Books

[moonynz]

I love books. I try not to think about how many squashed trees I have in my room. I'm a huge book reader and will be open to read anything that doesn't involve sparkly vampires.

About a month ago I started reading a series by Sara Donati, starting with Into the Wilderness. I'm a HUGE fan of Diana Gabaldons CrossStich/Outlander series so liking this

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[rj_lupins_kat]

Oooooh... I may have to check this series out.

Thanks for the heads-up!

[moonynz]

Here's a quick sypnosis on Into The Wilderness (book one). If you're familiar with Last of the Mohicans you'll know a few of the Characters...Maybe THAT'S what I could read next...

When Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, leaves her Aunt Merriweather's comfortable English estate to join her father and brother in the remote mountain village of Paradise on the edge of the New York wilderness, she does so with a strong will and an unwavering purpose: to teach school. It is December of 1792 when she arrives in a cold climate unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man different from any she has ever encountered -- a white man dressed like a Native American, tall and lean and unsettling in his blunt honesty. He is Nathaniel Bonner, also know to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives.

[rj_lupins_kat]

Oooooh, Last of the Mohicans... hmm, thought those names sounded familiar.

Yes, I believe I shall put this on my list to read soon. I'll let you know how it goes.

Equivalant to Outlander/Cross-Stitch you say, eh?

[moonynz]

Not quite. I still believe Diana Gabaldon's work is better (I may be a little biased :p). I find with Sara Donati that I keep reading because it's hard to put down (she's very good at drawing you from chapter to chapter), but then I find I'm half way through the book and nothing has really been acheived (apart from luring me in so much I'm already half way through). I don't think she hits the nail in the head as well as Diana Gabaldon in terms of character development and some aspects of the plot, but at the same time the world she creates is so vivid it's like stepping back in time...this one just doesn't have the time travel ;)