According to the Dove chocolate I just ate, "flirting is mandatory" today. I rather absently read it and threw it away. Now I'm wondering if that really is what it said. Seems somewhat suspect.
We have the Dove chocolates here because I bought them as an incentive to Terri to finish her 23 Things blog. She's going to do so today. Well, she had better. We work late together tonight (finally!) so I will be poking and prodding her all night long. And stealing her chocolate incentives!
Flying out to St. Louis a couple weekends ago, I finally got a chance to read some of the ARCs I got at ALA. The first was Jinx by Meg Cabot and I, suprise suprise, actually enjoyed it. I act suprised (really) because I haven't much enjoyed the last couple books she has written for teens. And although I thought that the plot was going to turn out all Witches of Eastwick "we want the perfect man" and in walks the devil. But, it wasn't. And despite the transparent love affair, rather enjoyed the book.
Sadly, I was not as impressed with Shannon Hale's newest book Book of A Thousand Days. I'm not sure if it was because I wasn't so familiar with the fairy tale it was based off of, or the fact that she pulled a HP7 ending where everything managed to be wrapped up in a perfect conclusion and I wanted a bit more conflict. No. Perhaps I'm being a bit too harsh. It was a good story, there were just little bits of it that annoyed me. The biggest issue I had was at the end with the "interview with the author" bit about this really being some real story that was found and translated, etc. Fake things like that annoy me.
I did, however, love Scaredy Squirrel Makes A Friend. Those stories are too cute.
Oh, and Jonathan Crombie, you know, Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables, well, he's going to be on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone as "The Man in the Chair". It seems hard to believe that he won't be playing a romantic lead. I really wish I had been able to see him in Romeo and Juliet back in the day up in Stratford, Canada.
2 comments:
I randomly stumbled on your blog because of my blog "keyword" or whatever, flirtingismandatory. I just wanted to see what came up when I searched for it and I thought I'd shoot you a note and say, you weren't imagining it, the Dove wrapper did say that!! haha. Also, I DO think the reference librarian is exciting -- I've always thought being a librarian would be amazing!
I just have to say, also, I love your book reviews. I totally agree with the "Summer to Die" with Ann Brashares book -- I thought the same thing while reading it! I agree, also, with the Meg Cabot comment and I want to read "Jinx" now -- though some of her books start to feel repetitive, no? Sorry this took two comments, but I continued browsing the blog after my first comment... :)
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