Book Review and catch up

She Did a Bad, Bad Thing by Stephanie Bond

I like a good Plain Jane story. I love it in historical novels when the rake falls hard for a home and hearth style of heroine. This story was kind of a mixture of that, and a transformation story, but not really, because deep down though she changed her outward appearance, Jane remained the same. As the author put it, Jane got in touch with her inner wild woman (who had always been there).

At first I wondered if the hero would be able to redeem himself. He was a bit of a toad to Jane in the beginning, but he fell for her in all the right ways and I forgave him because she came to mean everything to him.

Jennie

That's my final book review for the weekend. I treated myself with a fair amount of reading this weekend, mostly because I had an exploding head episode Thursday that just wouldn't quit. I feel it's finally starting to ease tonight -- I hope I'm not imagining that. I hope to get back into a better routine this coming week but I am on target (just) with my writing goal for the week just gone.

I also reacted very predictably to the sudden cooler weather by a) wishing I had time to go shopping for clothes (something I never think in hot weather because at heart I am a 'winter' girl) and b) printing out a knitting pattern a friend posted to a forum earlier this week and buying the wool for it. It may well prove too hard for this modest knitter. I can follow patterns if I try hard, but I haven't knitted anything with four needles in a 'round' pattern before. Still, I'm going to give it a go - once I've bought the needles. That will require a trip to Spotlight. Maybe Wednesday?

Jennie