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Originally Posted by Elsi
For the next week or two, I'm going to concentrate on the bookring books that I need to read and get on their way to the next readers. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson, Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult, and the Fear Trilogy by Kay Hooper (Hunting Fear, Chill of Fear, and Sleeping With Fear.) These are, of course, paper books.
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Urp! While I did get started on the Fear Trilogy, I haven't touched the rest of the bookring books. Since I've been concentrating on books that I owe in various book swaps, I haven't been reading too much on either the Kindle or the Sony reader. I've been stuck reading *paper* books!
- 130. After Long Silence by Sherri S Tepper (7 Dec, MMP) - owed in a swap
- 131. MaidenFlight by Bianca D'Arc (10 Dec, Kindle)
- 132. Master of the Night by Angela Knight (12 Dec, MMP) -owed in a swap
- 133. The Parting by Beverly Lewis (14 Dec, TP) - owed in a swap
- 134. The Forbidden by Beverly Lewis (16 Dec, TP) - sequel to The Parting and I'm sending it as a bonus
- 135. Kingdom of Cages by Sarah Zettel (19 Dec, MMP) - owed in a swap
Of these books, the only ones that I really enjoyed were
After Long Silence and
Kingdom of Cages, both superb SF novels.
MaidenFlight was a novella offered for free at Amazon.com; the print edition contained the first two novellas in this series. The story line was fair, the premise was promising, but the explicit sex scenes ruined the book for me. I won't spend anything to obtain the rest of the series.
The Parting and
The Forbidden were disappointing. The setting is an Amish community in 1966 and the author used this context for (in my opinion) blatant evangelization as her primary characters leave their strict community and its
Ordnung in favor of a salvation-based New Order. I prefer the approach that Jodi Picoult took in
Plain Truth which based the plot more heavily on the conflict between an Amish way of life and that of the modern world.
I'm currently reading
Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper; second in the Fear Trilogy. I'll then finish this trilogy, read the other two bookring books, and then I'm going to pick out some books that I want to read just for the heck of it. One good thing about participating in the bookrings and swaps is that it does guide my choice of next book(s) to read.