This book celebrates the Sex and the City movie. It is fabulous!!!! There are great photos and stills from the movie itself that show cases the story and the fashion. There is also a bunch of background info and little insider tidbits from the cast and crew.
I could probably read this book everyday!!!!
Of course, since C had number 3 I had to read it as well. I finished it Sunday morning. I don’t have enough words for to continue to discuss how much I love these books. The tone of each one is the same and yet you can tell the characters are growing and changing.
I think something I love about these books is that it reminds me so much of my friends. I have several friends that I keep in touch with from high school. Red and I have been friends for over 25 years.
This book celebrates the summer before the girls go away to college. It’s very touching.
I look forward to the 4th book that C is supposed to bring me tomorrow.
Friday, I needed another book to read and went straight for The Second Summer. I couldn’t wait to read it and find out what happened next in the girls’ lives. I was just as enthralled with this book as I was the first one. I read it just as fast trying to figure out what was going to happen. I love the interaction between the characters and the closeness they share.
I was housesitting Thursday night and had brought a book along to read, but it wasn’t doing the trick. I skimmed the bookshelves and found The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I read this book in one sitting! I thought it was great. I loved how the story followed the four characters, separately, but they were really together at every turn.
I know, can you believe it – Me, the self-proclaimed Sex and the City know-it-all had not read the book. I saw it and thought , “What the Hell?”
What the hell is right. This book sucked. Sucked. If I had read it first I would have never watched the series. I ended up skimming the book and only reading the parts that had to do with Carrie and Big.
All I can say is that Carrie Bradshaw was a way better writer than Candice Bushnell!!!
The second in Jasper Fforde’s Nursery Crime Series, The Fourth Bear was a great book. The Nursery Crime division, headed by Detective Jack Spratt, investigates all crimes that could possibly relate to a Nursery Rhyme.
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, The Big Over Easy, was good, but this book passed it by leaps and bounds. I think that Fforde hit his stride with this one and now weaves the nursery characters and their stories together with ease. Don’t think this a story for kids – this a thinker with lots of adult humour!
Okay we already know that I love the Thursday Next series. I have been waiting for First Among Sequelsto come out in paperback. This may surprise you because I love my hardbacks, but the rest of the series I have in paperback and since I a little, okay a lot, OCD I crave uniformity over my hardbacks!
The waiting did not disappoint. I loved this book. In some ways I think it may be the best Next book so far. I say this because of the story line and the way in which it was told. There were great dynamics between the characters and Fforde’s humour did not disappoint. The only thing I felt like I was missing was the play on literature. Unless I missed it, which is possible given the speed at which I read, there was not as much of the play on literature in this book as in others. However, I still love it terribly!
I have been out of control with my reading. In the past week I have read 6 books, not to mention the book that I finished to start this roll! I think I am going to give each book its due and put them in separate entries. I’ll start with Lord John and the Hand of Devilsby Diana Gabaldon.
This was a great book. It is actually 3 short stories – LJ and the Hellfire Club, LJ and the Succubus, and LJ and the Haunted Soldier. I really enjoyed these. I think that these were my favorite LJ books to date. I am not usually a fan of short stories because I feel like things are either wrapped up too quickly, or you are left dangling and wondering what came next. I didn’t get that with any of these.
Kudos to Ms. Gabaldon!
