50-Book Challenge 2010: Books 11-20

[phoebesmum]

Books 1-10.

11.

Comments

[kmousie]

I read Garden Spells...read a little bit like a Lifetime Movie of the Week to me. And I'm rather sick of the "everything will be solved by the right man and a baby" trope. But I suppose it's what a lot of women want, so...*shrugs*

[phoebesmum]

Ah, well, you don't read fluffy chicklit if you're looking for anything particularly enlightened. And roooomance is, I suspect, what a lot of people do still want. I wouldn't have minded some in my life myself, to be truthful.

[kmousie]

I read it for a book club. Not something I would have picked up on my own, I don't think. I really liked the interplay between the sisters, and I would have liked more development of that. Nothing wrong with romance, but we all have far more nonromantic relationships than we do romantic ones.

[phoebesmum]

I tend to enjoy more-or-less mainstream books with a tinge of fantasy. Also, this had a very pretty cover ...

... some days I just don't want to work too hard, you know? I read all sorts of Serious Literature when I was in my teens, these days I'm all about the escapism.

[raietta]

I love Kate Atkinson. Her mystery "series" is my least favorite of her work, but then again it's kind of refreshing to read a more or less straight mystery by her.

Still painful to read, though. Misery and poignancy, heartbreaking death! I can't handle her sometimes.

[phoebesmum]

I always say that Behind the Scenes at the Museum is the book I would have written if I weren't so damn lazy and ever got off my bum and, you know. Wrote. But I didn't, so she got there first.

She does have a bit of a penchant for death and doom though, it's true. It's a bit like reading a Russian novel with a perky narrative voice.