January Book List

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
The official end of the Traveling Pants series. I thought Girls in Pants was supposed to be the last, but Ann Brashares said at her book signing that she always intended it to be a four-book series. The four girls are separated (as usual), but this time, they realize that being separated has become the rule for them instead of the exception. They're all off at different colleges doing their own things (which include some more adult things this time). When the Pants mysteriously disappear, they all reunite to find them. It's a good and satisfying ending. Though it didn't make me cry, the way the end of Girls in Pants does every time I read it.

Savannah from Savannah and Savannah Comes Undone by Denise Hildreth
In the first of these books, writer Savannah turns down a book deal in favor of going back to her hometown of Savannah and taking a job as a human-interest journalist. She uncovers a beauty-pageant scandal, which may or may not involve her own mom, the former Miss Georgia. In the second book (which picks up immediately after the first), her mom chains herself to a monument of the Ten Commandments after the ACLU threatens to remove it. The whole town gets involved and Savannah is forced to examine who she really is and what she stands for. I liked the first book a LOT better than the second, because Savannah annoyed me through most of the second book. Overall: okay.

The Children of Men by P.D. James*
I just re-read this after seeing the movie. As well-done as the movie is, the book is so much better. I've reviewed it here before, but it's about a future society in which no children have been born for twenty-something years. Theo, a history professor, gets involved with a group of dissidents, one of whom turns out to be pregnant. It's fascinating and creepy.

Valiant Bride, Ransomed Bride, Fortune's Bride, Folly's Bride, Yankee Bride/Rebel Bride, Gallant Bride, Shadow Bride, Destiny's Bride, Jubilee Bride, Mirror Bride, and Hero's Bride by Jane Peart*
I've loved the Brides of Montclair books since I was in middle school, and have read some of them many times. But I've never had the chance to read them all in order. I finally got the ones I didn't have from eBay, and I've been plowing through them ever since the last one arrived. As you can see. :P The series is a fifteen-book saga about a Virginia family and their ancestral mansion. The first book is set in Colonial times and the last one is present day (sort of). It's addictive. I'm so happy to be reading them in order, because by the middle, there are so many descendants that things get very complicated. Anyway. Love.

Books for January/2007 to date: 15

I have a life. I swear.

January Book List

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
The official end of the Traveling Pants series. I thought Girls in Pants was supposed to be the last, but Ann Brashares said at her book signing that she always intended it to be a four-book series. The four girls are separated (as usual), but this time, they realize that being separated has become the rule for them instead of the exception. They're all off at different colleges doing their own things (which include some more adult things this time). When the Pants mysteriously disappear, they all reunite to find them. It's a good and satisfying ending. Though it didn't make me cry, the way the end of Girls in Pants does every time I read it.

Savannah from Savannah and Savannah Comes Undone by Denise Hildreth
In the first of these books, writer Savannah turns down a book deal in favor of going back to her hometown of Savannah and taking a job as a human-interest journalist. She uncovers a beauty-pageant scandal, which may or may not involve her own mom, the former Miss Georgia. In the second book (which picks up immediately after the first), her mom chains herself to a monument of the Ten Commandments after the ACLU threatens to remove it. The whole town gets involved and Savannah is forced to examine who she really is and what she stands for. I liked the first book a LOT better than the second, because Savannah annoyed me through most of the second book. Overall: okay.

The Children of Men by P.D. James*
I just re-read this after seeing the movie. As well-done as the movie is, the book is so much better. I've reviewed it here before, but it's about a future society in which no children have been born for twenty-something years. Theo, a history professor, gets involved with a group of dissidents, one of whom turns out to be pregnant. It's fascinating and creepy.

Valiant Bride, Ransomed Bride, Fortune's Bride, Folly's Bride, Yankee Bride/Rebel Bride, Gallant Bride, Shadow Bride, Destiny's Bride, Jubilee Bride, Mirror Bride, and Hero's Bride by Jane Peart*
I've loved the Brides of Montclair books since I was in middle school, and have read some of them many times. But I've never had the chance to read them all in order. I finally got the ones I didn't have from eBay, and I've been plowing through them ever since the last one arrived. As you can see. :P The series is a fifteen-book saga about a Virginia family and their ancestral mansion. The first book is set in Colonial times and the last one is present day (sort of). It's addictive. I'm so happy to be reading them in order, because by the middle, there are so many descendants that things get very complicated. Anyway. Love.

Books for January/2007 to date: 15

I have a life. I swear.