I figured that I should use this space to update the books I've read. As I think shows in my sidebar, I make note of them in
Goodreads, but I could put a little commentary here.
I read the latest in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series,
Lover Mine
, last week, and it was wonderful. It was about John Matthew, with a healthy dose of Qhuinn and Blay (who collectively broke my heart). We also got the backstory on Xhex, who is much older than I'd thought. Terrific, though. The book had the same tough sexiness of the other books in the series. My quibbles were her overuse of some of the slang, such as "getting verticle" and derivations thereof. Once or twice was fine; after that she could have just said that people sat up.
I also read
Water for Elephants
. I may have been the last person in the country to read this. It was fantastic. It's being made into a
movie, with Rob Pattinson playing young Jacob and Reese Witherspoon as Marlena. Hal Holbrook will play old Jacob.
The last book club book I read was
The Blue Girl
, which was an urban fantasy book, and I really enjoyed it. It was about a girl who befriends a ghost boy and has to fend off a bunch of fairies.
I had to flounce on the last book club book,
Under the Sabers
, because it was so bad. I just couldn't get past the first few chapters. I guess books about army wives just aren't for me. I ended up being sick on the discussion day, anyway, so it must have been a cosmic sort of thing.
This month's selection is
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
. I'm listening to the audiobook version. I'm about half way through it, and I'm loving it so far.
Update: June 2, 2010:
I finished
Deliverance Dane a while ago, I just forgot to update here. It turns out that I continued loving the book, though that sentiment wasn't shared by my book group colleagues, interestingly. I thought it was a nice, fun story that went back and forth from the 1990s to the late 17th/early 18th centuries. Others in the book group thought that it was lacking in scholarship and dumbed down for the reader. But, that's what makes for a good book group discussion. It's a boring book group in which everyone agrees.