Daily Archives: August 8, 2010

It’s Monday, what are you reading?

Posted on August 8, 2010
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Sheila from One Person’s Journey through a World of Books hosts this meme and I love to participate in it! Head on over and check out her blog and the great participants there.

While you are here, be sure to check out my August Read-Along post… if you have never read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins now is the time to join in and be exposed to this fantastic piece of literature.

Also… GIVEAWAY!  I’m giving away one pre-order to a lucky person attending the event on The Lost Entwife’s Facebook page!  Head over, click “Like” and “Attend” on the event!  Extra entry for promoting – see rules here.

Books I’ve Read this Week (links to reviews):

  1. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
  2. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
  3. Summer at Tiffany’s by Marjorie Hart (review to come)
  4. Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton (review to come)
  5. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (review to come)
  6. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (review to come)

Book reviews put up this week:

  1. The Girl who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
  2. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
  3. The Secret of Ka by Christopher Pike
  4. Behind Every Illusion by Christina Harner
  5. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik

Books to read this week:


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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Read-along – Part 2

Posted on August 8, 2010
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Already we have had some fascinating discussion on this book –  please visit The Woman in White Read-Along Part 1 to join in (it’s never too late!).  Continue your discussion of the first four parts of the book there and use this post to begin the discussion of these next four parts.

The Woman in White Read-Along Part 1 Discussion

The Woman in White Read-Along Schedule.

This weeks schedule is the following (click “Read More” to continue):

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Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

Posted on August 8, 2010
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Victory of Eagles (Temeraire, #5)Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

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Summary:

It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military
service – and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. For Britain, conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon’s resurgent forces
have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon’s prime objective: the occupation of London.

My Review:

Oh, Temeraire..I wish I could say I read this book with the same fervor I read the first few but either I am growing apart from the story or it is massively slowing down.

I really had to force my way through this book.. to the point of looking on it with contempt whenever I knew I should do some reading. The writing was, as always, spectacular and it was not the author’s fault… necessarily. I just feel as if the story got so bogged down with the travels to Africa and Turkey and China and now that we’re back on the “home turf” the excitement has lessened.

I will say this – I did enjoy seeing Temeraire finally come into his own. I enjoyed seeing him get some of what he desires for the dragons and I appreciated that he finally is learning that his, at times thoughtless, actions can hurt others. He has tossed Laurence about for several books now with little a care to what might become of the man spiritually and emotionally.

And speaking of Laurence.. I’m starting to get a bit tired of this character. Does anyone else feel that way at this point? It almost felt as if the story might have moved along better had Laurence actually been put to death. (I feel horrible saying that, but I just get so tired of characters getting out of impossible circumstances). I think I’ll take a bit of a break before moving on to the next book; I may just have read too much of a genre I don’t typically read and need some time to digest it.

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