The thrilling adventure of Which Books Will Make It to Nanaimo!
This edition: Mystery and Romance
I did the romances too, though I don't know what to add to the pot. Probably just a thin Crusie, a Phillips, and a book called Indiscretion with good reviews. As I've said, I have quite a few ebook romances. I culled 16 Regencies, many of which I tried but couldn't get into it. Let's face it, if I want Regency I'll just reread Heyer.
I've decided to try reading Outlander before I leave Montreal. This way it won't take up space, but I can find out why it was the Da Vinci code of the mid 90s, and yet some people DETEST it. Let's hope I don't like it, cause I'm not sure I can read 800 pages before leaving, unless I skim. [Outlander in Hebrew, Japanese and... I forget.]
Haley's calling for her supper and I have to charge the ipad. Then I'll consider starting on the insanely bulging SFF shelves. Fernando's always bringing boxes of them home from the hospital. I also want to spread them out so he can see what's there AND READ SOME OF THEM while I'm gone.
Will report back. ...Coming Haley!
LATER: Okay forget Outlander. I opened it a third of the way in, read 20 pages, and quite literally hit my first joke about Jamie's big Scottish dirk. Plus all those dinnas and cannaes, it's like reading Oor Wully.
LATER Okay I read the belt scene, the rapey torture, and the summary on wiki. Can finally get Outlander out of my life!
CAT PHOTO!
cats is better thn books
3 comments:
Please tell Fernando he's doing it backwards.
Here's my thought: When I worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital, I donated a lot of my books to their patient library. [Well some books that I wish I'd kept, actually.]
But the good idea here is that hospital patients can use good books, but need books that are easy to get into and that will hold their interest. So I would box up a whole line of mysteries or SciFi by the same author and donate boxes at a time. It did clear space on my shelves and it was something the hospital could really use.
I realize clearing your shelves isn't the primary goal right now, but you might notice you have a bunch of romances or mysteries or SciFi that the hospital librarian might be thrilled to have.
It's been a long time since I read the Outlander serries, but I recall liking it at the time. Now I have to ponder rereading it.
I like the idea of donating to the hospitals. My dad always picked up a western or three durring his stays. I'll have to remember this when/if--no when I go through the culling process again.
@Maybe I could convince him to start a hospital library, then we won't haveto housee our books here.
@Judie It was very VERY popular, so you weren't alone. I gather they're historically well done, and people just love the romance / the couple.
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