Bookslide II: Electric Bookaloo

I’m getting error messages everywhere since the move, but it seems that even though it LOOKS like I’m failing when I post, I’m not. I think it has something to do with the layout.

So I’m going to catch up now.

Two weeks ago (I AM sorry about that), I read The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle–oh, fantastic, one of the things I can’t do now is hotlink. *sigh* I’m going to pop the Amazon links at the bottom of the post then, and drop a letter to a prof or two.

I’ve heard this book referred to as the greatest mystery ever and such, but I enjoyed the earlier Holmes novels more, Sign of Four, etc. There’s a chunk where Holmes is not on-screen where I must admit I grew a little bored, and it didn’t seem like a very difficult mystery either. Maybe soon I’ll get back to the short stories (because I like having the short stories to read before bed during the school year) and be happier, but I have to say, it hasn’t been the same since the incident at the Falls.

Then I read one of my daughter’s books, Spider-Man and Power Pack: Big City Superheroes. I think bringing back Power Pack for the kids’ adventures was the best thing for Marvel to do. I’m so glad my daughter has so much to read–although I’m still iffy about Franklin Richards now being a Calvin (of …and Hobbes fame) clone. Anyway, it was fun. Spider-Man gets turned into a little kid! Yay!

And then I finished up the week with Elizabeth Lowell’s Moving Target, which wasn’t as bad as Lori Foster but I sure didn’t like it. Now, of course, it’s been two weeks, and I’m trying to remember the specific details. Let’s see. Well, the hero says “woody”–once to the heroine. Maybe Lowell’s husband says that to her, but I’ve never heard a guy who was romantically interested in me speak so crudely–well, if he did, the interest certainly wasn’t returned. Oh, and he describes things as “girly” twice in about 50 pages, once with two girls talking and once with…the way he worries she’s going to act? The thing is, this guy keeps switching from being New Age Sensitive Hero to being fairly insulting on a dime. Oh, and then the “witty banter” is…just not witty. At all. Ugh. I had no idea what anyone was talking about. A GOOD writer turns that into characters having a world of their own, so you have the sense they exist without you, a language they developed over time. In this case, I was just like “…Buh?” and kept reading. It was painful to keep reading though. That’s the last Lowell book I pick up.

Here are your links:

http://www.amazon.com/Hound-Baskervilles-Aladdin-Classics-Arthur/
dp/068983571X/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-6926716-4059069?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185624737&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Power-Pack-Big-City-Heroes/
dp/0785123571/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6926716-4059069?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185624991&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Moving-Target-Elizabeth-Lowell/
dp/0061031070/ref=sr_1_2/103-6926716-4059069?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185625170&sr=1-2

Got some things to do, will try to get XII up later today, but after that, I’m AFK bigtime.

Ah, the vacation part of my vacation…

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