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Feb Reading
Mar. 1st, 2010 06:58 pmHot Dog, A Global History (Bruce Kraig). Just finishing up my food history collection. This book is terrible. No historical detail, no details in general except for easy gross-out stuff like hot dog ingredients. Skippable.
Sex In History (Reay Tannahill). More like the history of marriage. Interesting read. Tannahill writes well and snarky. Some of her theories are little suspect--- I doubt Rome fell because bored housewives shopped too much.
Lover's Knot (Donald Hard) Romance and TERRIBLE. The main character fell at least twice in every chapter. The "British" dialog was along the I-once-saw-a-friend-act-out-a-scene-from-a-British-comedy variety. Also, it was super overwrought. The love interest fell from a wagon and broke his wrist and the Main Character (perhaps jealous he did not get to fall in this particular instance) screamed, "MY GOD!"
Throw in sekrit rape in the past, "evil" chick who's only crime was going after a dude who she thought was into her (he slept with her and agreed to marry her) and really, really, really, really tedious prose (He set and book on the table before him and opened the cover. His eyes began scanning the words on the page.) UGH
Odd Girl Oout (Rachel Simmons) review forthcoming in seperate post. I want to talk about this with a fandom slant.
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia Maclachlan) Cute fluff, no plot.
Sex In History (Reay Tannahill). More like the history of marriage. Interesting read. Tannahill writes well and snarky. Some of her theories are little suspect--- I doubt Rome fell because bored housewives shopped too much.
Lover's Knot (Donald Hard) Romance and TERRIBLE. The main character fell at least twice in every chapter. The "British" dialog was along the I-once-saw-a-friend-act-out-a-scene-from-a-British-comedy variety. Also, it was super overwrought. The love interest fell from a wagon and broke his wrist and the Main Character (perhaps jealous he did not get to fall in this particular instance) screamed, "MY GOD!"
Throw in sekrit rape in the past, "evil" chick who's only crime was going after a dude who she thought was into her (he slept with her and agreed to marry her) and really, really, really, really tedious prose (He set and book on the table before him and opened the cover. His eyes began scanning the words on the page.) UGH
Odd Girl Oout (Rachel Simmons) review forthcoming in seperate post. I want to talk about this with a fandom slant.
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia Maclachlan) Cute fluff, no plot.
