yes, an actual update

[leighblack]

I'm totally failing at updating. I just don't have any free time! =/

Okay, how about this? Kind of as a joke, my book club decided to read Flowers in the Attic. Because it seems to be a thing that's true for pretty much every woman of our generation that we all read that book, at an age that was probably inappropriate to read it. And after a month I finally finished it yesterday! Yay! It's done!

To be honest, it's not the worst book I've ever read. I can totally see why the me that was reading Dean Koontz and Mary Higgins Clarke and Elizabeth Peters loved V.C. Andrews too. She totally fits in that genre - books that are kind of thrilling but are really easy to read and follow. aka, books for the masses. And I did love V.C. Andrews. Looking through descriptions on wiki, I've read the Dollanganger series, the Casteel series, the Cutler series, the Landry series and the Logan series. That's a lot of crappy books. Of course, I had plenty of free time as a teen and a library card.

Re-reading it was...fine. It's not a book (or a genre) I'd pick up now. But it's certainly not as horrible as I want to imagine it was. It has the subtle foreshadowing of a 2x4 to the head and the squicky stuff is really over quite quickly. I'm pretty sure that it gets worse as the series continues though. I don't know. I'm glad that we read it, but I certainly won't be re-reading the entire series.

But now I don't know what to read! There's been a look of good books released lately and I don't know where to begin! I have Cherie Priest's Dreadnought and Gail Carriger's Blameless. And Teresa Medeiros' The Devil Wears Plad and Sabrina Jeffries'A Hellion in Her Bed and Jade Lee's Wicked Surrender. And Liz Carlyle's One Touch of Scandal and Elizabeth Boyle's Mad About the Duke both come out tomorrow. That's not even a fraction of the books I have sitting here. I need to take a month off just to read. Ha ha. Not likely!

Enough about that. Time for me to get back to fanmixing. Which is a post for another day!

Comments

[shutthef-up.livejournal.com]

I read Flowers in the Attic way back when and no, it wasn't the worst book ever. It was okay and yeah, while the concept was pretty squicky but the actual description was short and not too horrible. There are far worse books out there, but after a couple of the follow-ups, I lost interest. Just the way it goes, I guess, but they really weren't good enough to keep going.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

No, they weren't really good enough to keep going. But my younger self probably didn't know that. Or care, since I was always looking for more and more things to read. I miss having free time. *sigh* Stupid adult responsibilities.

[annayork.livejournal.com]

I admit I actually liked the first two books in the Landry series. After that, it got a bit too strange. The Cutlers was meh...I didn't like what happened to Dawn at the end LOL

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

The Casteel series was actually my favorite. I couldn't tell you at this point why that was, but I remember that I loved it back then.

[missvn.livejournal.com]

You've got a Crackberry, right?? Even for some stuff I get in printed form, I upload to Mobipocket on my Palm. You'd be surprised how much reading you can get done during things like smoke breaks and bathroom breaks during your workday!

I devoured Blameless in like two days. And The Devil Wears Plaid and Hellion in Her Bed are up on the list of things I want to get to soon (deciding if I want to continue the Nicole Jordan backlist or read new stuff).

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

unfortunately, the very few breaks I get where I'm not working during them, I use to catch up on my internet reading. I pretty much only read before bed. =/

I started Blameless but moved on to the new Liz Carlyle. I'll go back to Blameless soon!

[missvn.livejournal.com]

New Liz Carlye might be my weekend reading (that or Celeste Bradley... need to finish the trilogy!). That is if I can stop reading these Alexandra Benedict backlogs....