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[sageandsea]

Venus Envy, Rita Mae Brown, 345 pgs.

Wow, does RMB need an editor. Every book sounds the same...I would have been really interested in the characters if I hadn't had to wade through pages of RMB's social commentary. And the ending! 50 pages of hallucination just so she can get in the celestial sex scenes!

The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper, 300 pgs.

My annual MidWinter reading, on my second copy of the book since I read the first one to shreds.

Brightly Burning, Mercedes Lackey, 453 pgs.

Mmmmm, Valdemar candy!


Looks like I'm not going to break 50 this year. Drat! I'm in the middle of a number of books; maybe I will get either Plane Insanity or Childhood's End done by the first. I think I'll focus on Childhood's End, and end the year the way I started, with a classic I hadn't read before.

Comments

wow

[taoskye.livejournal.com]

I thought for sure you would wade through 50 this year. Well, lots of other cool things have happened that keep your attention though. :)

Re: wow

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

That's very true! And I don't really feel bad about not hitting 50.

[rubrchick]

I read the first bit of Venus Envy a long time ago (the only RMB I had read before that was Rubyfruit Jungle) and put it down after having read the letters the main chica wrote to everyone when she thought she was dying. That was all I needed from the book, so I didn't bother with any more of it. I'm glad to hear I put it down at the right time! :)

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

I should have done that, but... my problem with RMB is that underneath all the crap she actually does write engaging characters, so I keep reading.

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

I remember when I tried to read Venus Envy -- I started it in the bathtub, realized that I hated her writing style, and then was thoroughly annoyed because I was stuck in the tub wiht nothing to read. :)

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

I remember when I tried to read Venus Envy -- I started it in the bathtub, realized that I hated her writing style, and then was thoroughly annoyed because I was stuck in the tub wiht nothing to read. :)

*laughs* Yeah, nothing worse than being stuck in a nice warm bubbly tub with nothing to read but the shampoo bottles!