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Sep. 24th, 2018
More booooooks
Sep. 24th, 2018 08:58 pm#58. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie. 5. Another re-read, one of my favorite contemporary romances ever. Multiple deeply engaging characters, not just the leads; multiple potential happy ends for romances, including friendly parting. Multiple antagonists at varying levels of redemption and cathartic hate-a-bility. Funny and warm and supportive of people with different body shapes and different personal challenges. It's a masterwork of dizzy, fizzy balance, where everything clicks together perfectly.
#59. Moon Flights by Elizabeth Moon. 4. Re-read. Collection of short stories, a mix of sf and f. They're mixed; some of the better ones also appear in another of her anthologies. The set featuring the Ladies' Armor Society are cute fluff; some of the others go deeper.
#60. Competence by Gail Carriger. 4. The latest installment of the Custard Protocol series, this one features prim Primrose and the rather less prim werecat Tasherit. Rue's headstrong tendencies had gotten a bit irritating, so the switch in emphasis to Prim and her twin Percy is welcome.
#61. Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa. 5. Absolutely brilliant manga. Dieselpunk before that was really a thing, this weaves magic, horror, romance, and politics together incredibly effectively, with a sprawling cast that's still incredibly well developed. (I don't usually include graphic novels in these, but I did just finish the entire very lengthy set. I'm going to count it as one big book for my records.)
#62. Sister Emily's Lightship by Jane Yolen. 4. Short story collection, many of which are new takes on classic fairy tales.
#63. Phases by Elizabeth Moon. 4.5. Re-read. One of my favorite short story collections, with a nice range of fantasy and science fiction, from the light to the deadly serious.
#64. It Takes Two to Tangle by Theresa Romain. 3. Sort of Cyrano-y romance; when the truth comes to light, it's a bit annoying. Mostly unobjectionable fluff.
#65. Cinder by Marissa Meyer. 4. Sci fi retelling of Cinderella. She's a cyborg. He's still a prince. But the queen of the moon wants to mind control them all. Bonus points for the pumpkin being an ancient orange car Cinder fixes herself.
#66. The Princess Diaries: Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot. 3. Reasonably cute YA continuation of the trials and tribulations of a high schooler who discovers she's royalty. Now with Halloween costumes!
#67. Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot. 3. Cute mystery featuring a washed up pop star, with enough twists that I had two good wrong guesses before figuring out the murderer. But for something that aspires to be girl-power, love-at-any-size, weirdly fat-shaming? Like, she has trouble fitting in a dress because she spends her getting ready time mindlessly eating Oreos or something, tee hee?
#68. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Love by Meg Cabot. 2.5. More cute princess-ing. Except about a third of the book feels like filler - movie capsule reviews, increasingly long excerpts from math homework.
#59. Moon Flights by Elizabeth Moon. 4. Re-read. Collection of short stories, a mix of sf and f. They're mixed; some of the better ones also appear in another of her anthologies. The set featuring the Ladies' Armor Society are cute fluff; some of the others go deeper.
#60. Competence by Gail Carriger. 4. The latest installment of the Custard Protocol series, this one features prim Primrose and the rather less prim werecat Tasherit. Rue's headstrong tendencies had gotten a bit irritating, so the switch in emphasis to Prim and her twin Percy is welcome.
#61. Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa. 5. Absolutely brilliant manga. Dieselpunk before that was really a thing, this weaves magic, horror, romance, and politics together incredibly effectively, with a sprawling cast that's still incredibly well developed. (I don't usually include graphic novels in these, but I did just finish the entire very lengthy set. I'm going to count it as one big book for my records.)
#62. Sister Emily's Lightship by Jane Yolen. 4. Short story collection, many of which are new takes on classic fairy tales.
#63. Phases by Elizabeth Moon. 4.5. Re-read. One of my favorite short story collections, with a nice range of fantasy and science fiction, from the light to the deadly serious.
#64. It Takes Two to Tangle by Theresa Romain. 3. Sort of Cyrano-y romance; when the truth comes to light, it's a bit annoying. Mostly unobjectionable fluff.
#65. Cinder by Marissa Meyer. 4. Sci fi retelling of Cinderella. She's a cyborg. He's still a prince. But the queen of the moon wants to mind control them all. Bonus points for the pumpkin being an ancient orange car Cinder fixes herself.
#66. The Princess Diaries: Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot. 3. Reasonably cute YA continuation of the trials and tribulations of a high schooler who discovers she's royalty. Now with Halloween costumes!
#67. Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot. 3. Cute mystery featuring a washed up pop star, with enough twists that I had two good wrong guesses before figuring out the murderer. But for something that aspires to be girl-power, love-at-any-size, weirdly fat-shaming? Like, she has trouble fitting in a dress because she spends her getting ready time mindlessly eating Oreos or something, tee hee?
#68. The Princess Diaries: Princess in Love by Meg Cabot. 2.5. More cute princess-ing. Except about a third of the book feels like filler - movie capsule reviews, increasingly long excerpts from math homework.