31. Into the Storm, Suzanne Brockmann
There are some books I've read so many times that I know the words on the next page before I flip it. This isn't one of them. I read this when it came out like three, four years ago and haven't again. Which is great, and interesting when I go back and read it.
Like for example, for two or three or four books ms. suz wants you to think she's going to put a certain two characters together. Like they're sam and alyssa and all they're doing is suffering before they get their happy ending (not in a dirty way, get your mind out of the gutter! lol) but we later (in one of her most recent ones) realize this is not the case. It adds a new interesting awareness to the reading, so that I can now read it differently and know what is actually important to pay attention to. Brilliant, suzanne, brilliant.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
My least favorite of the troubleshooters
30. Breaking point, Suzanne Brockmann
... but still of course amazing. This one has a weird time structure to it. With three distinct periods each getting play in the begining of the book. Evenutally it works its way into a continuous stream, but it was a little bit annoying. Mostly because I would get into one of the parts of the story and then BAM be thrown into the other, which was still good, but not what I was feeling. I love in this one too, how "the big attack" the one everyone fears hits and we're not part of it as readers. You know shit is going down with all the other major characters but all you have is what's happening with Jules, Max, Gina, Molly and Jones. It's kind of cool in a way I can't explain. Fun. Like tongue-in-cheek to herself almost.
OH, and to address miss. katie -- lol join the ranks babycakes. Quite honestly 2 books (that don't fit in to my preferred genre) out of thirty is branching out for me! haha I have been told all my life to branch out with my reading habits, and when I do it's usually good. I enjoy the book/s. But I love reading. I love reading for certain reasons and I know which books will make me just happy. Like just wonderfully happy. I smile my whole way through Suz's books. Or tear up. Yes it's beneficial to read different genres (honestly I want to check out some religion and/or WWII nonfictions once I get through my suzanne phase) but that's like ... school work. homework. I do it because I should. Not because I want to. And it's not like not trying a weird food (haha don't even get me started on that -- i am similarly stubborn there) because I've read a ton. Like a ton. Austen, Hemingway, J.D. Robb, Dan Brown (uggghghgh don't even get me started), Chinua Achebe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Phillip Pullman, Charlotte Bronte, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka, Lois Lowry, Lurlene McDaniel, every book ever edited by Salman Rushdie ... ETC, ETC, ETC, ETC ... etc. I know what I like, not because I haven't tried other things. I know what I like because I have.
Saying that, I am looking to expand -- like i said -- into the non-fiction genre. But that's going to be in a few books because I'm well addicted to my troubleshooters. I'm mostly through Jenk/Lindsey's then I'll probs read Ric/Annie's then Vinh/Hannah's then finally Decker/Tracey's ... these are all fun because they're more recent so I've only read them I think each once. Hoo-ra
til next time :) happy readings!
... but still of course amazing. This one has a weird time structure to it. With three distinct periods each getting play in the begining of the book. Evenutally it works its way into a continuous stream, but it was a little bit annoying. Mostly because I would get into one of the parts of the story and then BAM be thrown into the other, which was still good, but not what I was feeling. I love in this one too, how "the big attack" the one everyone fears hits and we're not part of it as readers. You know shit is going down with all the other major characters but all you have is what's happening with Jules, Max, Gina, Molly and Jones. It's kind of cool in a way I can't explain. Fun. Like tongue-in-cheek to herself almost.
OH, and to address miss. katie -- lol join the ranks babycakes. Quite honestly 2 books (that don't fit in to my preferred genre) out of thirty is branching out for me! haha I have been told all my life to branch out with my reading habits, and when I do it's usually good. I enjoy the book/s. But I love reading. I love reading for certain reasons and I know which books will make me just happy. Like just wonderfully happy. I smile my whole way through Suz's books. Or tear up. Yes it's beneficial to read different genres (honestly I want to check out some religion and/or WWII nonfictions once I get through my suzanne phase) but that's like ... school work. homework. I do it because I should. Not because I want to. And it's not like not trying a weird food (haha don't even get me started on that -- i am similarly stubborn there) because I've read a ton. Like a ton. Austen, Hemingway, J.D. Robb, Dan Brown (uggghghgh don't even get me started), Chinua Achebe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien, Phillip Pullman, Charlotte Bronte, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka, Lois Lowry, Lurlene McDaniel, every book ever edited by Salman Rushdie ... ETC, ETC, ETC, ETC ... etc. I know what I like, not because I haven't tried other things. I know what I like because I have.
Saying that, I am looking to expand -- like i said -- into the non-fiction genre. But that's going to be in a few books because I'm well addicted to my troubleshooters. I'm mostly through Jenk/Lindsey's then I'll probs read Ric/Annie's then Vinh/Hannah's then finally Decker/Tracey's ... these are all fun because they're more recent so I've only read them I think each once. Hoo-ra
til next time :) happy readings!
Friday, September 4, 2009
the flu makes me read slower
29. Hot target, Suzanne Brockmann
Wonderful, and it's not one of my favorites so I don't read it as often; so I actually didn't remember some of the events that happened. But it took like three days of reading, and I blame it on the flipping FLU. oh well. on to max and gina's!
:)
Wonderful, and it's not one of my favorites so I don't read it as often; so I actually didn't remember some of the events that happened. But it took like three days of reading, and I blame it on the flipping FLU. oh well. on to max and gina's!
:)
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