I’m editing the blog at the moment — as you may have noticed.

While I was doing that, I realized my list of the Nocturne Series was getting WAY out of hand; I had to do something about it.
Yes, there was a longass list on one page, which you could just scroll (and scroll, and scroll…) down, but it made it difficult to read.
It’s still there, but split up now.

I may do it to the others too, if they get out of hand, but I doubt they will.

I also had J.V. Jones’s Book 3 in the "Sword of Shadows" series delivered today.
Talk about a slow writer! I only had to wait 6 years for this one!

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
ISBN 039456152X

!!!

Ok.

If you are female, and you have not read this book… shame on you. You must have been living under a rock someplace.

Cleo Threadgoode, an octagonarian, tells frustrated, menopausing and terribly terribly tense Evelyn Couch about her life.

Sounds like a right load of drivel, doesn’t it?

In her mind, Cleo escapes back to her home of Whistlestop, Alabama, in the early thirties. She tells the tale of the town, the people, the events… the barbeque, the cafe… and the occasional murder.
It is a riveting tale, interspersed with Evelyn’s own struggle to come to terms with her own life, while she listens to this 80 year old lady, who sort of adopted her.
It’s funny, it’s tragic, it’s macabre… it is full of life.
You will hear about Idgie, about Ruth. You will meet Sipsy and big George. And most of all, you will fall in love with the characters.

I’m tellin ya… The secret’s in the sauce…

I’d give this one a 15 on a 10 scale.

Dangerous Temptation
Kathleen Korbel
ISBN-13: 9780373617494

This is kind of a quirky book. I like the premise, though I have to say, from the back blurb I expected something slightly different.
Not to worry, I enjoyed reading about fairies and elves and leprechauns… and finally I understand about that pot of gold!
Let me just say… they have *nothing* in common with Tinkerbell.

The hero thinks he is dreaming for quite some time - understandable since he just fell off a Cairn. Nuala is very likable, so is Zeke. I like how Ms. Korbel didn’t try to make him a die hard skeptic who couldn’t believe what’s in front of him. He’s open, puzzled and unsure, but open to the possibility that it might just not be a dream, that he really is in the land of the fairies and that the woman he is falling in love with is really the daughter of the fairy queen.
Never mind that it means he can’t have her. He can’t stay, either. Trouble is, Mommy dear - the Queen - has slightly different ideas about how this is all going to end. I did outguess the tests - but it was ok. It didn’t spoil things.
Since I don’t want to spoil the book for people, I’ll only say these things:

• I want to read any other books she might write about this “universe”.
• I want Liam’s story. (One line and I want to read about him - well done!)

Anyway, I enjoyed this one, hope you do too, if you read it.