Raehink: Regarding Outlander series

I have read all but one (the latest). I enjoyed them. They are long but quite engaging. I liked the whole premise of going back in time and falling in love with someone not in your time. The historical tidbits are accurate. Just know that there is some romance in there...not graphic really but definitely a romance. And sometimes it's as if the author is writing it all tongue-in-cheek. Give the first one a try. You can always put the book down. I thought they were amusing.

Abby: Anyone heard of this series and other tidbits about reading

Lately I haven't been reading as much as I usually do. But I have thought of the topic each month and even chosen books to read. Actually checking them out and reading them has been a different story.

Our ward book club is reading Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle this month so I've started that one and will hopefully finish it. Then maybe I'll watch the movie? So that fits the month we did books turned into movies. :)

I tried to start a series by Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth. I was sad that I ended up not wanting to finish it. I read about half of the first book. The story was a fun story and I would have loved to follow the series, but it was also really bloody/nasty whenever it came to battles or scenes with the bad guy. Oh well. Plenty more fish in the pond, right? :D

An acquaintance recently recommended Diana Gibaldi's Outlander series. Have any of you read it? Do you recommend it? I'd rather not waste my time if it's not worth it.

Mostly I've been reading tidbits of the scriptures, conference talks, Happiest Baby on the Block, A Beasty Story, Go Away Big Green Monster, and The Secret Garden. It's obvious where my time has been focused of late, isn't it?

Lynness- FYI on Baroness Emmuska Orczy

I was curious enough to look up why she turned to writing and it turns
out that they did have very little money, so she wrote to support her
family.
Her parents were Hungarian, and left the country during a peasant
revolt. She lived in several places but eventually London, where she
met her husband in a school of art. He was an illustrator and the son
of a clergyman: i.e.- not much money. So she wrote. She eventually
made enough money writing that they were eventually able to buy an
estate in Monte Carlo.
Anyway, just thought I'd share...

Lynness-oops

Oops, sorry- that last post was me- I forgot to put my name on it in the
title or anywhere.

March read

    I read The Scarlet Pimpernel as intended.  It wasn't stellar, and there were some corny parts, but it was still enjoyable.  Afterward Nathan and I watched the A&E version of the movie.  I had hoped it would stick to the book, but it only did in the most basic and broad ways- we didn't really enjoy it that much.
    I wonder what people thought of a Baroness writing novels.  Did it make a sensation?  Was it just for enjoyment, or did she have to supplement their inheritance/income?

Rae- I haven't read any of Michael Pollan's other books, but I checked one out last month and still haven't had time to read it.
    I tried reading the Professor and the Madman once upon a time, thinking it would be right up my alley, but I just couldn't seem to get into it.  I don't remember why.  And, possibly, it wasn't even the book itself- I may have just had too much going on.  Maybe I'll have to give it another try.
    I still have my dissection book (we used Clemente's, not Grey's, since it lent itself better to doing the actual dissection and preparation of cadavers for others to learn from, which was the whole point of the class)- it still has stains on it and smells like formalin.  I just look at it and think how much I used to know!!

Rae: April Reading

OK, folks...this one's an easy one. April will be the month to support your local library. Go to the library and select at least one fiction and one non-fiction title of your choice. Read them. Report back. Have fun.

Happy Spring!

Happy reading!

Lynness- March read

    March is Marching by in quick time... between the four of us, we've got 6 doctor/dentist/midwife appointments this month (...so far...).  3 of them were today.  (Ultrasound for me-girl!!, sick visit for Isaiah-strep throat, and dentist for Nathan).  That was entirely unintentional, but at least they're over with.  So I finally got around to looking at the March assignment yesterday and thought that the subject was pretty broad and that I could easily find something on my bookshelf I hadn't read.  I picked The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy.  I've seen a few minutes of a movie version (come to think of it, that would've worked well for last month- and I will probably watch it after I read it, if I can find the movie) and know the very basics of the story, but that's all.  I think I'll like it and it shouldn't take too long.
    On the subject of reading- Isaiah found my old copy of The Boxcar Children at my mom's this past weekend and read it.  I reserved the next 2 at the library and Nathan and the kids picked it up last night and he's already done with one.  I thought that might be a series Autumn or Reed might be interested in reading- with parents or without.