired from SpecOps and is working in a carpet store. Yeah, don’t believe it, it’s a cover! She still has her Jurisdiction duties in the Book World, monitors Goliath projects, communicates with her genius uncle Mycroft (the fact that he died six years ago is irrelevant!) and tries to move her lazy smelly teenage son from bed and into career world. She also has to deal with one of her daughters constantly absent, two text characters for apprentices, and Time running out and people getting addicted to dumb TV shows (a lot of reality TV)! Hey, she is a kick ass literature detective, she can do it!
Else? Ah, do you remember that three Salem witches? Last book “The Scott, The Witch, and the wardrobe”? Annette Blair has started a new series on triplet sisters of Victoria, Harmony, Destiny, and Storm. The first book “Sex and Psychic witch” is about Harmony. She buys a vintage gown, finds a ring, and sees a ghost and goes to send a century old ghost into light. The finding of a cute guy is just the icing on the cake!
Yeah, yeah, I’ve been really busy. How did you know?!
Then I started “The witch of Portobello” by Paulo Coelho. It is the story of a (real) gifted woman, told by people who knew her. Despite all the talk about greatness of this girl (Athena or Shrine), my take of her character was of some one very self center, showy, and spoiled but with great charisma. Anyway, that’s my opinion; you can read the book and fall for the girl! I’m starting to think Coelho’s glorious days of story telling are behind him. His last couple of books have left a lot to be desired (compare to Alchemist or Brida).
Have I told you how much I love Jasper Fforde’s work? I can say it again, I love his books! I read “First among Sequels” from Thursday Next series with incredible speed and truly enjoyed it. In this book, Thursday is retired from SpecOps and is working in a carpet store. Yeah, don’t believe it, it’s a cover! She still has her Jurisdiction duties in the Book World, monitors Goliath projects, communicates with her genius uncle Mycroft (the fact that he died six years ago is irrelevant!) and tries to move her lazy smelly teenage son from bed and into career world. She also has to deal with one of her daughters constantly absent, two text characters for apprentices, and Time running out and people getting addicted to dumb TV shows (a lot of reality TV)! Hey, she is a kick ass literature detective, she can do it!
Else? Ah, do you remember that three Salem witches? Last book “The Scott, The Witch, and the wardrobe”? Annette Blair has started a new series on triplet sisters of Victoria, Harmony, Destiny, and Storm. The first book “Sex and Psychic witch” is about Harmony. She buys a vintage gown, finds a ring, and sees a ghost and goes to send a century old ghost into light. The finding of a cute guy is just the icing on the cake!
Yeah, yeah, I’ve been really busy. How did you know?!
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