'Scuse Me While I

Meet the Sky was sadly, not as memorable as I would have liked it to have been.  As I wish all books were!  As they all deserve to be, because an author pours out his or her heart on to the page and then puts it out there for all to see.  And so I wish I could remember the books that I read as they deserve to be remembered.  I am sure that others will remember this one.  It just didn't stick with me.
The Carolinas recently faced Hurricane Rita and so this was timely.  I love people who live in Charleston, SC and in Chapel Hill, NC who had to evacuate and so this was on my heart and mind as I read this book.  But still it didn't stick.  Or maybe what did stick was the relationship between the main character, Sophie and Finn.  I didn't like Sophie or Finn as much as I should have, I guess.  I also wish that McCall Hoyle had gone into more of Meredith's story.   I can recommend this book, but for me, it was a four star instead of a five.

SUCH a good story!

I am so glad I became open to westerns.  It was Robert B. Parker who did that for me.  Without Virgil and Everett, I don't think I would have read Some Kind of Courage, and that would have been a shame.  This is a western, for sure.  Full of adventure but also substance.  Dan Gemeinhart is a new-to-me author!

The Longest Race in the World

Wow.  Man.  I have to say The Scorpio Races...I wouldn't want to attend or read about more than one. One Scorpio Race lasts an eternity.  It is the LONGEST race in the world.  I listend to the book and it had to have 23239 disks and last 75 years.  Honestly.  Oh my gosh.  All I could think of was playing a Jones song and have it skip on a record player on "Now the race is on, now the race is on, now the race is on, now the race is on, now the race is on..." you get the idea.
Let me say, everyone I know LOVED this book.  Everyone LOVES the writing.  And Stiefvater is a great writer, okay?  But how could you even tell in this book?  It just went on and on.
The whole book is either people standing on a beach, in a storm shouting, "Kendirck!  Sean Kendrick!" or mucking about in a crappy town shouting, "Katie!  Katie Connelly!"
And speaking of the main character, she's a vulgar little snip and it just isn't becoming.  It reminded me of that Letterman thing..."with racers like this, it is a shame they all can't lose."
So I wrote this when I was listening to disk 5 of 10 and I still feel that same way about the book, but I have seen been reading up on the whole bullying on goodreads thing.  I definately won't put this on goodreads because of that, but it does make me wonder then, what's the point of goodreads at all, if people don't want bad reviews on it?  I don't know.  I certainly don't mean anything bad toward Maggie Stiefvater.  I don't.  I mean, I said she was a great writer.  I just don't like this book.  I did say some negative things about it.  I still think that its pretty bad, especially if you don't like horses.  I mean it isn't that I don't like horses.  I don't want anyone to think that I am bullying horses here.  Maybe I will put this on goodreads and see if I get in trouble.  I honestly don't mean to bully anyone!  I just do think that there is a lot of "Kendrick!  Sean Kendrick!" and "Kate!  Kate Connelly!" in the book, and not much else, that's all.