Musing Mondays (http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/) asks you to muse about one of the following each week…
• Describe one of your reading habits. •
Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it!
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
•Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!
I just finished reading Crystal Cove (A Friday Harbor Novel) by Lisa Kleypas. I have read all the Friday Harbor Novels and noticed a trend toward the paranormal when I read Rainshadow Road. That became a full blown paranormal novel with Crystal Cove. This is a new direction for Lisa Kleypas. I don't remember her writing anything similar before. I know paranormal seems to be the new hot romance genre. That got me wondering if authors are just jumping on the paranormal bandwagon on their own or if they are being pushed there by their publishers.
Leave a comment and tell me what you think.
I like all of Kleypas's novels and Crystal Cove was not an exception. It was a quick fun read with great characters and for anything to work between the two main characters there had to be a paranormal element. I do think I liked the books better without the paranormal.
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include include the title and author so others know what you're reading.
I just got the ARC of Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas from Amazon Vine this week. This is book 3 set in Friday Harbor (from the trilogy of the same name) and is Alex's story. I started it late last night and so far so good. Here is the beginning.
"The ghost had tried many time to leave the house, but it was impossible. Whenever he approached the front threshold or leaned through a window he disappeared, the some of him dispersing like mist in the air."
The ghost is a new addition to the series and this makes me wonder what part he plays in Alex's story.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
Since it is Valentine's Day I though a love story would be in order. My teaser is from Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas. I read the book over a year ago but did not own a copy. I just picked up a used copy at my local thrift store this week-end. This is a short book that is the first in Lisa's Friday Harbor series of contemporary romances.
"And she added in another hesitant but perfectly audible whisper, "Her name is Clover."
"In the shock of hearing Holly's whisper, Mark forgot everything: their surroundings, the woman behind the counter. Six months they's been trying to get Holly to something, anything."
