After reading all four of the original Jamie-and-Claire epic time travel love stories and having started the fifth, I took a break to reread ALL of Julia Quinn's novels. These are candy. They make me laugh. They are like old friends.
You may know how this goes....you pick up one book by an author because of convenience...perhaps you're in the waiting room and one is sitting in the basket on the floor by your feet. Or...you're in the car outside of a school (waiting) and one is found under the front seat of your car. Or....you're waiting at a red light and one flies through your open passenger side window, onto your lap...open.... in any event, once you read one page: hooked! Hooked until they are all done...again! As for me...I was looking for something light to read in the bath....Fiery Cross, while very good is not light! It has to weigh over 3 pounds. Not something easy to hold in the bath without dropping it into the water.
I have 19 of the Quinn novels in the home and got to thinking one night about How to Marry a Marquis That's my favorite Quinn novel. The whole premise is a hoot....(these are all historical romance, btw) Poor gal with 3 younger siblings to support finds a book How to Marry a Marquis (the book in the book) Reading it, she decides to practice on the estate manager...who actually is a Marquis...in disguise.
This is the introduction to Lady Danbury, that feisty older woman who shows up in the Bridgerton series. It's also the story of a good friend of characters in To Catch an Heiress. So of course, I then had to reread To Catch an Heiress. When that was done, I just had to reread Emma's, Belle's and Henry's stories again! These are older Quinn novels. More stilted but still a hoot! Many characters show up again and again in later novels....
Splendid: Emma, disguised as a maid, throws herself in front of a carriage to save the Duke of Ashbourne's young nephew.
Dancing at Midnight: Lady Arabella Blydon takes a walk in the woods and finds a mysterious stranger. Well...maybe not so strange. And not long a stranger....
Minx: Henrietta gets a new guardian....how to convince him that he doesn't want to live in the country so that she can get back to managing the estate?
Another related character is Ned Blydon....I haven't reread that book, yet...but I will as soon as I find it!
In the meantime, I've started the Bridgerton series again!
Some background on Julia Quinn: She's not really Julia Quinn. She decided on that name because that would get her books right next to Amanda Quick's (who...most everyone knows is not really named Amanda Quick! Her name is Jayne Krentz!) Julia Quinn started med school...but decided that writing fiction would be a whole lot more fun. Can't argue with that!!!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Sharon Shinn: Archangel best secret in reading!
Hey Joanie, Looks like this is the private blog just for you! Now that you've wiped the tears of laughter from the Peeps Pages...consider picking up a Sharon Shinn SAMARIA book.
There are four of them and they are all wonderful! Readership is split between men and women so you won't find her books in the romance aisle. If you're lucky enough to find her books, they'd be in the sci-fi aisle.
ARCHANGEL Introduces us to a world where the inhabitants must meet on the plains (yearly) to sing praises to their god or face wrath--in the form of devastating lightning bolts. In this world angels fly up to the heavens singing to god to heed their prayers. For example...if they pray for rain...rain comes. If they pray for antibiotics...well...that also rains down from the sky in the form of pellets. The angels marry based on finding their true mates....in which case the inside of their arm will light up. In this novel, the newest archangel-to-be (Gabriel) must find his mate before the yearly sing-fest while the old archangel has fallen away from the beliefs. He's really bad!
JOVAH'S ANGEL Set ahead 150 years during a time when Jovah isn't listening to the songs and prayers of the angels. The newest archangel is replacing Delilah who was crippled and now not interested in helping. There's political unrest, worsening weather and Alleya must find her mate before the next Gloria...in 4 short months!
THE ALLELUIA FILES A novel on the history and background of Samaria...two forces battling each other. Is Jovah a god? Or something else? The Alleluia Files supposedly contains the answers to all these questions. Tamar with the help of Jared, a friendly angel, searches for these files.
ANGELICA Samaria is threatened by armed aliens. Susannah is chosen as the next Angelica (mate of the archangel) More on the background of Jovah and Samaria
ANGEL SEEKER The last Samaria novel. Rebekah and Elizabeth's story. A novel of two (or more!) society's colliding....and the struggle to overcome the obstacles to happiness. This one is a love story and possibly my very favorite. It doesn't really further the story-line of the background of the populating of Samaria or the history of Jovah but still a wonderful novel! I guess my point here is that it's truly a stand-alone novel. It can be read or not to get the full flavor of the Samarian series.
All of these books are available through amazon.com used...some as low as a penny!
What I'm reading this week: Diana Gabaldon's time-travel series....the Jamie and Claire story! These are hefty novels...while it usually takes me one night to read a book, each of these have so far taken at least 3 days! I've finished book 3 VOYAGER and have book 4 DRUMS OF AUTUMN and book 5 FIERY CROSS in stock and ready to read!
There are four of them and they are all wonderful! Readership is split between men and women so you won't find her books in the romance aisle. If you're lucky enough to find her books, they'd be in the sci-fi aisle.
ARCHANGEL Introduces us to a world where the inhabitants must meet on the plains (yearly) to sing praises to their god or face wrath--in the form of devastating lightning bolts. In this world angels fly up to the heavens singing to god to heed their prayers. For example...if they pray for rain...rain comes. If they pray for antibiotics...well...that also rains down from the sky in the form of pellets. The angels marry based on finding their true mates....in which case the inside of their arm will light up. In this novel, the newest archangel-to-be (Gabriel) must find his mate before the yearly sing-fest while the old archangel has fallen away from the beliefs. He's really bad!
JOVAH'S ANGEL Set ahead 150 years during a time when Jovah isn't listening to the songs and prayers of the angels. The newest archangel is replacing Delilah who was crippled and now not interested in helping. There's political unrest, worsening weather and Alleya must find her mate before the next Gloria...in 4 short months!
THE ALLELUIA FILES A novel on the history and background of Samaria...two forces battling each other. Is Jovah a god? Or something else? The Alleluia Files supposedly contains the answers to all these questions. Tamar with the help of Jared, a friendly angel, searches for these files.
ANGELICA Samaria is threatened by armed aliens. Susannah is chosen as the next Angelica (mate of the archangel) More on the background of Jovah and Samaria
ANGEL SEEKER The last Samaria novel. Rebekah and Elizabeth's story. A novel of two (or more!) society's colliding....and the struggle to overcome the obstacles to happiness. This one is a love story and possibly my very favorite. It doesn't really further the story-line of the background of the populating of Samaria or the history of Jovah but still a wonderful novel! I guess my point here is that it's truly a stand-alone novel. It can be read or not to get the full flavor of the Samarian series.
All of these books are available through amazon.com used...some as low as a penny!
What I'm reading this week: Diana Gabaldon's time-travel series....the Jamie and Claire story! These are hefty novels...while it usually takes me one night to read a book, each of these have so far taken at least 3 days! I've finished book 3 VOYAGER and have book 4 DRUMS OF AUTUMN and book 5 FIERY CROSS in stock and ready to read!
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