*blinks blearily*
Jan. 31st, 2008 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I'm tired. I stayed up till 3 a.m. reading, since a new book arrived from Amazon yesterday. It wasn't quite what I was expecting -- it was recommended by Library Journal, after all -- but it was quite cute. Fluffy, charming, and rather hot. Made me LOL more than once. So go to the library and find Cathie Linz's Big Girls Don't Cry.
Summary from Amazon: "After her plus-size modeling career tanks, Leena Riley becomes a receptionist in her hometown veterinarian's office. Too bad the vet is Cole Flannigan, a boy who taunted her all through school. Good thing Leena has grown into her curves, because he's about to grow very fond of her."
LBPL didn't have a copy, so I impatiently ordered it; with a summary like that, I wasn't about to let myself forget this one without a fight. This appears to be part of a series. I shall have to look for Linz's other books, though I think I'll audition them via the library, before I buy them.
Verdict: 4 out of 5. I did like a lot of the book, but not everything. A lot is told, rather than shown: Cole is supposedly the town's playboy, but we don't see a single ex-girlfriend (just a predatory harpy) or anything else to back up this factoid. All we see is that he's a skilled flirt. (Well, he's good in bed, too, but as this is a romance novel, I feel rather idiotish for thinking it's necessary to point that out. They're ALWAYS good in bed, like Severus.) I'll be keeping the book, and I don't regret spending more than ten bucks for its purchase and delivery.
BTW, I thought the word "snarky" wasn't commonly used, but reading it in this book made me sit bolt upright in bed. The term seems to be making its way into the world of normal people. (Where did it start? Did Snape fans come up with the word, or did we get it from somewhere else?)
Edit: I stand corrected. The words "snark" and "snarky" have been around a long time, it seems. I just hadn't noticed them before I started reading Snapefic.
I'm tired. I stayed up till 3 a.m. reading, since a new book arrived from Amazon yesterday. It wasn't quite what I was expecting -- it was recommended by Library Journal, after all -- but it was quite cute. Fluffy, charming, and rather hot. Made me LOL more than once. So go to the library and find Cathie Linz's Big Girls Don't Cry.
Summary from Amazon: "After her plus-size modeling career tanks, Leena Riley becomes a receptionist in her hometown veterinarian's office. Too bad the vet is Cole Flannigan, a boy who taunted her all through school. Good thing Leena has grown into her curves, because he's about to grow very fond of her."
LBPL didn't have a copy, so I impatiently ordered it; with a summary like that, I wasn't about to let myself forget this one without a fight. This appears to be part of a series. I shall have to look for Linz's other books, though I think I'll audition them via the library, before I buy them.
Verdict: 4 out of 5. I did like a lot of the book, but not everything. A lot is told, rather than shown: Cole is supposedly the town's playboy, but we don't see a single ex-girlfriend (just a predatory harpy) or anything else to back up this factoid. All we see is that he's a skilled flirt. (Well, he's good in bed, too, but as this is a romance novel, I feel rather idiotish for thinking it's necessary to point that out. They're ALWAYS good in bed, like Severus.) I'll be keeping the book, and I don't regret spending more than ten bucks for its purchase and delivery.
BTW, I thought the word "snarky" wasn't commonly used, but reading it in this book made me sit bolt upright in bed. The term seems to be making its way into the world of normal people. (Where did it start? Did Snape fans come up with the word, or did we get it from somewhere else?)
Edit: I stand corrected. The words "snark" and "snarky" have been around a long time, it seems. I just hadn't noticed them before I started reading Snapefic.
