Bookin' It Thru Life

Oh good god I can't even believe this is on my list.  In a desperate attempt to find something to read when my credit card on file on my Nook had expired and I did not have the energy to go to the library or Barnes'n'Noble or even the paperback aisle at Cub I ordered a free book on the Nook.  In the spirit of you get what you pay for boy did I ever.  This book was everything that I abhor in a novel...a predictable plot, substandard writing, a Christian theme (if the author wrote one more line about a "longing look" I thought I was going to puke) and not much to admire.  It had all the makings of a classic cheap, cheesy romance and if you threw a half naked Fabio on the front with an adorable baby dangling in his arms the package would have been complete.  As it was, the guy on the cover was mostly dressed because, you know, God.  And the story was such standard fair that I could have come up with it in my sleep when I was 13.  Now, I don't mean to disparage th

Having heard of Ishiguro, I was eager to take part in some of his writing.  It was billed as fantasy which it clearly was...there was some magic here, a general forgetting by everyone of everything, a world set post-Arthur with some of the legends still hanging about and drifting in and out of the story...dragons and giants and whatnot...I like his style well enough, I liked the characters well enough, I found their adventures palatable enough...I think I might have missed the point of the ending because did they end up together or not??? so that bugged me a little bit... In a review by Neil Gaiman he describes this book as " a novel that's easy to admire, to respect and to enjoy, but difficult to love"...and I think that's just about right.  Recommend it?  Sure, it was fine.  Insist you should read it?  You won't hear that from me. #5 Good Enough