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Nov. 2nd, 2009
October Reading List
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main-hoon-emily.livejournal.comHi, I'm new! I'll probably post an introduction post later* but for now here's my October reading list for your entertainment. The rest of my 2009 book lists can be found here.
Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
One of my favorite books of all time, so I jumped at the chance to re-read it for our book club this month. I love all of Mary Stewart's books, but NCW is something special, even from the opening lines.
I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport.
We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac glistened underfoot; over the airfield the sky looked very high, rinsed by the afternoon's rain to a pale clear blue. Little trails of soft cloud drifted in the wet wind, and a late sunbeam touched them with a fleeting underglow. Away beyond the airport buildings the telegraph wires swooped gleaming above the road where passing vehicles showed lights already.
Linda Martin is hired as a governess for the 9-year-old Philippe, Comte de Valmy, and it quickly becomes apparent that the luxurious Chateau Valmy is a dangerous place for Philippe to be growing up. She falls hard for his dashing cousin Raoul, but can any of the Valmys be trusted when it becomes a matter of life and death?
Winter's Child by Cameron Dokey
I read this (and bought it) mostly for the cover, though I've also enjoyed several of the Once Upon a Time series (fairy tales re-told as young adult romances) in the past.
Winter's Child is a re-telling of The Snow Queen, and though it's not wonderful -- it would have benefitted from being twice as long so that the two romances could have been developed and not thrown in at the last minute -- some of Cameron Dokey's writing is beautiful. Not a book I want to recommend to everyone I see, but perfect for a snowy afternoon with a cup of hot cocoa to sip as you read.
( The rest behind here because it got a little long... )
*The short version: I like Bollywood movies, happy endings, romantic suspense and mystery novels, and Jane Austen. Also kittens, puppies, and other fluffy cute things. Someday I'm going to marry Mr. Tilney. The end.
Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
One of my favorite books of all time, so I jumped at the chance to re-read it for our book club this month. I love all of Mary Stewart's books, but NCW is something special, even from the opening lines.
I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport.
We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac glistened underfoot; over the airfield the sky looked very high, rinsed by the afternoon's rain to a pale clear blue. Little trails of soft cloud drifted in the wet wind, and a late sunbeam touched them with a fleeting underglow. Away beyond the airport buildings the telegraph wires swooped gleaming above the road where passing vehicles showed lights already.
Linda Martin is hired as a governess for the 9-year-old Philippe, Comte de Valmy, and it quickly becomes apparent that the luxurious Chateau Valmy is a dangerous place for Philippe to be growing up. She falls hard for his dashing cousin Raoul, but can any of the Valmys be trusted when it becomes a matter of life and death?
Winter's Child by Cameron Dokey
I read this (and bought it) mostly for the cover, though I've also enjoyed several of the Once Upon a Time series (fairy tales re-told as young adult romances) in the past.
Winter's Child is a re-telling of The Snow Queen, and though it's not wonderful -- it would have benefitted from being twice as long so that the two romances could have been developed and not thrown in at the last minute -- some of Cameron Dokey's writing is beautiful. Not a book I want to recommend to everyone I see, but perfect for a snowy afternoon with a cup of hot cocoa to sip as you read.
( The rest behind here because it got a little long... )
*The short version: I like Bollywood movies, happy endings, romantic suspense and mystery novels, and Jane Austen. Also kittens, puppies, and other fluffy cute things. Someday I'm going to marry Mr. Tilney. The end.
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