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fleaI brought a couple of paperbacks from the giveaway pile at work home with me last night. Casper picked up one, which has a castle on the cover, and started flipping through the pages and "reading" the story to her brother. It was about a blueberry princess who lived in a blueberry castle with PILES of blueberries. But then a moving van came and took everything and she moved to a STRAWBERRY castle. The end.
The other one I read:
Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (2005). This is a modern "cosy" - i.e. a Britain-set mystery where nobody is killed and there's a village and they gossip and everything is charming. It is well written and pleasant to read, but completely Mary Sue (the heroine is an American who inherited large sums of money and a British cottage from an unknown benefactor, married a wealthy Brahmin (Boston variety) lawyer, had adorable and rambunctious twin sons who are safely in the care of a nanny so don't interfere with the plot, volunteers all over the place, oh yeah, she's the proprietress of a charitable foundation... it's not clear whether she can sing and her violet eyes are not specifically mentioned, but I'm sure they exist.) Anyway, easy fluff, very quick read. You can see why it's like, 10th in the series.
The other one I read:
Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin (2005). This is a modern "cosy" - i.e. a Britain-set mystery where nobody is killed and there's a village and they gossip and everything is charming. It is well written and pleasant to read, but completely Mary Sue (the heroine is an American who inherited large sums of money and a British cottage from an unknown benefactor, married a wealthy Brahmin (Boston variety) lawyer, had adorable and rambunctious twin sons who are safely in the care of a nanny so don't interfere with the plot, volunteers all over the place, oh yeah, she's the proprietress of a charitable foundation... it's not clear whether she can sing and her violet eyes are not specifically mentioned, but I'm sure they exist.) Anyway, easy fluff, very quick read. You can see why it's like, 10th in the series.