Katherine's list

[KW]

I bagged the Lord of Scoundrels and am now reading The RAven Prince which is OK... not written terribly beautifully or engagingly but...and I seriously doubt I'll stay with it. I can already tell.

[Weave]

The Kite Runner is such a good book, sad, hard-hitting, but full of warmth at the same time, I really enjoyed it.

[KW]

Yes, it remains one of my fav reads of last year.

[KW]

Well, I SKIMMED through the end of the RAven Prince just so I could say I'd finished the danged thing but it was LAME. L - A - M - E.

 

I'm onto Glory in Death, the second in the IN DEATH series and so far it's at least holding my interest which is getting harder and harder to please with each passing day it seems!

 

 

 

KW

[Michelle]

I take it you read the first one?

 

(I always have to laugh at the perfect love life those two have! lol)

[KW]

Yes, I read the first one. I'd heard SOOOOOO much about Roark and how AMAzing he is, I was disappointed at how his character didn't grab me. Nor does Eve's. She's too rough for my liking. And he's mostly talk, throwing around his maleness just for effect... I should say Nora throws around his maleness just for effect, without much to substantiate it.

 

I simply don't enjoy a novel where two people get it on for the formulaic sake of it.

 

KW

[Michelle]

My favourite has always been Peabody, and I love the relationship between her and Eve.

[KW]

Is he in book 2?????????

[Michelle]

He?! Peabody is a woman! Hmm.. thinking back, she may not have been in book 1.

[KW]

[KW]

Just finished Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. I read it in two days. Not necessarily because it was wonderfully well written, tho it was better crafted than I had anticipated. The bizarre nature of the story, though somewhat predictable, kept me going.

 

Much better than the cheesy flick.

[Michelle]

It's certainly more in depth than the film, isn't it? Do you think you'll read the rest in the series?

[KW]

I'm going to try...

[KW]

I just finished TMWLTG by SK. Liked it well enough.

 

KW

[KW]

I just finished Equus the play by Peter Shaffer. I read it because the blurbs I'd read around sounded interesting and because I want to study plays to perhaps do an adaptation of AOV.

 

I read it in one sitting, as if watching the play and it took about 2 hours. The story was gripping, intense and exceedingly well written with interesting characters, plot twists and some wonderful conclusions.

 

KW

[KW]

This book goes against many of the writing no-no's being taught by todays writing experts: don't use ly words, never use !'s and cut the melodrama.

 

Though I was intruiged by FITA, I could not keep hold of POTW for the way it is written. And many of the scenes contradicted eachother -- ie -- characters doing what they just said they would never do, etc.

 

To make a long story short, I was a third of the way into this book and figured it wasn't going to get any better and with an impending head cold that has now taken over my head, the combination of reading this and a nasty head cold caused me to toss it.

 

NEXT.

 

KW:irked:

[KW]

The Dollmaker by Amanda Stevens....am halfway thru and WA-LA am STILL reading!!!

 

It's quite suspensful and takes place in one of my fav places: New Orleans.

 

KW

[KW]

I'm reading the HUGE book, TWILIGHT...the number one YA book of the century thus far Amazon calls it..lol...it's good, but I think that's a bit overdone.

[KW]

Done with TWILIGHT, on to NEW MOON.

[Michelle]

Did you give up on After You'd Gone then?

[KW]

Nope, it's sitting by my bed. You know when you finish a book in a series you are likely to read book 2 next. That's where I'm at right now with TWILIGHT and NEW MOON.

 

KW

[Michelle]

Ohh.. ok.

Have I seen those 2 books on MySpace?

[KW]

Hmmm, maybe -- for sure in YA sections.

[KW]

After a valiant try into the sequel of the hugely popular TWILIGHt book: NEW MOON, I put it aside for good last night.

 

On to something else...

 

KW

[Michelle]

So you enjoyed book 1, but not the sequel? What's next?