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Book Review: Dead In The Family

September 14, 2010 by

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^ That is how I feel about book #10 in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

I curse myself for being a loser and wanting to “finish” the series. Damn me for being a loser and lasting _this_ long in the series.

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris is the latest book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I think they’re officially called the Southern Vampire Mysteries, but at this point, who the eff cares. They’re the “Sookie” books, in my book (no pun intended). At this point, it doesn’t matter anymore.

Anyway, in this book, Sookie has survived the fairy war. Look, friends, I don’t even remember book #9 because it’s been so long since I read that. But I’m pretty sure it sucked, too. (Not as much as this one!) I’m not sure if the following statement is a spoiler but I’ll add the [spoiler] tag anyway: [Spoiler] Her cousin Claude moves in; blah blah something about Sam; something about Eric and his maker; and Jason has grown a brain stem and is actually “responsible.” Well, at least he evolved a little bit. Guess he had to be bit to grow. /snark

Do you remember when I had this book back in the summer? This was book #14. (I’m on books #21 and 22 right now.) It was so hard to get through, I had to return it to the library. I couldn’t renew it after three weeks because it was a popular book on hold. So I put the book back on my Holds list… because there is no way I am going to read 3/4 of the book and not finish it to count it in my “50 in 2010″ Challenge. Note to self: Stop complaining. This is a review, not a whine.

I can’t even really summarize the story because THERE IS NO STORY. Sookie runs around and it sounds like she’s helping but really it’s just a lot of wheel spinning… sound familiar? In the end, I was annoyed and I just didn’t care anymore. Not even about Pam or Eric! And they’re my favorite characters! Nothing really happened. Sure, some people died. (Not a spoiler by now, right?) But nothing. There was no movement. I could have had a bowel movement and it would have been more epic.

This felt like it was a “I need to pay my cable bill so I’m just going to whip one out” book by Harris. Dare I say it? I think it might even rank lower than Breaking Dawn!

As my friend Eric (human, not vampire) would say, “This was ig’nant.”

Grade: F-

Recommend: NO

Borrow or Buy: Neither

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Book Interrupted: Dead in the Family

July 21, 2010 by

Well, I took so long to read Dead In the Family that the library sent me a note saying it was due and I couldn’t renew it. (It’s on the popular holds list.)

Translation: It’s such a boring book that it took me three weeks to get about 3/4 in. Thanks, Charlaine Harris, for wasting my time.

Here’s a mini-review: This is lazy writing that drags a story out. This series started to go downhill around Book 3 or 4, and here we are at Book 10. It takes forever to set this up, but why should you really? We’re already on Book 10. Sookie is pretty hard to like, and all she likes to yap about is sex with [spoiler] Eric. I’m glad I didn’t buy any of these semi-romance novels. What happened to the spunky Sookie? I’m going back to The Girl Who Played with Fire.

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

But no, I have to finish it. I’m almost there and I don’t want to start over with another book in my count. So, it goes back in my Holds queue at the library. #187! Good lord, I’m running into a lot of irony lately.

187, get it? The code for murder.

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50-in-2010 Update

July 5, 2010 by

I created a new page for my list of books for 2010. It was starting to be a pain to write it in a word doc and save that file, and then open it whenever I wanted to see the list. I don’t know about you but I don’t like to running a lot of programs at the same time. Especially since Office usually sucks up a lot of battery life on my laptop.

So here is the official list of books completed and not completed.

I’m currently taking a break from The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larson. Honestly, I’m bracing myself and trying to avoid psycho violence against women… again… described in a book. The first book, while awesome and revenge-ry, had  A LOT of BRUTAL violence against women, and it was really tough to get through.

And what does one read to get one’s mind away from realistic violence against women? This.

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

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WIRI Update 6/6/10

June 6, 2010 by

Hey guys, just a quick note that I _will_ be posting more soon! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks and coming home, I just don’t want to think about what I want to write. (Glad there’s Twitter to shoot 140-character messages!)

Running – I’m kind of keeping up with my running. Last week was crap. I hit some hills in Chatsworth during Memorial Day weekend, which kicked my ass but felt good to change things up. I did a 7-mile long run on Monday and a short 3-miler yesterday. And today I’m just trying to get some mileage in, so I hit 6.42 miles.

After weeks of not icing my legs, I’ve paid the pain price. I’m now icing my knees and shins like there’s no tomorrow.

Reading – I finished Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison. This was book #4 of a series and book #11 or #12 of my goal. I’m done with this series. More on that after I’ve reviewed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson. I’m now on to Book #2 by Larson – The Girl Who Played with Fire. I’m Hold #29477593028011 on both the Santa Monica Public Library and LA Public Library for the audiobook. Sad.

Robots – Not a lot of sci-fi I’ve been watching. We re-watched Sunshine with a few friends who had never seen it. However, Jen generously invited me to the True Blood Ultimate Fan event early last week. We got to see bits of the third season and a live Q&A with the cast.

Shopping – I picked up my first Rebecca Minkoff bag via Gilt! It was also my first purchase on Gilt Groupe, which I think is one of the best flash sale sites there are out there. I lurves my MAB Mini. It’s dove grey – a perfect color for summer/casual dress.

You can bet I didn't pay full price for this!

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