Today… I’ve been busy. If you look at the word busy, the way I do, which is taking the word busy and turning it into I-have-been-doing-something-non-productive-all-day.
And I have.
I know that if Angie is reading, which she is probably not since I think she gave up on this blog a long time ago, she would think; “What the hell have you been up to now?”
That is probably a nice thought… She knows me, and definitely knows that I can do the most strange things if I have nothing else to do.
But at least today, I have read. And watched TV. Sometimes at the same time.
I have read two great books, by two amazing authors. I should probably write about them in the order I read them, so let’s start with Queen of Babble gets hitched by Meg Cabot.
The last QoB
This is yet another example of how Meg Cabot can make us laugh in situations that we do not usually laugh about. Of course we would never laugh if any of this had happened to us, but now they didn’t. So laughing was permitted.
The book features out heroine from the two other books, Lizzie Nichols, a wedding-dress desgner and restorer. We also have her new fiance, his best friend who she spent the night with – and who was still sleeping in her bed when Luke proposed – his ex, and a whole cast of people you will love no matter how hard you try not to.
Even the “skanky crack whore” Ava grows, on you, and that’s BEFORE she changes.
Now, if you’ve read the two previous books (if you haven’t, you should be hedding to your local bookstore or library) you’ll know that Lizzie seemed to have found love in book #1, and we all tought so too. Luke was easy to love, he was simply perfect. Absolutely perfect. (Now, that is where our warning bells should have gone off. No hero is perfect) He was richand his family owns a few castles if my memory servs me right. He obviosuly loved LIzzie, and after a perfect (here comes that word again) moment on a wine … thing, you thought the happy ending was coming.
Then is book #2, Shari turns out to be gay, and takes it up with her boss Pat, leaving Chad. Chad however, is also in love. This is where you shout; “I know who!”, because there is no need for me to tell you. Lixxie of course.
Lizzie and Luke also run into some bad trouble, where Lizzie realizes that Luka is not the one for her. She and Chad decides to spend New Years eve together and…. things, but not too much since everbody were still wearing clother the morning after happened.
And then Luke proposes and…. The book ends.
I was so upset about that.
But now we finally have an ending, and if I might say it myself, Good Work Miz Cabot. You chose the right guy.
But I won’t tell you who.
The new book I read, was Suite Scarlett by dear secret sister Maureen.
Suite Scarlett cover
Even though I love Meg and has read most of what she has published, I must say I liked this book better. QoB is great, but I have always found Lizzie a little stupid. A little too nice almost.
Suite Scarlett was a WONDERFUL book. I mass texting my Angie during my time reading this, and she made me promise I would lend the boko to her when she was done. Or course that happened a lot sooner than I thought it would.
I’m not foolin’ anyone. I always do this with books. The ones I love I read in one sitting, only pausing to powder my nose or to actually eat. Or like today, when a movie with a Jacki Chan wannabe started traveling in time. Very distracting.
If I don’t like book sall that very much I forget about them for a while, and then when I start reading them again I have forgotten what they were all about.
But Suite Scarlett was a beautiful book. Scarlett, the heroine, is a daughter two hotel owners, on Manhattan. She has three siblings, all very different, and…
I can’t tell you more. That would ruin a perfectly wonderful book. So read it!
I won’t have it any other way.
And there will be another book. Or course she is still writing it, so it might take.. oh I don’t, a hundred years for it to come.
Hey, I’m willin’ to wait.
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