Finished Mistral's Kiss

Two day fluff--I finished it last night.  I was really expecting better.  But the ending makes me happy.  I'm hoping for more interesting things for the next book.

Have now started The Double Comfort Safari Club (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 11.  It will be nice to sojourn with Mma Ramotswe in her gentle world awhile.  She is looking for a tour guide who treated an American woman very well during her visit and has bequeathed him a small sum.  Mma Makutsi's fiance has had a disfiguring accident...  The world, though gentle, is always interesting.

Finished A Storm of Swords

Whew!  Such emotional turmoil Martin has put me through!  The last few chapters moved so fast my head is reeling!  The books are great.  Since I am so invested in the characters, I find myself living in their world, trying to predict what will happen next (I am never right) and starving to get back to them while away.

So, I'm on to a light erotic fantasy--Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Officially Angry with George R. R. Martin!

If you are going to make me fall in love with characters, enjoying my visits with them a great deal, DO NOT KILL THEM OFF.  And, if you must kill them off, create others that I like equally as much.  OK, he may be doing the latter.  But I was having trouble sleeping last night because I was grieving!

Nearly half through A Storm of Swords

This is NOT a world I love to visit.  It is a terrifying world full of evil and greed.  But, like The Lord of the Rings, it has great characters struggling against enormous odds, and I love to visit them.  This book is even better than the last two, though, for the most part we are still in the deteriorating action.  Terrible things are happening and are going to happen, and I've got to get back to it right now!

Finished BURNED

Well, I'm happier with the Casts now than I was when I finished the last book in this series.  This book exemplified the qualities of hopefulness and morality that characterize this series (as well as much of fantasy literature.)  The House of Night series is back to a world I love to visit. 

I have now started A Storm of Swords, the third book in the Game of Thrones series.  This will take me awhile...it is over 1000 pages.  The second season of the HBO series spilled over into this third book and I am not yet beyond where it left off.  I'm on p 52.

Finished one, Started another

I finished Tab Hunter's autobiography.  I enjoy these celebrity bios on two levels.  First, I have fun remembering when I was and what I was doing at the time each movie came out.  Second, I can draw from memories of my own "acting career" (as small as it was) to both understand the actor's experiences and add to my own understanding of acting and the creation of ensemble art.  I find it great fun.

Now I have started Burned, by P. C. and Kristin Cast, the seventh book in the House of Night series.  The last of these books ended in a horrible cliffhanger that I wasn't sure I was going to forgive the authors for, but now, several months later, I just want to know what happens next.  :-)

P 252 of Tab Hunter's autobiography

Although once or twice I have found myself wondering if a certain account wasn't a bit self-serving (I never heard any other side of the same story, so who's to say), for the most part I continue to find this very genuine, sweet, and often funny, often poignant.  There is a picture showing some of the filming of Ride the Wild Surf that is downright hilarious.  Every time I think about it, I start giggling again.

I am enjoying his accounts of making certain movies so much that I just visited Amazon and picked up four of them.