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wednesday books
I barely read anything during Beach Week, but as mentioned in my last post, I'm literally checking off a half-hour with a book per day, so I have a few things to mention here, \o/
read
Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Sutanto -- the one book I managed to finish during Beach Week, a mostly frothy action-adventure-romance with a Indonesian-American heroine, her mom, and her intrepid aunties and their wedding coordinating business.
Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid -- Big, messy family; Malibu in the 80s; sort of an Andre Agassi / Brooke Shields / Steffi Graf messy marriage/divorce in-the-making; surfing. As per usual with TJR, lots going on.
Meg and Jo, Virginia Katran -- Modern-day AU of Little Women, which was surprisingly okay? The highlight, I think, is what she did with Prof Bhaer--he's still older than Jo, but in this case, he's a hot, tattoed, divorced chef. I'm waiting for the 2nd book, which focuses on the younger girls (so far, Beth has not succumbed to scarlet fever, *g*). I think I also liked it b/c she has no love lost for Mr. March/Bronson Alcott, which I totally agree with.
The Eight, Katharine Neville -- My brother's favorite book, which I finally got around to reading. I'd say it was in the vein of The DaVinci Code except it was published 20 years earlier--but there are ancient, mystical artifacts and a murderous quest and no telling who's really on the heroine's side. It's set in the 70s and written in the 80s so there's a fair amount of cringe-worthy sexist/colonialist attitudes, but probably less than you might think.
reading
West With the Night, Beryl Markham -- I've somehow never read this, but I'm surprised how much I'm liking it. She definitely led quite the life, even if she isn't really mentioning the messy bits.
Rogue Squadron, Michael Stackpole -- I started reading this for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
swbookclub months ago and I'm very behind, but I am hanging on and getting through it. It doesn't help that I think someone else is doing the same thing and we keep trading library holds back and forth. Every time I'm about to quit, I think about Patty Jenkins' teaser trailer and I keep going back.
next
The library just downloaded a skip-the-line copy of Sulieka Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, which came highly recommended from Beach Week, so I'll see about that.
read
Dial A for Aunties, Jesse Sutanto -- the one book I managed to finish during Beach Week, a mostly frothy action-adventure-romance with a Indonesian-American heroine, her mom, and her intrepid aunties and their wedding coordinating business.
Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid -- Big, messy family; Malibu in the 80s; sort of an Andre Agassi / Brooke Shields / Steffi Graf messy marriage/divorce in-the-making; surfing. As per usual with TJR, lots going on.
Meg and Jo, Virginia Katran -- Modern-day AU of Little Women, which was surprisingly okay? The highlight, I think, is what she did with Prof Bhaer--he's still older than Jo, but in this case, he's a hot, tattoed, divorced chef. I'm waiting for the 2nd book, which focuses on the younger girls (so far, Beth has not succumbed to scarlet fever, *g*). I think I also liked it b/c she has no love lost for Mr. March/Bronson Alcott, which I totally agree with.
The Eight, Katharine Neville -- My brother's favorite book, which I finally got around to reading. I'd say it was in the vein of The DaVinci Code except it was published 20 years earlier--but there are ancient, mystical artifacts and a murderous quest and no telling who's really on the heroine's side. It's set in the 70s and written in the 80s so there's a fair amount of cringe-worthy sexist/colonialist attitudes, but probably less than you might think.
reading
West With the Night, Beryl Markham -- I've somehow never read this, but I'm surprised how much I'm liking it. She definitely led quite the life, even if she isn't really mentioning the messy bits.
Rogue Squadron, Michael Stackpole -- I started reading this for
swbookclub months ago and I'm very behind, but I am hanging on and getting through it. It doesn't help that I think someone else is doing the same thing and we keep trading library holds back and forth. Every time I'm about to quit, I think about Patty Jenkins' teaser trailer and I keep going back. next
The library just downloaded a skip-the-line copy of Sulieka Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, which came highly recommended from Beach Week, so I'll see about that.