Category Archives: Reading

eBook Recommendation: Bitch in a Bonnet

January 31, 2012 11:40 pm , Christy

If you have ever read a Jane Austen novel, you need to go to Amazon and pick up Bitch In a Bonnet. It’s 99 cents and worth every single damn penny and more. You probably spent more than that for a soda to go with your lunch.

In it, the author shows us how misunderstood Jane Austen has become. She’s perceived as being a dewy-eyed, marriage minded romance author when truly, she was a brilliant satirist and social commentator.

If you don’t find yourself grinning and then laughing out loud while reading Bitch In a Bonnet, there is something wrong with you.

Here’s an except from the review of Pride and Prejudice. This is right after Darcy finds Elizabeth visiting Pemberly and has asked if he can bring his sister to meet her.

Lizzy naturally expects that Darcy will bring Georgiana to call the day after the girl returns to Pemberly; but in fact they show up the morning before that, which pretty much means Darcy must have allowed her about ninety seconds to drop her bags and splash some water on her face before hustling her off to Lambton. It’s as though he fears Lizzy might change her mind and hop a freight train out of town before he can get the two women together.

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Ghost Story

July 29, 2011 1:52 pm , Christy

Have you read Ghost Story yet? If not, what’s wrong with you?

Went to Unity on the Plaza with Pam on Tuesday for a Q&A with Jim Butcher and to have him sign our books.

His short hair was unexpected, because I’m used to the crazy ass long hair he’s had on his previous book covers.

He was very funny, very geeky and says um a lot. He was nice enough to pose with us while signing our books.

Posted in: Random, Reading

List 15: On My Shopping List

March 19, 2011 6:33 pm , Christy

These are the things I want to buy in the next 30 days

1. Renew my domain

2. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

3. How to Knit a Heart Back Home: A Cypress Hollow Yarn
by Rachael Herron.

Posted in: Lists, Reading

Recent Books

April 7, 2008 9:21 pm , Christy

I didn’t realize my reading habits were that interesting! I can certainly tell you about the books I have read in the past week or two.

I keep a book at work to read on breaks and lunches so that I am not constantly toting a book around. My current work read is Emma by Jane Austen. I’ve read it several times before. It’s not my favorite Jane Austen novel, but my favorite movie adaptation was based on this book–Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone. I decided to re-read it because I had read an article on Persuasions discussing how Emma can be regarded as a mystery novel because we are given clues throughout the novel that things are not quite as Emma perceives them to be. It’s made this re-read rather fun for me.

I have also just started To Wed a Wicked Prince by Jane Feather. Someday I will remember that her stories now irritate me and I will quit buying her books. I’m about 50 pages in and so far there is a handsome Russian prince romancing the heroine because he wants something inside her house. Yawn. I imagine this will get tossed straight onto the tub of books to sell once I have finished it.

Yesterday morning, I finished The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer. I’ve been on a bit of a Heyer kick, as you will soon see. The Nonesuch is about a man from London visits property he recently inherited in Yorkshire and sets the countryside on its ear with excitement. Picture George Clooney (mmm…) coming to stay in your neighborhood and he plans on hanging out with all the neighbors.

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer is rather fun. It’s about a girl who comes to stay with her family for a few months. She’s a bit of a busybody, so she quickly sets the family to rights and gets everyone settled.

Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn is one of my all-time favorites. It’s got nearly everything I like in a romance novel. Young woman who is overlooked by society who is actually rather fun to talk to? Check. Handsome, charming man who is just plain nice? Check. Avoidance of obnoxious themes like The Big Misunderstanding? Check.

The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street is excellent if you enjoy the nerdiness that is Jane Austen paraliterature. It is the telling of Pride and Prejudice from the view of Mr. Darcy. I enjoyed it so much I started it over again once I had finished it!

Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer was not as much fun for me as her other novels. It’s about the son of two of her previous characters and how he reforms from a hellion into a good man. “Meh,” I say.

Fortune’s Fool by Mercedes Lackey is her third 500 Kingdoms novel. This one mostly focuses on the myth of the lucky seventh son and a bit of Little Mermaid. I’d like to re-read it again so I can pay more attention to the mythological aspects than the story line.