What Are You Reading?
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There are definitely decent girly books,MM, and this one actually had a pretty good mystery going on (I had the 'baddie' pegged wrong until almost the end), but the clumsy sexual innuendo and repetitive word use drove me crazy. And this is an author with at least 80 published novels! I'm in the wrong racket--gotta learn to write smut (even bad smut)
Slightly off topic but not so much so . . . one of the things I really disliked about William Faulkner's --a favorite of mine, work was his repetitiveness.
The er-um book had me stomped too. I researched and found out what happen in the end and I was blown away. Too bad she had to use er-um so much because it really got on my last nerves. She really killed a great read with that craziness.
I read the first one a little while ago, on the rec of Ms.Mod, and I mostly liked it. It's a time-travel adventure, and just about every dramatic thing that can happen, does, but the writer is talented enough to make that work. The romancey stuff was all right (I did skim some parts to get through the smoochy and to the story--lol--but that's just me). The history and adventure were really well done!
I you enjoy time-travel adventure stuff without the smooches (lol), I reviewed one a couple of months ago that I really liked: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic. Blurb writer tried to tie it with A Discovery of Witches, but don't let that fool you. I liked it a WHOLE lot better than that book (I couldn't finish DoW).
I'm okay with the 'er-um', as long as it's part of dialogue (people do speak that way), and as long as it's not overdone. Lower end romances and kids' books (YA) tend to do that, unfortunately.
Repetition can be a useful narrative device, when used sparingly. Again unfortunately, for some writers it becomes so habitual that it's an affectation. Any sort of non-standard punctuation, grammar, repetition can be of great use to catch the reader's attention; we know how things SHOULD be written, so our eye pauses when something is 'off'. If you do it too often, though, the reader stops pausing and starts wondering if you don't know what you're doing
That's a very difficult thing to get through to the people for whom I edit.
I'm okay with the 'er-um', as long as it's part of dialogue (people do speak that way), and as long as it's not overdone. Lower end romances and kids' books (YA) tend to do that, unfortunately.
Repetition can be a useful narrative device, when used sparingly. Again unfortunately, for some writers it becomes so habitual that it's an affectation. Any sort of non-standard punctuation, grammar, repetition can be of great use to catch the reader's attention; we know how things SHOULD be written, so our eye pauses when something is 'off'. If you do it too often, though, the reader stops pausing and starts wondering if you don't know what you're doing
Yep . . .we are sistas. Don't agree on everything but we do agree on most. I like the way you roll . . .
It disturbed me, but yes. The subject matter, the moral ambiguity, the fact that at the climax I was cheering her on—I had to put that book down and pick up something lighter for a while.
Which is, I should have said, the last (as of now) Dresden Files book, Cold Days. Good stuff. I'm not a series fan, generally, but Jim Butcher knows what he's doing. He is the shiznit.
I have 50 pages to go in Outlander book 7 and am very distressed at the turn of events! I am scared to finish it now...
@MadamMack You should give Outlander a look! I'm not too fond of straight-up romance books myself but there is so much more to them than just romance. So much adventure and history in them as well. I have very much enjoyed them all.
@MadamMack You should give Outlander a look! I'm not too fond of straight-up romance books myself but there is so much more to them than just romance. So much adventure and history in them as well. I have very much enjoyed them all.
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@cat in a bag Which one is Book 7 - a Breath of Snow and Ashes?
Nope, An Echo in the Bone.
Finished it. Now, there are 2 big reasons to wish June would hurry up and get here, Mr. Mercedes and book 8!Picked up Michael Grant's BZRK at the library today & like it quite a bit. He's known as a YA writer, but I'd peg this one as an adult book, even though the protags are older teens.
Now if you add in teenagers in love with the smut you will become a bestselling author and make zillions in $$$$$.......There are definitely decent girly books,MM, and this one actually had a pretty good mystery going on (I had the 'baddie' pegged wrong until almost the end), but the clumsy sexual innuendo and repetitive word use drove me crazy. And this is an author with at least 80 published novels! I'm in the wrong racket--gotta learn to write smut (even bad smut)
Thank you for the info . . .I think I'll give 'em a read~
There was definately a twist 3/4 of the way thru and it made me so mad I almost stopped reading the book but am glad that I didn't because there was another twist that changed everything! Good book!
At the moment I'm partaking of the following: Indigo by Graham Joyce
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
and London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
and London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
The Stand - Uncut- 736 page.
Listened to a little more of Drawing of the 3. I am savoring it by bits, a little while I fold laundry, or grocery shop, or walk Harvey (our smiling terrier).
The Giver - by Lois Lowrey.. My son has to read it for a book report and is almost done. He asked me to get the book out of the library so I can read it and we can discuss it. (Was so tickled!)
Listened to a little more of Drawing of the 3. I am savoring it by bits, a little while I fold laundry, or grocery shop, or walk Harvey (our smiling terrier).
The Giver - by Lois Lowrey.. My son has to read it for a book report and is almost done. He asked me to get the book out of the library so I can read it and we can discuss it. (Was so tickled!)
That's such a nice feeling, isn't it?
I'm curious about your take on THE GIVER (when you're finished). I read it for my daughter, and it made me have so many feels at the end. Without spoiling, she and I had different takes on the end. Good book!- Status