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healingmirthI finally admitted that I really don't care about Forever, and one episode of Backstrom was plenty, so that's another 12 hours or so of DVR space. I think I may have lost an episode of Person of Interest. Oh, well.
Books!
What I finished:
Enlightened (Joanna Chambers) did in fact turn out to be a really good read, and a solidly written one! I maintain that I don't think I would have stuck with the series if it'd just been the one book available, but if you want, like, a lot of words and a rec that it ends on a good (for historically plausible versions of good) note, then you have it.
Men Under the Mistletoe (Anthology) - because if I'm going to be under a foot of snow, I might as well go back to Christmas, right?
My True Love Gave to Me (Ava March) - Far, far too frequent changes of point of view, but a good enough Regency England story. I definitely would have lost patience with the uneven structure over a full novel, not sure I buy the plot, felt a bit too modern.
Winter Knights (Harper Fox) Blah blah someone modern has a magical threesome with King Arthur maybe? I immediately noped out of for a first person PoV that didn't grab me.
Lone Star (Josh Lanyon) A Texas Ranger and a ballet dancer, former childhood best friends. Great contrast and history and blah de blah, but not my ideal romance character occupations. A bit too much of a stretch for familiarity, but not quite enough to just take the author's word for verisimilitude. I will admit that my entire "knowledge" of professional dance is based off SYTYCD and Center Stage and something I read in, like, Seventeen or YM twenty years ago, but I feel like the PoV dancer character was being billed as both more flamboyant and more hard-working than he ever was on the page. I'd probably read more, and I understand that Lanyon has written a ton of things, but I'm not super jazzed for either mysteries or more contemporary romances
The Christmas Proposition (KA Mitchell) On the other hand, an oil tycoon and a dude who runs his family's Christmas tree farm in a small town, they're just like my neighbors! Fine, anyway... A first person PoV that I really liked, nice, slightly complicated friend and family situation, good romance, reasonable plot. A+ (or at least B+) - would read again.
What I'm reading now:
I made it another page or two into The Suffragette Scandal, and then there was either hockey to watch, a kitten to entertain, or a broken website to fix, so I haven't gotten back to it. I also finally picked up A Hundred Years of Solitude tonight, but I was just reading during the intermission hockey commentary that I didn't care about. So the environment didn't lend itself to immersion, but honestly I just had to start it because I have been saying I would.
What I'm reading next:
Jackdaw, still, probably.
Books!
What I finished:
Enlightened (Joanna Chambers) did in fact turn out to be a really good read, and a solidly written one! I maintain that I don't think I would have stuck with the series if it'd just been the one book available, but if you want, like, a lot of words and a rec that it ends on a good (for historically plausible versions of good) note, then you have it.
Men Under the Mistletoe (Anthology) - because if I'm going to be under a foot of snow, I might as well go back to Christmas, right?
My True Love Gave to Me (Ava March) - Far, far too frequent changes of point of view, but a good enough Regency England story. I definitely would have lost patience with the uneven structure over a full novel, not sure I buy the plot, felt a bit too modern.
Winter Knights (Harper Fox) Blah blah someone modern has a magical threesome with King Arthur maybe? I immediately noped out of for a first person PoV that didn't grab me.
Lone Star (Josh Lanyon) A Texas Ranger and a ballet dancer, former childhood best friends. Great contrast and history and blah de blah, but not my ideal romance character occupations. A bit too much of a stretch for familiarity, but not quite enough to just take the author's word for verisimilitude. I will admit that my entire "knowledge" of professional dance is based off SYTYCD and Center Stage and something I read in, like, Seventeen or YM twenty years ago, but I feel like the PoV dancer character was being billed as both more flamboyant and more hard-working than he ever was on the page. I'd probably read more, and I understand that Lanyon has written a ton of things, but I'm not super jazzed for either mysteries or more contemporary romances
The Christmas Proposition (KA Mitchell) On the other hand, an oil tycoon and a dude who runs his family's Christmas tree farm in a small town, they're just like my neighbors! Fine, anyway... A first person PoV that I really liked, nice, slightly complicated friend and family situation, good romance, reasonable plot. A+ (or at least B+) - would read again.
What I'm reading now:
I made it another page or two into The Suffragette Scandal, and then there was either hockey to watch, a kitten to entertain, or a broken website to fix, so I haven't gotten back to it. I also finally picked up A Hundred Years of Solitude tonight, but I was just reading during the intermission hockey commentary that I didn't care about. So the environment didn't lend itself to immersion, but honestly I just had to start it because I have been saying I would.
What I'm reading next:
Jackdaw, still, probably.
