I got through lots of books on holiday. Many of them were re-reads.
By the shores of silver lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder. These are the books when Laura is beginning to grow up. I think she is 14 in this one, and taking a lot of responsibility for helping Ma and Pa when she can.
I love the descriptions of food and the way the houses are built up. I love the evocation of the prairie and that certain time when the settlers were just beginning to make a town.
Buffy Season Eight volume one by Joss Whedon. I dunno...I want to see how this pans out. It feels a little bit convoluted at the moment, too many threads or something. I liked the story about the fake Buffy going into the underworld, but the whole Dawn-is-giant thing kinda reeks of "Look! We couldn't do this on the show!"
I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it.
Extras the unexpected fourth book in Scott Westerfield's Uglies series. This is set in a city in Japan where instead of currency they have a 'Reputation Economy', everyone has a digital feed and are trying to be popular. The more people watch your feed, the more benefits you get in society (housing, pretty surgery, clothes, etc).
I loved it, he's just so good at doing the future which is at the same time completely out there and completely plausible.
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was both looking forward to and dreading re-reading this one. It's very scary how hard that winter was, and how desperate you feel for the whole family.
I love the way Laura describes her own feelings "Laura felt numb and stupid, she felt like the winter would never end". The tragedy when it is simply too cold for Pa to play his fiddle to cheer everyone up, and the pay off at the end when spring comes and they finally receive their Christmas barrel.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares.
I think I've watched the movie too much, I kept getting confused when the story diverged from that of the movie.
I can see why they changed Lena's story, filmically it's not very interesting to watch someone be paralysed by fear for several months, but the 'Romeo and Juliet' slant made sense for her romance storyline.
The girls are all the actresses from the film in my head though, which is fine. I think I still love Bee the most of all.
Second Summer of the Sisterhood the first book ends so sadly I wanted to go on to the second one straight away. I'm still only part way through it but I see why I can't remember much about this volume. It's a lot of filler...Bee's story develops but Lena and Tibby are pretty much dealing with the fallout from the first book and Carmen's Mother finds love is not exactly thrilling. That said, it's all very involving somehow. I guess you care about these characters so much by now that you want to know what happens, even if it isn't Earth-shattering.
Next on the list is Outcast, the new Michelle Paver pre-historic action adventure.
PoF: sporty/slobby
CO: Giffy's slow cooker