Skip to main content

Well

I did not actually finish the last Mary Balogh novel I bought, and that's 75% because I put it somewhere and forgot where, and 25% me not needing to finish the book so much that I'd look for it. I will read it when I find it.

Due to this misstep I did sit down and read Remember Love in one day. While it's the start of a new series for the author, I probably won't read any books that follow it, either, because after fifty pages or so I basically skimmed. This is a tepid romance, with a conflict so easily resolved you can't really even call it a conflict. It's also extremely lukewarm as far as conflicts go. About the first third of the book is a set-up of characters for the new series, and the rest is just very compentent writing about characters who are nice people caught in that ho-hum situation, which derails their tepid romance, and six years later they pick up the pieces and nicely resolve it.

It's a nice book. I like the author. But she's written such hugely emotional, wildly conflicted novels that I hardly recognize this as her work. My advice is to pass and read something else, I'm afraid. Unless you want nice and tepid and easily resolved, in which case, this is your new favorite book.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

Goodwill Gamble #2 Arrives

My second Goodwill gamble arrived; this is one I paid ten bucks for last month. Just inside the lid was a big roll of plastic mesh that I think is for latchhook work. In the auction listing it looked like fabric to me, so that was unexpected. Someone at the seller's end was nice enough to put a note on this pinned fabric. I'll put on my gloves before I take it out to inspect it. The embroidered green fabric turned out to be 1-1/2 yards of sequinned and three-dimensional designer fabric. I'll guess this cost somewhere between $20.00 to $30.00 a yard, and it's in pristine condition. But here's a shot of everything in the lot, which is mostly crafty odds and ends with a small amount of cotton fabrics, a large amount of synethetic fabrics, and some other surprises. The original owner of these was probably a Catholic school teacher; these beads, crosses and medallions are the kind of rosary kits for kids to make at Sunday school or Bible camp (and s...

Love Means This

Invested in a couple of hand-dyed bundles from one of my favorite fabric artists. This one said "Make me into something for Valentine's Day." So I went for a quilted and embellished tote. I kept thinking about what love means to me as I worked on it. Here's the finished tote. Although I was tempted to embellish with beads and pins, I got sick and only felt well enough to do a little stitching every night. As I worked I thought about how often love seems disappointing to us, especially when it fails to live up to our expectations. But now that I've experienced love in many forms, I can say that it's made me a better person than I might have been without it. Love is a precious thing, and should be appreciated in all its forms. I am very grateful for the love of my guy, my child and my friends who have stuck with me all these years. That's you two, in case you're wondering. :) Also finally found something to do with a ve...