Friday, June 19, 2009

so i lied a little

lol well not really, it's just that I fell out of the mood for reading the Deadly Series ... maybe next time I go home, I'll pick them all up and do a Deadly marathon (the library only had two of the books, and my favorites are like the last coulple, when Calder makes the scene ... soooo) anyway ... I did finish Wicked Widow, so I'll go from there.

11. Wicked Widow, Amanda Quick
I had a little more trouble getting started with this one ... probably because I finally have cable and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (maybe my most favorite show ever in the entire history of the world ever) was on. (Ohhhh it was soooo good ... unfortunately one of the best dancers seems a little ... annoying, but we'll see I'm sure it will be a fantastic season!)
Anyway it took about 70 pages-ish, but then it grabbed ahold and pulled me in like always : ) and it was wonderful and fun and easy and romantic, and those are the best kind of books sometimes aren't they? Anyway I had resolved to stop my quick obsession (and I am going to!) but at the end, I started thinking of the others of hers that I haven't read since I started the quick marathon ... including my second favorite of hers! but oh well ... I think it is time to move on. I'm going to check out Evanovich's #14 (i've all ready placed a hold on #15 YAYYY) and then go from there! I know Katie just read Water for Elephants and recommends it -- i believe -- maybe I'll try it eventually, I know mom read that a while back and thought it was decent ... who knows, you know me I really don't deviate from my genre much.

anyway, til next time, happy readings : )

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

perfectly perfect : )

10. The Perfect Poison, Amanda Quick
AHHHHH I was so ridiculously excited yesterday (I think I actually startled/amused the librarian) because when I went to check out, they told me they had received the copy of miss. quick's latest hardback that I had ordered about a week ago. I literarly clapped, I was so stoked! So I immediately scrapped my other plans for the day -- I think they involved me being somewhat productive and psh, who wants that? -- and read it straight through : ) And it was so wonderful! I love every one of her books; her characters fit somewhat of the same mold (I mean I've read ten of her novels in two weeks, I'm going to notice the similarities) but they never feel cookie cutter, like Nora's for example. There's just something unique in each one, and it's lovely. And of course it was an Arcane Society book, and oh how I do love my series. And the founding of Jones and Jones! I think after I turned the last page I had a smile on my face for like ten minutes ... I love it. Anyway taking a day off from reading and actually being productive ... I assembled my desk all by my lonesome! and it's still standing (along with a particularly large bookcase I put together on Saturday! I may actually have some handyman skills ... lol)
But Wicked Widow is officialy next on the list and I think my last Quick book, at least for a little ... I checked out B. Joyce's first in her Deadly Series ... and for some reason I don't think I've ever read it, so whoo hoo.

til next time, happy readings : )

Monday, June 15, 2009

A little more quick

I remembered the 8th book, so I'll start there:

8. The River Knows, Amanda Quick
9. Second Sight, Amanda Quick
it had been a little while since I'd read S.S. and I'd only read it once so it was lovely rereading it ... there were parts I had forgotten and it was very much an enjoyable experience delving back into the world of the 1st book in her Arcane Society novels : ) in fact last night I was dreadfully tired (after a day trip to Ithaca -- it truly is gorgeous!) and I wanted to go to bed, but I was so into S.S. I just kept reading into the wee hours. I love when you read a book like that, you truly don't want to put it down. And I love/hate finishing a book like that, because it is so happy (please I only read books with happy endings ... do you know me at all lol) and sad because it's like you've just finished a life and it's time to move on ... my original quote at the begining of the blog is really how I feel when I finish a book I love ... it's like saying goodbye to a friend

Anyway please feel free (as Tim so wonderfully did!) to recommend books ... though forewarning, I am extremely picky ... I know what I like and like I tend to be stubborn about branching out ... why should I when I so love the books I read. But I'm sure I will at least take it into consideration : )

On to Wicked Widow Ibelieve, it may be my last Quick book ... I'm feeling a yearning to read Brenda Joyce's Deadly series for some reason ... but alas I left them at home ... doesn't it always happen that way?!?! perhaps I'll be able to hunt them down here (at the library), otherwise I think Evanovich awaits (so excited for #15 on June 23!)

'til next time, happy readings

Friday, June 12, 2009

And so it begins ...

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." Paul Sweeny

Someone said to me recently that they would be interested in knowing how many books I read a year. (I read a lot, btw) So, I figured it would be a nice little experiment to keep track of it. And because blogs are just so hot right now -- and I wouldn't be in danger of loosing it (I also ... um ... misplace things a lot) I figured why not do it online.

So anyway, I am actually going to try to do this ... record what I read for the next 365 days ... well less now since I technically started June 1. I would like to try to read 40 books, but we'll see, that might be overly ambitious, since I have to do a lot of reading for work. Anyway, I read mostly romance/thrillers. I have 6-7 favorite authors and I tend not to deviate, also I reread like it's my job ... but I won't repeat any this year from when I start. (probably lol).

And so it begins ...

June 1.
While I won't update every day, I'll try to give a general sense of the time ... and I started keeping tack June 1.

1. I Thee Wed, Amanda Quick
So I love Amanda Qucik, so much. Her characters are so unique, and somehow she always manages to create a compelling relationship between her hero and heroine, an intriguing mystery and a glittering world of London society in the 1800s.

2. Mistress, Amanda Quick
(i'm in an amanda quick phase ... these are all going to be amanda quick, that's how i roll) Maybe one of my favorite books ever. I'm not sure why but everytime I read it, I enjoy it just as much -- if in a different way -- as the first time. It involves a blackmail plot and a mistress-in-name-only (at least for a little while ;p) and an Earl that's been burned by love. Even though it sounds silly, it really is such fun!

3. Reckless, Amanda Quick
4. Rendezvous, Amanda Quick
5. Ravished, Amanda Quick
6. The Third Circle, Amanda Quick
Her second to most recent one (the most recent one in paperback) and it was wonderful. She's expanded into the paranormal aspect (it seems to be very in right now to do so ...) but she does it in a way that is not jarring to those of us who are not really into that kind of thing. I'm not entirely sure I like the new era ... her others have always been set around the time around the war with Napolean ... London society before 1820 ... and this is set "late in the reign of Queen Victoria" ... there are interesting aspects, to be sure, I guess I just have to have a couple more to adjsut ... I love her older ones so much it's hard to give that up ... but I understand she needs to expand or she'll just become Nora Roberts lol.
7. Scandal, Amanda Quick
8. (I'm missing one, and I can't remember which ... I'll fill it in later)

I'm checking Second Sight and Wicked Widow out of the library, and I placed a hold on her most recent hardback ... but after those I'll probably move on. Janet Evanovich is releasing #15 in her plum series June 23, so I'll probably at least read Fearless Fourteen sometime soon.
Til next time ... happy reading