I hope I haven't missed one...

[derien]

Not sure if I had already posted a book 4, but going back I don't see it. Since I pretty much read all these following books simultaneously I'll give them a random order:

4) "Lady Cottington's Fairy Album," 'verified by' Brian Froud - This was a fun book, and I was surprised at how well the two characters of the younger and elder Lady Cottingtons came through. The basic premise is that Euphenia (I think that was her name) took photographs of fairies and posted them in this album with short journal entries about what was going on in her life and with the fairies. She apparently died of influenza and her much younger sister, Angelica, later found the album and wrote her own entries opposite her sister's, commenting on things Euphenia did.

5) "Big Fish," Daniel Wallace - I guess I don't get why this book is so well liked. The edition I have has questions in the back, as though it's for a class. And I'm just like "...what?" It's a series of short stories about this guy's father as though he's some mythological being.

6) "Unseen Academicals," Terry Pratchett - Fun, but I didn't like it as much as I like most Pratchett books. Although the bit Tronella objected to (where Ridcully thinks that the reason it's said that 'a lie can run around the world before Truth can get it's boots on' is because Truth is a woman and can't decide which boots to wear) didn't bother me so much as it did her, perhaps because I assume that this sort of sexist thinking is proper for Ridcully's character. No, what I objected to in this book was the assumption that there's something important about Fashion, and that it's not a problem if women are lured to spend all their money on beauty products. Well, and I do think it wasn't up to his usual standards of story-telling. Too much of things just sort of happening just as they have to and people suddenly just saying what they need to. At one point a character has a sort of mental/emotional breakdown so as to reveal a bunch of stuff to his friends and there doesn't seem to be any instigating factor that caused this breakdown... it was just time for them to learn this stuff. Gosh I'm picky. I really DID enjoy reading it a LOT, honestly - there was a lot of giggling going on behind my book.

I'm also still reading "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" by Dr. Amen, and "Triple Witch" by Susan Graves.

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P.S. ab out Big Fish, I haven't read it, but some men are like that about their fathers. My dad's dad walked out before he was born, but the way he talks about his grandfather is like he's a mythical hero or something. The man was 7 foot tall and almost equally as wide and used to run off piers and dive into the freezing water for a swim up into his late 70s. And he had a massive ship tattooed on his chest too!