Time again for me to be nosy and ask, what are you reading this weekend?
I have a list of things to try out, as I just read Truths and Roses in a marathon sprint. I also have a nonfiction book about storytelling arts that I want to read.
While I was loving At Home in parts, I had to stop reading it for awhile, because the discussion was often so bleak. Here are all these amazing people who invented amazing things that we now take for granted and who have been entirely forgotten by history! Oy. So that'll sit for awhile until I feel like picking it up again.
What about you? What are you reading this weekend? I hope it's awesome, whatever it is!
Oh! And is anyone going to see One for the Money this weekend? I don't think it looks “babysitter worthy,” but I'm curious!
I loaded up my NOOK for a 17-day stint in Orlando. Got Unraveled by Courtney Milan, which I have high hopes for, The Hedgewitch Queen by Lilith Saintcrow, and Devil’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens. I’m currently breezing through Creole Fires by Kat Martin, which is totally old school and predictable, but comforting for those very reasons. Also, I like the timeframe (1830’s New Orleans). And of course, I have my copy of EIKAL with me. I need to re-read it for a book club I lead in Asheville. We’ll be discussing it on February 21, which I’m really looking forward to. On the non-romance front, I’m reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. I’m finding Steve to be a flawed man, but not entirely unlikable. Flawed heroes aren’t limited to romance novels.
I’m reading a nonfiction book called MWF Seeking BFF by Rachel Bertsche, about her quest to make local close friends by going on one new “friend date” a week for a year. She makes an interesting point about how, although as a culture we’ve gotten to the point where women can declare that they are actively looking for a husband and use tools like online dating to find one, if people say they are looking for friends, what we hear is “I have no friends” and desperation- in spite of the fact that, unlike husbands, you can have a group of close friends and having a few, some or all of whom might be long distance, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek out more.
RITA books for me this weekend!
War For The Oaks by Emma Bull. It’s good but not great. Heroine did that thing that annoys the crap out of me – slept with a guy she barely knows. Sorry, but just once I wish that a heroine would take the time to find out if a guy has any diseases or in this case, might be part of the Seelie Court before sleeping with him.
I am finally reading Head Over Heels by Jill Shalvis. I have this on my bookshelf for a couple of months.. It is my fav book I think so far of her Lucky Harbor series.. I also finished Bond of Passion this week by Beatrice Small… On my kindle I am reading Rode Hard, Put Up Wet, by Lorelie James… I never read to books at once untile I got my kindle. Now I am read print book during the day and when I am in bed use my kinde.. The best of both worlds.. got to love it..
I’m in the Thomas Covenant is a whiny asshat camp. I took a couple of runs at Lord Foul’s Bane but never got very far into it. But, like Susan, I enjoyed and have reread Mordant’s need several times. Lots of dense, rich language and a far more likeable hero & heroine.
I’m on a Mary Jo Putney kick right now, and am down to reading her Guardian seies… not terribly good, but somehow they keep me reading. and I don’t *like* paranormals (except, for some reason, Jayne Castle). I’m almost done with the last one, and am not sure where I’ll go next. Loretta Chase or Elizabeth Hoyt maybe.
Just read the entire New Species series by Laurann Dohner this past week. Going to start Darker after midnight by Lara Adrian tonight.
I’m finishing up Lord Of Scoundrels for the first time, and I can’t believe there is still a romance so amazing that I’ve never read. I’m excited because it means there are more overlooked treasures out there, and not just waiting for new titles by favorite authors to look forward to…hooray!
I thought I’d be reading Blood Noir by LKH, but when I discovered Emily May is fantasy author Emily Gee, I ran out and got Beauty and the Scarred Beast (M&B UK).
elizabeth hoyt’s raven prince was so much fun that i’m going to whoosh through the rest of her stuff this weekend
Meredith intends to do Lockwood’s story, but it hasn’t come to her yet. She thought she was working on it this winter, but says it turned into someone else’s story.
I just finished “The Departed” by Shiloh Walker and am currently trying to decide what to read next. I have a lot on my TBR, but I also have a few requests I need to take care of. As for One For The Money… As much as I live Katherine Heigl, she’s not y idea of Stephanie Plum, nor is the guy they chose to be Joe. I’ll wait for it to be on cable.
I’m about to finish Gini Koch’s Touched By An Alien and loving it, esp. the smart, take-charge heroine.
I’m just beginning the new bio of Catherine the Great by Robert Massie, which is FANTASTIC so far. Reads like a novel. Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo, which I realized recently that I’d never read (I’ve seen many, many adaptations, and I’ve read lots of Dumas), and which I really loved. Love those revenge stories!
I’m reading “A Discovery of Witches” too, and totally hooked. I had been rereading “Howard’s End”, which has fallen by the wayside. I just finished “The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie”, which I thought great good fun, and “Nauti and Wild” by Lora Leigh and Jaci Burton, even though I knew better, so I have no right to complain. I have some Maya Banks Highlander books cued up, which I’ve been dying to read ever since that hilarious Tessa Dare video, and also some Beverly Jenkins because I’m determined to like her. Also “Perfect Chemistry” and it’s a toss up whether I’m less excited about the YA or the Jenkins, but it doesn’t matter, because I really am determined to like them both. The Elkeles even more so, because if it isn’t good I have to solicit more recommendations. And read them.
I don’t think I’ll be seeing One for the Money. I’d sneak into it as a second feature (because apparently I’m still in junior high[didn’t like YA then either]) but I can’t see paying for it.
I’ve just finished reading a whole heap of Highlander/Scottish type books so I need a little change of scenery. Right now I’m reading Envy by JR Ward, Nowhere Near Respectable by Mary Jo Putney and Kissing Comfort by Jo Goodman. I’m enjoying all of them but I do kind of miss the brogue 🙂
I’m reading Anne Gracie too, but the Devil Riders series. They really are fun books. Sadly my Kindle has just died and while I’m waiting for the replacement, I’ll need to find something else to read.
Green-Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells. Enjoying the Sabina Kane series quite a lot.
I finished Unraveled this week, and really enjoyed it. I found all three novels about the Turner brothers to be very satisfying and difficult to put down.
Today I just finished Among the Mad by Jaqueline Winspear and am now starting The Mapping of Love and Death. I have just one more of the Maisie Dobbs series to go. The series started slow with an overload of period detail and more telling than showing, but the author really starts to hit her stride by book 3 or 4. I have Charles Todd’s The Confession awaiting me, and it will be interesting to compare the two (or three) authors’ treatment of the same time period. Carol O’Connell’s new Mallory novel, The Chalk Girl, is also on hold for me at the library, and I can’t wait to sink my virtual teeth into it. Guess it’s obvious that I’m fond of a good mystery.
I’m reading Copper Beach by Jayne Ann Krentz and I just got Lothaire by Kresley Cole from the library and I’m eyeing that book like a dog does a bone.
There was a mention of Shana Galen on this site, a “New to Me” author, and me being me, I of course had to start with her first book. And lo, the library provideth with “When Dashing Met Danger.” It’s been a hella busy week, so I’m about three-quarters done. Entertaining and fluffy, but I confess I did skip to the ending at one point to see how it all shakes out. Not a terrible first effort, but there was a bit of dialogue in my skip-to-the-end reading that makes me think “asshole” every time the hero is back onstage.
I’m also partially into Robb’s “Strangers in Death” because I grabbed it on the fly when I was headed out to the spawn’s gymnastics class. That’s a guaranteed hour of reading right there, must have dead tree book in bag. New iPhone and Kindle app are not particularly friendly with each other.
I do, too. 🙂 I’m sorry to see it end.
I’m stuck in the middle of Rule 34 by Charles Storss. Reading it for a book club, and it is so boring, and somehow a really slow read. So just to not have to read that stuff, I have a couple of other piles to take books from. I have one pile of Elizabeth Chadwick novels, currently reading The Greatest Knight, and a pile of Nora Roberts books. Of those I think I might go with Morrigan’s Cross next.
I’m in the middle of reading The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols. With its cast of hundreds, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like to read about that many folks sharing such a small stage. However, I’ve fallen in love with the story, the writing and this bizarre population of the town of Milagro.
Friday night I started “Old Flames” by John Lawton, book two in the Frederick Troy series of espionage/thrillers set in WWII and Cold War London, and hope to finish it. I’m the kind of nutcase who structures family reading around themes, and we’re going to London and Belgium in the spring, so I’ve been crazily loading up on “London lit”. (Rest of family: Apsley House, why? Me: Iron Duke and Waterloo – we visit or you do not get ice cream). Mr. Richland is about half-way in the Keith Richards autobio, I just read a really awful book about corgis to my daughter – not nearly as good as Paddington – and the 8 yr old is of course reading HP and Roald Dahl. I’ve tracked down a ton of London and WWII books, ranging from Pink Carnation series to nonfiction about Underground London, but if anyone has any good Belgium or Great War recommendations in romance, general fiction, or children’s, PLEASE email me offline.
By the way, if you like Regencies and want to share that era with a child – I highly recommend Susan Cooper’s Victory about a cabin boy for Nelson. She wrote the “Dark is Rising” series, but this historical fiction was fabulous and her love for and knowledge of the era was amazing. Both grownups here cried (the cabin boy lives, don’t worry, just not Adm. Nelson … and I know that’s not a spoiler!)
Flowers from the Storm! And Laura Kinsale, that’s who should be the next “What to read first” selection. Frankly, although some people love the deeply flawed/scarred ninja hero book/s she wrote, I’m all over Flowers from the Storm. And I hope you can find it with the classic cover of the hero holding out the bouquet to YOU, the reader ….
thanks for mentioning Chalk Girl – I didn’t know Carol O’Connell had a new book out, and I have just reserved it at the library
I’ve just finished The Weird Sisters by Eleaonor Brown which I really enjoyed until the way-too-nicely-tied-up ending. But I’d read more by her. Right now, I am struggling to put down The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley, which I’ve had on pre-order since I finished Marianna. This is the third of Kearsley’s I’ve read in quick succession and at the moment looks like the best yet. Cornwall and Jacobites, a fabulous combination.
I really enjoyed finding out what everybody else is reading, and definitely adding a few to my TBR list. I’m reading Veil of Night by Linda Howard-it seems to be in the vein of Mr. Perfect; and The Price of Temptation by Lecia Cornwall, my first by her and it’s developing some interesting plot twists. Then I’ll probably go back to Nicola Cornick’s Scandalous Women series, I just read the first one and I’m hooked.
Re-reading Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety. Brilliant, chilling and darkly funny.
I’m reading ‘Immortal Dynasty’ by Lynda Havilland. It’s a new self-pub paranormal romance and it’s kept me up all weekend.
I actually came to this entry to see what everyone is reading too. I am in one of those ruts-looking for new authors.
As for One for the Money- I am torn. I absolutely loved the books. I am not agreeing with the cast for this movie. I would have loved to see Betty White as Grandma Mazur…and the males??? Sorry-again, bad choices. But…Kathyrn Heigl as Stephanie, just doesn’t fit the bill at all. I would have went with Sandra Bullock.
So…I am waiting until the DVD comes out. I decided that if this movie doesn’t “get it” then I won’t watch the others that will come out.
Hey Tina,
Just call the library and renew it.
Hey Tina,
Just call the library and renew it.
I saw ONE FOR THE MONEY and it was okay. It didn’t blow me away, but it didn’t suck. Heigl did a pretty good job, really and the guy as Morelli was pretty good, too. Ranger and Mazur were disappointments, though.
I’m reading RITA books. That’s all I can say about that. O.o
Almost thru Love is Fear- fantastic and afraid to look to see when next in series is due out
I am reading George R.R. Martin’s “A Clash of Kings.” The story is addictive!
Yesterday I read An Accidental Goddess by Linea Sinclair – I enjoyed it, but not as much as Games of Command (my first Sinclair). And this morning I finished Between Sinners and Saints by Marie Sexton. Really good – think I got this because of a DA review and I’m glad I tried it. It was my first M/M and it’s pretty intense (one of the MCs was abused as a child), but emotionally satisfying.
I agree completely. It didn’t suck near as much as I thought it would. And, surprisingly, I didn’t mind Katherine Heigl in the role. I’m not saying it’s worth one’s hard earned money if there’s not much interest, but it certainly wasn’t a waste either. It was entertaining and the mis-casts weren’t as egregious as I’d thought. The actors did a good job, even if they didn’t look the part. Except for Ranger. That man is something to look at, but he’s just too pretty to be Ranger.