Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella

Total fluff, but I loved it! If you've read SK's books then you know that she has a basic formula too--nice girl gets herself into some kind of pickle, meets a great guy but covers real truth to the guy, pickle explodes, girl loses guy because of pickle exploding, then girl fixes everything and finds her true self in the end and then gets the guy. LOVE IT! :0) It was funny and entertaining as usual. I think I've now read all of the books she's published except for the ones under the other pseudonym.

Eragon by Christopher Paoni

I listened to this book about a boy dragon rider who doesn't know he's a dragon rider until he discovers a dragon egg. It's very sci-fi-ish, but I did enjoy the story and will listen to the next in the series. I do admit that I kind of got bored with the end and thought that maybe Paoni didn't need to put as much detail as he did. I understand why he did that (much in the same way JK Rowling had to create Harry's world through the Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets), I was distracted there towards the end. Very entertaining and well-written.

Borderline by Nevada Barr

Ok so I really do love the Anna Pigeon series as you might already know by reading this, if you do read this, anyone? anyone? ok sorry. This book took place in Big Bend NP on the Texas/Mexican border. The premise was ok--Anna and Paul go on a raft trip together with some people and then they find a woman that's washed up on the river who is almost dead. Well she dies (sorry to spoil it), but she's pregnant and Anna ends up delivering the baby via c-section with a pocket knife. Yea, I know kinda corny. This one was pretty corny the whole way through and I had figure it out who the bad guy was pretty soon into the book. I have to say it was ok. Not a horrible read, but not one of the greatest.