Monday, July 31, 2006

The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars - Two for one book review

Since it was hotter than hades this weekend I stayed in the air conditioned confines of my living room. And I read. A Lot.

I picked up The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank at the used book store down the street. I started it Sunday morning and finished it Sunday afternoon. It was a good read. Totally not what I expected, it went a little deeper than I thought it would. I think every women can see some point in her life within this book. The main character, Jane, describes in each chapter a moment out of her life. Her loves, her family, her loss, devastation, and triumph. This story proves that "The Rules" of love and dating don't really exist. Each relationship, each person is unique and nothing works according to a given set of rules.



The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust. This was an interesting book. It told two stories, one was about a group of artists that had a studio together. The other story was a mythical tale about how the sun, the moon, and the stars got to be up in the sky. I didn't mind the story but I wouldn't say it was a must read. I like folk tales so I stuck with it to see how that story came out. But the artist parts were not necessarily gripping. I enjoy his Vlad Taltos series a great deal more.

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