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Feb. 7th, 2005 12:03 pmI took back library books yesterday, and realized I had neglected to write a few book reports.
The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant (I think). This was just okay, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
megastoat said. She was also right about the eye-rolling, as it induced that many many times. This is the second book I read in about 2 weeks that dealt in some central way with Savonarola, of whom I knew little about previously (the other was The Rule of Four, which was better, but had a much different approach). Some of the plot "twists" were way too obvious; others just caused massive eyerolling, especially the Revelation at the end of who the Mystery Man was whom she had loved lo these many years.
A Clean Slate, by Laura Caldwell. This *looked* like fluffy chicklit, which I often read and throw across the room (or groan and roll my eyes again many times) but sometimes secretly enjoy. This was.... certainly not that, and not what I expected. It's about a woman who loses her job and her boyfriend *and* a chunk of her memory all at once, causing her to set her life on an entirely new path. It inspired some interesting questions of What-would-I-do-if-I-lost-everything? (which seems appropriate in light of some of the mental revisions I've been making of my career path in the past week). I actually really liked this - it was clever and funny and smart and *intriguing*. Yay. (She's got another book, which I just checked out from the library - hopefully it will be equally good.)
The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant (I think). This was just okay, as
megastoat said. She was also right about the eye-rolling, as it induced that many many times. This is the second book I read in about 2 weeks that dealt in some central way with Savonarola, of whom I knew little about previously (the other was The Rule of Four, which was better, but had a much different approach). Some of the plot "twists" were way too obvious; others just caused massive eyerolling, especially the Revelation at the end of who the Mystery Man was whom she had loved lo these many years.A Clean Slate, by Laura Caldwell. This *looked* like fluffy chicklit, which I often read and throw across the room (or groan and roll my eyes again many times) but sometimes secretly enjoy. This was.... certainly not that, and not what I expected. It's about a woman who loses her job and her boyfriend *and* a chunk of her memory all at once, causing her to set her life on an entirely new path. It inspired some interesting questions of What-would-I-do-if-I-lost-everything? (which seems appropriate in light of some of the mental revisions I've been making of my career path in the past week). I actually really liked this - it was clever and funny and smart and *intriguing*. Yay. (She's got another book, which I just checked out from the library - hopefully it will be equally good.)
