SBD: spring once more
Mar. 31st, 2008 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksIt's spring again. And Monday again. Time to SBD, if you have anything to share.
I have really mixed feels about Shaken and Stirred...which sounds bad, but is actually better than I've felt about anything else I've read lately. I've abandoned many books lately. Anyway, S&S: I loved the way that NYC was a character in the book. And I liked the hero, Gabe O'Sullivan. I even liked the heroine, Tessa Hart, sometimes. But mostly I thought this book needed to be a full length chick lit novel rather than a category romance. Why? Because it felt like the story O'Reilly was trying to tell was about the heroine's growth (becoming someone she wanted to be) rather than the relationship, which felt (to me) like an afterthought to me. I could believe that Gabe and Tessa were friends and colleagues; I could believe that they ended up in bed based on proximity; the love? Eh, that was a harder sell. Having a third party observe that they'd been subconsciously attracted to each other and in love for ages? The introspection was a bit lacking. And Tessa's characterization of herself as complicated was a bit pretentious -- she didn't strike me as complicated as much as self-absorbed. :shrug:
But still, I liked it enough that I bought a copy of the second book in the O'Sullivan trilogy. B-/C+.
Baseball returns to Balmer today. My expectations for the season are pathetically low. Is a .500 season too much to ask of the Orioles? Sadly, yes, too much to ask for the past 9 or 10 seasons. Yet I will hope for it again. Hope springs eternal and all that...
I have really mixed feels about Shaken and Stirred...which sounds bad, but is actually better than I've felt about anything else I've read lately. I've abandoned many books lately. Anyway, S&S: I loved the way that NYC was a character in the book. And I liked the hero, Gabe O'Sullivan. I even liked the heroine, Tessa Hart, sometimes. But mostly I thought this book needed to be a full length chick lit novel rather than a category romance. Why? Because it felt like the story O'Reilly was trying to tell was about the heroine's growth (becoming someone she wanted to be) rather than the relationship, which felt (to me) like an afterthought to me. I could believe that Gabe and Tessa were friends and colleagues; I could believe that they ended up in bed based on proximity; the love? Eh, that was a harder sell. Having a third party observe that they'd been subconsciously attracted to each other and in love for ages? The introspection was a bit lacking. And Tessa's characterization of herself as complicated was a bit pretentious -- she didn't strike me as complicated as much as self-absorbed. :shrug:
But still, I liked it enough that I bought a copy of the second book in the O'Sullivan trilogy. B-/C+.
Baseball returns to Balmer today. My expectations for the season are pathetically low. Is a .500 season too much to ask of the Orioles? Sadly, yes, too much to ask for the past 9 or 10 seasons. Yet I will hope for it again. Hope springs eternal and all that...
