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angela_oI'm happy to report that our travels were uneventful. Traffic was even less than usual so we made good time. J's 13th birthday was celebrated with appropriate elan and I had fun catching up with my siblings and my parents. I even got a few early birthday gifts as well. :)
I also managed to get a few more books read.
#79 was a book my mother wanted me to read. It's called Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health and Great Relationships by Sylvia Browne. I'd never heard of the woman, but my mother finds her fascinating. I certainly don't buy into all the theories presented, but the case studies were interesting reading.
#80 was Deerskin by Robin McKinley. A loosely based retelling of an obscure Perrault fairytale. It was a fairly engrossing read that straddles the line between fantasy and reality. It also dealt with some fairly harrowing subject matter. I stayed up late reading it if that's any indication of my enjoyment level.
#81 was Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris. This was the latest Sookie Stackhouse book which I'd had on hold forever at the library. It finally came in and I stayed up way too late last night reading it. I know that other people were meh about it, but I liked it. Perhaps it's because I don't expect too much from them going in and much as I love Eric, I like the new guy. I do think that I may have missed the book prior to this one though so I may have to rectify that oversight.
100 should definitely be doable by the end of the year. Anyone care to guess how many they think I'll end up with by 12/31?
In other news, the kids went back to school today. I think that this is the first time in my life that I haven't been excited for school to begin. Part of it is my anxiety about E starting high school, but I think that it's also that I'm not looking forward to being back in the routine of early rising and driving everyone all over creation. *sigh* Of course, wicked PMS might be influencing my attitude just a little. ;)
Now, to bed I go. I'll be 41 tomorrow. Hard to believe I tell you. Those old truisms are right. Time does fly. lol
I also managed to get a few more books read.
#79 was a book my mother wanted me to read. It's called Past Lives, Future Healing: A Psychic Reveals the Secrets to Good Health and Great Relationships by Sylvia Browne. I'd never heard of the woman, but my mother finds her fascinating. I certainly don't buy into all the theories presented, but the case studies were interesting reading.
#80 was Deerskin by Robin McKinley. A loosely based retelling of an obscure Perrault fairytale. It was a fairly engrossing read that straddles the line between fantasy and reality. It also dealt with some fairly harrowing subject matter. I stayed up late reading it if that's any indication of my enjoyment level.
#81 was Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris. This was the latest Sookie Stackhouse book which I'd had on hold forever at the library. It finally came in and I stayed up way too late last night reading it. I know that other people were meh about it, but I liked it. Perhaps it's because I don't expect too much from them going in and much as I love Eric, I like the new guy. I do think that I may have missed the book prior to this one though so I may have to rectify that oversight.
100 should definitely be doable by the end of the year. Anyone care to guess how many they think I'll end up with by 12/31?
In other news, the kids went back to school today. I think that this is the first time in my life that I haven't been excited for school to begin. Part of it is my anxiety about E starting high school, but I think that it's also that I'm not looking forward to being back in the routine of early rising and driving everyone all over creation. *sigh* Of course, wicked PMS might be influencing my attitude just a little. ;)
Now, to bed I go. I'll be 41 tomorrow. Hard to believe I tell you. Those old truisms are right. Time does fly. lol
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Date: 2006-08-30 03:08 pm (UTC)Ever since Harper Connelly survived a zap from a lightning bolt, she's been able to find dead people, a skill that makes the protagonist in the first installment of Harris's new series a tad more bizarre than the mind-reading heroine of the author's Sookie Stackhouse books (Dead as a Doornail, etc.). Harper travels to the Ozark town of Sarne, Ark., to find a missing teenage girl's body, accompanied by her stepbrother, Tolliver, who acts as her manager and bodyguard and with whom she shares a thinly disguised physical attraction that they manage to keep at bay by engaging in casual sex with various partners. Finding the body takes no time at all, but leaving town afterward isn't so easy. When Harper's life is threatened and Tolliver ends up in jail on trumped-up charges, it quickly becomes apparent that something sinister is going on in Sarne. Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs.
Grave Surprise, Book 2, will be released next month!