vanbrat said:
I don't care much for the burning, yearning chests and lips stuff.
Same here. Even when I was young enough to want romance, that did not appeal to me, in literature. I don't know why authors write it. :huh:
I've heard romance writers earn a lot of money.......
Anyhow, the book I read,
The Masterpiece, did contain one overdone kissing scene, but overall I thought it was a good story... at 500+ pages, it was a well-developed story with interesting characters... and it is a Christian novel so faith issues figured into the plot and I got some inspiration from it. I don't think people who are not Christians would like it and noticed some one-star reviews at Audible.com because the fact that it was a Christian novel wasn't mentioned in the book description. Fortunately at Audible we can sell back a book we don't want to finish reading, for any reason. I think that would be a good reason to request a point back if one had an aversion to reading Christian literature.
That was a nice literary diversion for me.. and what a page-turner! It definitely kept my attention. Still, I kept thinking it was more appropriate for younger readers.
Now back to my regular reading list for this month... I have so many books in progress right now, I used
a spinner to decide which ones to read next. Today's reading list - I want to read a bit from each of these... typically 1-2 chapters, or 5-10 pages, whatever feels right...
Ramona's World, by Beverly Cleary (8th novel in the Ramona series - I'm almost done reading the entire series!) Juvenile literature - I never read the Ramona books when I was a child and bought the boxed set to share with my granddaughter.
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, by JS Holliday - I'm in the 11th chapter, less than 100 pages from the end of this 400+ page nonfiction book. It contains gold rush memoirs, letters and commentary.
The Endless Steppe, by Esther Hautzig - the memoir of a Jewish girl relocated from Poland to Siberia during World War II.
The Moorchild, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw - a juvenile fantasy novel that was a Newbery honor book in 1997. I'm loving this book!
Out to Candleford, by Flora Thompson - second book in the Lark Rise to Candleford series - The series explains everything there is to know about English peasants and village life in the 1880's. Very detailed, and interesting. The book is supposedly fiction but reads more like a nonfiction memoir.
The White Stag, by Kate Seredy - Short grandiloquent novel that won the Newbery Medal in 1938. A strange book telling myth and partial truths about the three generations leading up to Atilla the Hun... and the invasion of the land that is now called Hungary. I'm grateful to be almost at the end - this has not been a fun read for me. I'm reading it as part of my goal to read all the Newbery list books, both medal winners and honor books.
Too much stuff....
