Green Darkness--Anya Seton (See note on Elemental Magic. Not sure who rec'd this one, but it was good. A bit of time travel/past life stuff and voila! fabulous plot! Would recommend it to at least 50% of my friends. 7/13)
In Pursuit of the Green Lion--Judith Merkle Riley (Pretty good stuff! I think she must be basing much of her historical accuracy on accounts of the life of Margery Kempe, and reading this makes me really glad I took all those classes on Medieval Women's History. Now I can actually appreciate the effort this author went through to make her scenes correct...before she ruins the historical accuracy by making the characters talk like a tv sitcom. Surprisingly good though. 7/8)
A Man In Full--Tom Wolfe (This was a pretty weird book, and even though there were times when I was caught myself wondering why I wanted to finish it, I knew I couldn't let it go until the bitter end. It was a bit...not me...but okay,better than stuff like Louis L'Amour and John Grisham, but not fabulous. The kind of book I'd recommend to my Dad. 7/3)
Elemental Magic-- ( I generally reserve books at the library based on reviews or recommendations from friends or authors whose works I genuinely enjoy reading. Problem is...once I've added a book to my reserve list I rarely remember who (or what) recommended that I read it in the first place. In the case of Elemental Magic, that was fine. In the case of some of the other books I've ended up with lately...Well. ;-) This is a collection of erotic fantasy short stories (four) that I was not expecting to find tucked into my stack of knitting books. One of them was way to porn-y for me and not incredibly well written, but the other three were pretty decent. 6/30)
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