Friday, February 25, 2011

The Dispossessed - A Non-Review

I woke up this morning and decided to abandon The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.  I've read a third of it and find myself mostly avoiding it, which is not a good thing.

It isn't that I don't like it, exactly. It's more I'm indifferent to it. In all that third of the book, not a bloody thing of note has happened. The character does a lot of soul searching, and comparing of societies and that's pretty much all the action there is. Yeah, he leaves his own planet and goes to another, and for him that's a huge step, but for me it is pretty boring.

Thursday, February 17, 2011


A 4 Star romp begins where Changeless left off. Alexia is preggers and her husband doesn't believe it's his.  Alexia, not one to sit around feeling bad, decides to invade Europe rather than sit around until Connell comes to his senses. He is a werewolf after all.


Everyone needs a Floote. And it wouldn't hurt to be rescued by Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings, either. And Alexia does need rescuing this time. She gets herself into quite a pickle - why, she can't even get a decent up of TEA! Oh, those damn Templars! Although she does discover pesto.

A spirited romp across Europe ends up with our heroine as prisoner in the catacombs of Florence. And where you may ask is Connell? Stuck in London, dealing with vampiric uprisings and disappearances, a brand new werewolf and Ivy Tunstell ne Hisslepenny. No wonder he's in a bad mood.  Also, he knows he's going to have to grovel; and soon.