Time for The Most Expensive Monthly Thread where I ask what you're reading, and you tell us, and then we all buy books until both the T-Bird and the credit card are taken away! Sounds like fun, right?
Currently, I'm reading a nonfiction about focus and efficiency called The One Thing by Gary Keller ( A | BN | K ).
It's a very quick and easy read (and is only 133 pages for over $13 digitally at Amazon, which I struggled with mightily, let me tell you) (Dear God it's $24 for the ebook elsewhere. What on earth!?), and I'm stopping myself from reading it too fast. I finish a chapter and let it simmer, then go back. The book asks you to question what you're doing each day, each week, and over all, and whether what you're doing directly addresses and furthers your goals. So far, I like it, but I can't recommend anyone drop $25 on it. I mean, for that much money, the ebook should make everyone dinner or at least come with free wine.
My reward for getting my work done this week is either going to be The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe ( A | BN | K ), or Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron ( A | BN | K ) because DRAGONS.
Dragons are always an adequate reward. More than adequate, really.
Amanda: I'm reading Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld ( A | BN | K ). Just came out and I'm a huge fan! He's going to be at Boston Book Fest and you can bet your ass I'm going to his panel.
I'm also reading Blamed by Edie Harris ( A | BN | K ). Because my life needs more lady spies.
Elyse: I just finished Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean ( A | BN | K ).
Reading Never Seduce a Sheikh by Jackie Ashenden ( A | BN | K ) and Sock-Yarn Shawls by Jen Lucas ( A | BN | K ).
RedHeadedGirl: Sock yarn shawls? That sounds like it would take FOREVERS.
Elyse: Not really. Most shawls are knit with a really fine yarn so you can see lace detail. Most of my yarn is lace weight.
Carrie: Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, by Wendy Williams ( A | BN | K ), and Third Daughter, Book One in the Dharian Affairs series, by Susan Kaye Quinn ( A | BN | K ). This is a Bollypunk romance.
Next up – Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the original!) ( A | BN | K ) and The Third Plate by Dan Barber ( A | BN | K ), which is about food and the farm-to-table movement.
RedHeadedGirl: I'm working 14 hours a day 7 days a week. I'm just doing comfort reads I don't need to think about.
Sarah: Which books are you re-reading?
RedHeadedGirl: Trixie Belden ( A | BN | K ) and Drina Ballerina by Jean Estoril ( A | BN | K ). I'm going back to my childhood.
Elyse: I remember Trixie and how much she wanted a pony. Her mom was a bitch.
So what about you? What books are you reading and loving right now? Or reading and not so much loving? Share share!
Weirdly enough, I just finished binge-reading the first seven Trixie Beldens.
And now I’m reading my way through a stack of battered Fear Street books. I’m going to blame that on Halloween approaching, and also on Party Games, the new Fear Street book that I raced out and bought and devoured in one sitting. How strange is it that there’s a new Fear Street book? It’s kind of like when the Sweet Valley sequels came out, and I couldn’t NOT buy them. Clearly my inner teenager has control of the credit card.
I’m reading “Marriage With Benefits” by Kat Cantrell – I read another of her books last week, really liked it, and this one caught my eye because of the Latina heroine (her grandparents on both sides are Spanish), hunky blond Texas tycoon hero, and the fact that the heroine talks him into marrying her for six months so that she can access her trust fund and build a big, new women’s shelter for abused women and children. After that, I’m going to read “Clariel”, Garth Nix’s new book.
I just finished Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire. The story of the Phantom Prom Date/Hitchhiker told in her POV. REALLY atmospheric and spooky. I loved it.
To lighten up, I’m starting a re-read of Bujold’s Miles series, so I’m reading The Warrior’s Apprentice.
I just finished Champion of the Scarlet Wolf Book One by Ginn Hale. It is a sequel to her Lord of the White Hell books. Really enjoyed it, Ginn Hale is excellent at fantasy, but book two will not be available until Dec 31. Next up I think I will try Wrecked by Shiloh Walker.
I remember reading and re-reading the Trixie Belden series when I was younger. I may have to go back and re-read those again someday.
This weekend, I’m hoping to read Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne or Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch. I’m in the mood for some YA epic fantasy books.
I liked the Sock Yarn Shawl book. Free Spirit Shawls by Shroyer is good too.
Well. Earlier this week ( or was it last week?) I binged on Shiloh Walker’s Grimm series. So good!
Right now I am reading Deadly Curiousities by Gail Z. Martin. Cause anytime the words ” antique store owner” is mentioned in a fantasy or mystery blurb I perks up. It is catnip for me.
Mostly I am just waiting for Oct 28th when Early Christmas begins. Lasts until Nov 4th. ( Within that time period most of the books on my wishlist are released.) Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Meljean Brooks, Robin D Owens. Kit Rocha, Shiloh Walker. Among others. My wallet is already whimpering.
That has to be one of my favorite titles for a book, “The Smoke Thief”. I just like saying it. 🙂
I had to buy it almost for the title alone. But dragons are definitely catnip for me.
I’m finishing up my Kate Daniels re-read. I think I’ve FINALLY convinced my husband to read this series.
Next I’m reading “Darling Beast” by Elizabeth Hoyt.
I’m really really really looking forward to Ilona Andrews’ “Burn For Me”.
Finally got hold of “The demon’s librarian” and devoured it in one sitting. No dragons, alas, but—-Librarian Saves The World! And having done so lets those in charge know how it should be run. I think the world NEEDS more kick-ass librarians running the world.
Also read Jim C. Hines’ “The stepsister scheme” in which Cinderella recruits Snow White (mirror witch) and Sleeping Beauty (martial arts expert) to help her rescue Prince Charming, who has been kidnapped by her evil stepsisters and taken into Fairyland. Because I love fractured fairy tales.
Reading “Dr. Tatiana’s sex advice to all creation,” a book about the evolutionary biology of sex. No romance, but some excellent advice: “Girls, eating men without screwing them is just plain wrong. But hey, you only live once. If you like making mincemeat of your lovers, remember that cannibalism is the right choice if and only if you run little risk of remaining a virgin. If that’s taken care of—bon appetit!”
I read two great books this week and I highly recommend both: Tryst by Elswyth Thane (a very romantic ghost story set in 1938. (the heroine is a bookish 17 year old). The book was originally written in 1939 and is a classic, imo.
Second is Skin by Lydia Michaels. I’m trying to restrain myself from buying the other 5 books in the series about the hero’s siblings. If you like Bella Andre this series is for you.
I really, really, enjoyed “An Affair Most Wicked” by Julianne MacLean even though it was a well worn plot about a rake who reforms. Also, I was very sad to finish “Banquet of Lies” by Michelle Diener, because I have now read everything she’s written and will have to wait for the next installment of either her Regency series(which BofL is part of) or her Tudor books.
I read “Komarr”, loved it of course, and am now waiting for “A Civil Campaign” to arrive in the mail.
I plowed through “Andrew”, another of Grace Burrowes Lonely Lords stories, because it was not actually bad so I would feel guilty about getting rid of the book without reading it. But at this point they are all seeming like the same book, and starting to become a chore to finish. So many lengthy descriptions and conversations which just pad the page count.
I’m on a re-reading kick right now. I revisited three by Kathleen Gilles Seidel (Again, A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity and Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige). I also re-read all my Enid Blyton St Clares books and, for some reason, decided to look for Enid Blyton fanfic. I found one really nice Mallory Towers on AO3, but the rest…
Right now, I’m in the middle of my all-time favourite Jean Plaidy: Murder Most Royal. I read this for the first time when I was 12. My original copy fell to pieces, so when I saw a reprint at my local bookstore a couple of years ago, I informed my son that he was getting it for me for Christmas that year. Plaidy’s sympathetic portrayals of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard will always colour my view of them no matter what historians or other novelists (cough, Phillipa Gregory) might write.
I read so quickly, it’s horrible (I know the bitchery will understand my pain, and not mock my #humblebrag) – I keep running out of books to read. And money to buy them…
Just finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms which was amazing, but I think I need a break before tackling the 2nd book in the series. I love fantasy, but I need a dose of fluff to calm my mind in between.
Also recently finished a 2 week glomming of all of Eileen Wilks’s Lupi books, which I was amazed had passed under my radar ‘til now, since they’re awesome. Great heroines, lots of magical theory, and believable romances, spread out accross the series. Highly reccommended!
Already finished my preordered copy of Darling Beast which was sweet and fun to read, but not exceptionally memorable.
Now wonddring what to read next…
Here’s a recommendation for fans of real-life historical love stories: Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. In a memoir, Charity Bryant wrote, “On the 3rd day of July 1807, Sylvia Drake consented to be my helpmeet.” This day was the start of more than 40 years together as the two worked insanely hard to run a successful tailoring business, supported each other in sickness, surrounded themselves with nieces and nephews, became pillars of their community… and were accepted as married by almost everyone in their small Vermont village. Using letters, diaries, and other writings (Charity composed some fine love poems for both Sylvia and other women she had previous relationships with), Rachel Hope Cleves wrote both an intimate depiction of the couple’s personalities, and a thorough examination of the economic circumstances they struggled with, how they fit into their time’s notions of marriage and gender roles, how they won acceptance… I found it all entirely fascinating.
Aside from that, I’m sill reading The Ring and the Book, slow going although worthwhile. I have a library request in for Derek Parker’s book about the historical case behind it, Roman Murder Mystery. Other books this month not worth mentioning, except Talk Sweetly to Me, a trifle by Courtey Milan’s standards but so satisfying, and probably her sexiest pairing ever in my opinion.
I just finished reading Sabriel by…I want to say Garth Nix? That doesn’t sound like a real name but I can’t be bothered. I checked it out based on previous recommendation threads. It was…it’s hard for me to judge, because my dislike of YA and coming of age stories is overwhelming. There were a lot of good aspects. I’m not angry I read it or anything. Just not for me.
I also read an Ann Aguirre book, Blue Diablo. I have resisted her books in the past, based solely I am ashamed to say on the covers. The covers are horrible. The contents are not. It was eerie how much it seemed like exactly what was asked for in the UF recs. There is laundry, and there is wearing of dirty clothes when there has been no laundry. Plus magic and saving the world.
Mostly reading India travel guides. I’m going back on the road!
I’ve had a great reading monh so far. The best so far include One in a Million by Jill Shalvis which I enjoyed more than the last four in the series. Indecent Poposal by Molly O’Keefe was amazing. I love her books. I also read In Your Dreams by KristanHiggins which I felt was her best book in a while.
The rest of my reading so far this month includes Rusty Nailed by Alice Clayton, Season for Desire by Theresa Romain, Only with You by Lauren Layne, What a Wallflower Wants by Maya Rodale, Take Me On By Katie McGarry, and Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. Right now I’m reading and enjoying The Rake by Suzanne Enoch and up next is Night of a Thousand Stars by Deanna Raybourn.
My brain can’t handle new books right now, so I’ve been doing a comfort listen binge of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga in random order. As much as I love Miles, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance is deeply satisfying on a pretend-I’m-not-here, do-I-gotta, not-me, I-don’t-wanna gleeful I-love-Ivan level. *happy sigh*
Binge listening to a series is so comforting because you just jump from one book to another without having to make any difficult choices about what to listen to next. (As long as it’s the same great narrator doing the whole series. Because narrator changes in a series are distressing, lemme tell ya!)(Ha, I might re-listen to Immortals After Dark next, if my brain needs more soothing next week. But those I’ll definitely do in order.)
I’m this close *holds thumb and forefinger half a centimeter apart* to buying the audiobooks of The Sharing Knife (whispersync FTW!) but I’m trying to make to with stuff already in my library. Because my audio library is already huge.
Ever since Chalice was mentioned in the September edition, I’ve been feverishly reading Robin McKinley’s backlist. The only title I’ve liked as much as Chalice is The Hero and the Crown.
I’ve also been reading an SF/Fantasy short story collection called Push of the Sky by Camille Alexa. There are some wonderful love stories in here, and the worldbuilding is amazing and mind-cog-turning. Some of the best love stories in the volume aren’t necessarily about romance: “Paperheart” is about the last of the dragons (female) coming to a reconciliation with the human race; “Flying Solo” is a series of letters from a sister stranded on a foreign planet to a brother she was supposed to be best man for at his wedding. So well-written. One of the more popular love stories from this collection, The Clone Wrangler’s Bride, is online I think and can be read for free. There’s a sequel to that story in Push of the Sky, which made me very happy.
Just finished What I Love About You by Rachel Gibson. Just started Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips where in the ventriloquist skills to make haunted house sounds whenever she’s around her nemesis, the owner of said house. Doesn’t hurt that his stepmother had the mansion redecorated in a pretty spooky way.
And the reason I’m checking in so late on a Saturday is that I picked What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions this morning and am finding it every kind of wonderful. I’ve had a god-awful month at work and this book is making my brain soooo happy. How can stick figure cartoons be so simple and yet convey a point so clearly? Page 14, first good laugh I’ve had in days. Then there’s the really intelligent, well thought out and often humorous responses using scientific concepts to explain how completely ridiculous ideas could/would work out. It is so much more pleasant than trying to figure out why everyone in the office thinks that I can fold the 60 hours of work done by the two people they fired into my 50 hour work week -that I’m already trying to cram into the 40 hours I’m allowed. Maybe that would be a good question for What If? part II. Any way, I think Randall Munroe’s webcomic, xkcd.com may be a new addiction on my horizon.
Oh, also finished earlier this week and highly recommending The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius which has great shorts by people like Carrie Vaughn, Naomi Novik and Seanan McGuire. There’s also a not short story from the Outlander world by Diana Gabaldon . The woman couldn’t say it in 25 pages or less on a bet.
I’m in the middle of moving as well as taking classes for a possible new job, so reading time is tough to come by. I currently am reading a short story selection, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF ROARING TWENTIES WHODUNNITS edited by Mike Ashley. A nice huge collection with some well known names contributing.
I’ve been on a Robin McKinley kick too. “The Blue Sword” and “Beauty” were wonderful! I struggled over The Chalice and Sunshine, but it was worth it in the end. Next I’m going to read the “Sherwood Forest” and “Dragonhaven”.
I recommend “Bad English” by Ammon Shea. A fun and informative library read. I got it through Overdrive.
For a read-a-long I read “The Masque of the Black Tulip”. My memories of the book were better than the re-read.
On my Kindle I’ve got quite a few library books: Virginia Kantra’s “Carolina Blues”, Deanna Raybourn’s “Night of a Thousand Stars”, Dorothy Cannell’s “The Thin Woman”, Julia London’s “The Trouble With Honor” and McKinley’s “Spindle’s End”.
I’ve also been listening to Georgette Heyer’s latest Tantor release “Arabella”. It’s pretty good.
I’m about to start on the Morganville Vampire series, with some trepidation, having just finished a short story by the same author in the ‘Crimes By Moonlight’ anthology which was OK. I hope they’re good!
I’m also reading my way through Roald Dahl with my first grader. It’s astonishing how much more he responds to Dahl than to those terribly dull Magic Treehouse books – he got very excitable when Mr Fox had his tail shot off, and it occurred to me that protagonists in most modern books for small boys do not get shot with rifles, or locked in the Chokey, or starved on a diet on cabbage soup.
I reread some of Thea Harrison’s Elder Races books prior to reading her newest book, Night’s Honor.
I’ve also been rereading some of Kristen Ashley’s books in The “Burg series.
Currently reading Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly. It’s a first time read for me, and I’m enjoying it.
I am currently reading Meet Me At the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan, which is described as a novel with recipes. I don’t bake very much, but I’m really enjoying the book and the the recipes are inspiring. The recipes remind me of Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson (a mystery about a caterer).
@Kareni—I read Beau Crusoe recently and also really enjoyed it. I discovered Carla Kelly thanks to one of the book deals that Sarah posted several months ago and have started to read her back list.
I also recently read Reaper’s Stand by Joanna Wylde (which was really good, although Ruger is still my favorite biker) and The Homecoming by Robyn Carr (which I also enjoyed).
Not sure what will be next. Lots of books on my kindle and also on my to-be-read shelves.
Rereading Elizabeth Moon’s Paladin’s Legacy pentalogy!
I would grade the Morganville vampire series at a B plus. Some of the earlier books are B’s and graduate to A’s.
Earlier this week I finished “The Lass Wore Black” by Karen Ranney. It had been on my wish list since the review on this site many months ago. I found it at the used bookstore and snapped it up.
I am now reading another book also recommended here and purchased nearly two years ago when it was on sale at Amazon, The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley.
I’m working my way through the Kate Daniels series (currently reading a short story while I wait for my library to get the fifth book in), and reading the last of the Hollows books, the Witch With No Name. I have no idea what I’m going to do once these series are done/I’m all caught up on them.
I am totally caught up in the Shifters Unbound series by Jennifer Ashley! It has grabbed me and just won’t let me go. I finish one book and immediately start on the next. I am loving the world, the characters, the action, the romance, and oh yah! The shifters are damn HOT! I just started Book 6 – Wild Wolf. I don’t know what I am going to do when I finish it. Although each novel or novella has a self contained romance, there is an over arching tread in the series. It is fascinating and enthralling. I need to go read now.
I’ve been going through the to-read pile:
First I finally actually read Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen instead of saying I’m going to read it! I quite enjoyed it, super fast and fun read, and the fact that it’s a twist on the Robin Hood story without the heroine being an herbalist/healer. Probably will check out the sequel.
Next I finished Mary Stewart’s Touch Not the Cat which I began a while ago, and it just didn’t gel for me. Slow start and the whole having the hots for a first cousin thing was a bit squicky. Continued on from where I had left off, and the pace picked up and it reminded me A LOT of Mariana which I just read a couple of months ago. I’ve read better Stewarts but it was still okay.
Then I wanted something quick and Halloween-ish so I dug up a Fear Street book that I picked up during a bout of nostalgia called The Halloween Party (FS #8). Talk about a blast from the past – divine bovines!
Then I just really wanted something gothic-y and am now on The Master of Blacktower by Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters. Enjoying so far.
I’ve been having such a good time reading I’m afraid I might be pushing my luck and the pendulum is going to swing the other way.
I’ve read a lot this month, but most have been great. They include
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey, a surprisingly thrilling & quick read
Dust by Hugh Howey, a satisfying conclusion to the series and now I’m eager to read Sand, I think Howey is now a favorite author
Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen – I’d read her columns on The Hairpin, so I was very excited for this book. It wasn’t the most in depth I’d read, or the juiciest (that honor belongs to The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood) but it was a fun read
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger – It took me forever to start this b/c I was so heartbroken that it was a new series rather than a continuation of The Parasol Protectorate, but it was REALLY fun. I can’t wait to read the next one!
I’m currently reading The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol I 1931-1934 which is good, I like her use of language, but mannnn does Henry rag on June a lot…
I haven’t been reading as much lately as our toddler hasn’t been sleeping, so I’ve been using my usual reading time (on the bus to work) to nap. Just finished Own and Snap by Katie Porter; I quite liked them (I liked most of her fighter pilot ones too), but the heroine in the first one is named Katsu and all I could think of was chicken katsu which kept making me hungry.
Currently reading Jill Shalvis’ Lucky Harbour book but only on chapter 2 so too early to judge.
I’ve been reading the Letters of Note blog. I love it and have just ordered the book.
One of my favourites on the site is the love letter physicist Richard Feynman wrote to his childhood sweetheart and wife, Arline Feynman, in 1946, 16 months after she died. He sealed the letter and it was opened for the first time after he died in 1988.
I love my wife. My wife is dead.
D’Arline,
I adore you, sweetheart.
I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.
It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing.
But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you.
I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.
When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.
My darling wife, I do adore you.
I love my wife. My wife is dead.
Rich.
PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.
@SB Sarah: I had no idea you were going to read The Smoke Thief. I actually own the entire Drakon series. There are some hits and misses, but I really liked them overall.
Just finished book of 5, Blood and Betrayal, of the Emperor’s Edge series by Lindsay Buroker. I don’t really know how to classify these; they aren’t really romance (but there is a VERY slow burn romantic element that I love) and they aren’t really UF, more like historical UF if that was a thing. I don’t know why I love this series so much, but the characters are just so loveable and believable (in a slightly unbelievable way)!
Currently I am reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness – first book in a trilogy. Despite containing the usually interesting elements I have been having trouble getting into it. I understand that it is a debut book and it shows – there is too much time spent describing heroine’s shabby, uninteresting clothes, bathroom tasks, etc. The pacing is off sometimes and the plot is constantly adding on new elements without working with the previous ones. Its like one of those days on my job where problems just keep on piling so fast that I can’t actually solve anything. I hate those days. I am currently around 60% into the book and to be fair it is getting easier to read. I am not sure if I will continue reading the trilogy, though.
After I finish I will either move to Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair or The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan. Also on my to read list are Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster, Ghost In The Machine by C. E. Kilgore, Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach and the latest two books in the Kate Daniels series.
Also I have been researching suitable book gifts for boys of 11 and 15 years old and came up with Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series and The Heroes of Olympus series, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice, Garth Nix’s Abhorsen series and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
Oh yeah, also reading the Pocket Bangkok guide book, because, yay!, I get to visit Bangkok in November.
@Danker, you are an evil, evil person, and that is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. Excuse, must find some kleenex.
FINALLY! Thank you, VenTe for expressing my feelings about Discovery of Witches: “the plot is constantly adding on new elements without working with the previous ones.” It was a kitchen sink sort of book. I’ll probably get skewered for this, but I only ever read the first Outlander, because it was similar in this regard. Something needs to happen. Let’s make a totally new thing happen!
Anyway, I’ve just finished the Hidden Blade, the prequel to Sherry Thomas’ Beautiful Enemy. It was pretty good, because Thomas can WRITE, but felt like 250 pages of back story with no plot. It was all the extra stuff she cut when she finally figure out where the story should start and what of their past she should put in. It was too much. Anyway, I immediately started Beautiful Enemy, of course, and wish I hadn’t read the prequel, to be honest.
I’ve just glommed all of Sarina Bowen’s Ivy League books and loved them. I don’t usually go for M/M romance, but as the third in the series (fourth if you count the novella), even that worked pretty well for me. I then read her contemp about the ski champion and was not nearly as impressed.
I just started reading graphic novels and, to my surprise, really enjoyed the format, so I’m on a glom. I’ve read, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Saga, and just started Fables. In romancelandia, I read Losing It and All Lined Up by Cora Cormack and, while I enjoyed the characters, I found the emotional journey in both slow and repetitive.
I’ve been reading mostly non-romance lately and I’m getting needy for the serotonin rush of a HEA. I’m definitely going to read Archangel’s Legion in the next couple of weeks – I only recently started the series and I have one more to go before Archangel’s Shadows comes out at the end of the month! I’ve been having bad luck with contemporary and new adult books lately so it might be time for a historical binge. I’m thinking some Meredith Duran and Georgette Heyer.