KW Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 The Kite Runner is such a good book, sad, hard-hitting, but full of warmth at the same time, I really enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 Yes, it remains one of my fav reads of last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I take it you read the first one? (I always have to laugh at the perfect love life those two have! lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 My favourite has always been Peabody, and I love the relationship between her and Eve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 24, 2007 Author Share Posted January 24, 2007 Is he in book 2????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 He?! Peabody is a woman! Hmm.. thinking back, she may not have been in book 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KW Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 It's certainly more in depth than the film, isn't it? Do you think you'll read the rest in the series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 I'm going to try... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 I just finished TMWLTG by SK. Liked it well enough. KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Done with TWILIGHT, on to NEW MOON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Did you give up on After You'd Gone then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Ohh.. ok. Have I seen those 2 books on MySpace? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 Hmmm, maybe -- for sure in YA sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted April 7, 2007 Author Share Posted April 7, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 So you enjoyed book 1, but not the sequel? What's next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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