Friday, May 1, 2009

OH MY! OH MY! OH MY!

this is the problem with blogging about the books you read...

you want to talk about the whole book, especially the end!!!

needless to say, i've finished dragonfly in amber... and diana gabaldon kind of amazes me with the way she brings all of this history and weaves it into a great story around two people who have this love that is timeless and endless. there are so many points in this book that made me break out in goose bumps, but one specific is near the end when jamie comes to claire claiming her for his own and demanding that she never utters frank's name again... never, never another... {big sigh}


i would have liked to read these books as they were printed, naive to the fact that there was another one down the pike. i think when i know that there are several more books, my mind wanders on how can it continue if...

where will the story turn if 'this' happens...

how will i survive, oh, man, i mean claire--not me, how will claire survive...

and what's to become of brianna?

i do have voyager taunting me... it's sitting there in it's hideous green B&N bag. i hear it's just as wonderful as the first two. and so again, i'm amazed that she can take all of this stuff and write these massive books that make this massive series!! amazing, i say!

so i finished my final... an A+, just in case i haven't already proudly told you personally... and i am grateful for my friend LORI who read it and helped me finish it on time last thursday night! and now that i'm done, i'm reading up a storm and trying to get caught up with the blogging...
and now to fill the gap between the semesters, and because i'm feeling the occupational requirement and obligation to read something that people are raving about... i picked up kate morton's the house at riverton. it's gloomy, and dark and mysterious and a more than a little gothic in it's ambiguous vagueness. we're looking at an 90-something year old woman who is asked to remember what happened at this house, because she served as a house maid at the english manor in the years before world war one. she's tried to forget, but someone is making a movie of the eerie events, causing her to remember... this is the perfect book to read now. no school and no husband to distract me : ) i'm getting pulled deeper and deeper into grace's story... who needs to sleep when there are great books to read!?

also on the bedside table is the new girls by beth gutcheon. i've been reading this book while reading others... so it's taking longer than usual. this is set up like other books i've read, several classmates reunite later in life to find that one has mysteriously died. yet, i know that beth gutcheon has got something up her sleeve to make this one stand out.

one more, away by amy bloom... wow! i listened to this on my way up to and home from kalispell, montana for a work thing. if you are looking for a strong female character, lillian leyb is for you. after she finds her family murdered in a pogrom, she immigrates to america. in america, she knows that she's got one major asset--her femaleness. and she exploits it as much as those who think they are exploiting lillian. if that wasn't enough, it comes to her that her daughter did survive the attack and is currently living in siberia. and off she goes in search of her daughter... alone... from new york city to seattle and up north to get to siberia. several things caught me about the book, but the author's device of showing how lillian affected the lives of those she met along the way. at times, you hate that lillian is allowing herself to be treated like she is, but then you have to admire her for the selfless acts she performs just to reach her child. who wouldn't do whatever it took to get back to a child whom you thought was dead?! imagine being an immigrant who can't fully speak the language, is a woman, is alone and is oft taken advantage of for the three prior conditions. it's a great read, just maddening!
happy reading!

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