Hm…I didn’t care for this one all that much. I found Madison, the main character, to be shallow and immature. I’d have enjoyed the ending more if I thought she had actually grown enough to deserve happiness.
Ghosts of Boyfriends Past
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Slightly Engaged
I really, really like Wendy (Markham) Corsi Staub.
I really, really liked both Slightly Single and Slightly Settled.
I really, really wanted to like Slightly Engaged.
I think it’s cute that Tracey Spadolini is clearly a version of Wendy, and I’ve really enjoyed following her story.
So why was I so disappointed in the story of Tracey’s impending engagement?
It’s possible that I’ve simply outgrown her…when I read the first two installments, I was a little bit younger. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Tracey, and in the years between books, I’ve gotten older. She hasn’t.
I found it hard to identify with 26-year-old Tracey’s desperation to be engaged, although I am fully aware that I’d have been right there with her five years ago. Except for the fact that Tracey was living with her guy, I *was* her. Only mine didn’t get down on one knee and propose endearingly in the pouring rain. Boo hoo.
Anyway, I don’t know. I just know that this didn’t grab me the way the others did.
Vanishing Acts
I did enjoy this, though not nearly as much as My Sister’s Keeper.
One thing that bothered me…and maybe I’m just ignorant about the system…is this. Do they really keep people who are awaiting trial in with the general prison population? Because that just seems stupid.
I do enjoy her multiple POV style. I find it very interesting to read a story told through several people’s eyes. If anyone has a Jodi Picoult recommendation for me, please send it my way!
New stuff…
So I’ve got a book post up as well as a post over at the “new” blog.
Enjoy! 🙂
This is hard…
Random Thoughts 101 posted a poll. What are your top 5 TV shows of all time.
Of all time? Yikes. Okay, here goes…
1. The West Wing
2. Alias
3. Lost
4. Scrubs
5. Arrested Development
My “runners up”:
Sports Night
Six Feet Under
Cheers
Family Ties
Buffy/Angel
Friends
Quantum Leap
I absolutely adored Wonderfalls, but it wasn’t on long enough to make the list. I could go on, but I won’t. 😉
I have to agree with Steve, who commented on the original post. I don’t get Family Guy. (and believe me, I love me some Beavis and Butthead, and South Park) And I’ve shared my thoughts on Seinfeld in the past. Except for a few brief experiences, I’ve pretty much avoided reality TV. Give me good writing, and I’m happy.
Two books this week
Finally got around to reading this. Angelou’s story is hearbreaking, and yet hopeful.
Rand bought this, and highly recommended it to me. Jules Feiffer wrote this book for his (then) 9-year-old adopted daughter. He writes the story from her point of view, and captures the child’s voice amazingly well. This was adorable. 🙂
Does She or Doesn’t She?
I liked this one a great deal as well. I wasn’t so crazy about the ending…although I do see where it was hard to go with a “yay, they’re in love and happy” ending, given the situation.
Hurrah for chicklit. 🙂
Stargirl
Last week, I finished Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. This is one of those YA novels that I wonder whether teachers love it and kids hate it. Because I adored it. I finished it while I was supervising an art class that didn’t really require my supervision. It was all I could do to hold back my big, huge, ugly tears…I kept it to a few discreet ones that I was able to wipe away quickly. This is a book that I would like to own and reread over and over again.
The message, quite simply, is that one person really can change the world…or at least her little part of it.
*sob*
Happy spring?
Well, at least the sun is shining. 😉
I’m aware that it is only March, and it IS Buffalo and all…but I want to wear cute spring things. My toes are itching to be painted pretty colors and freed from their coverings.
Otherwise new in the world of me…I saw V for Vendetta over the weekend, and I enjoyed it. I don’t have any attachment to the source material, but I saw it with two bona-fide comic book nerds who also liked it.
I love Natalie Portman.
Also, I recently saw Elizabethtown, which was a lot like Garden State, except that it starred Kirsten Dunst (who I also love) as the plucky, slightly crazy but still adorable young woman playing opposite the emotionally vacant young man who’s just lost a parent. I liked it. I also liked Garden State. *shrug*
Hmmm…Natalie Portman and her sassy short hair (result of the head shaving for V) are making me want to take a trip to the salon…
I was going to post a photo, but the site I found is unbearably slow.
Click over here if you want to know what I thought of Stargirl.
Stupid, stupid rat creatures
Rand and I have been reading Bone together, and I’m really, really enjoying it. The artwork is unbelievably cute, but also very expressive. And the writing is very, very good. It goes from being Looney-Tunes silly (one of the main characters reminds me a lot of Daffy Duck) to being incredibly well-written fantasy.
And yeah, it owes a lot to Tolkien, but what modern fantasy doesn’t?
Fantastic. I cried at the end, in part because I didn’t want it to be over.