After I finished up doing some revisions to my newest YA manuscript and sent it off to Mary to read, the rest of my days at the beach last week allowed for lots of relaxing reading time. For some reason, I don’t read that quickly, but I still was able to read two books and part of another. It was fun to kick back and not have a million tasks waiting just in the next room.
First up was the second in Meg Cabot’s young adult Mediator series, Ninth Key. The Mediator series is about a teenage girl who can see and talk to ghosts. Being a mediator means that she helps these ghosts who haven’t moved on to wherever they’re supposed to go. She helps them with unfinished business, often a message for someone they left behind. Only when the mission is complete can the ghost move on. Mix this ability in with the teenage drama of having your mom remarry and move you across country, having three new stepbrothers in your life, trying to date and make friends, and finding out that your principal, a priest at the mission school you attend, is also a mediator, and a good-looking ghost living in your bedroom and you have a fun mix.
Next up was Heat Stroke, the second in Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden paranormal series. The main character, Joanna Baldwin, is a Weather Warden, one who can control, well, the weather. In the world Caine creates, there are three kinds of wardens helping to keep the planet from destroying mankind — weather, fire and earth. It’s a great mythology, and I think Joanne is a likeable character. She’s powerful, loves to drive fast cars (her current one is a Viper), and has a hot love interest in her traveling companion, David, a Djinn (think a really powerful genie).
The book I’m currently reading, which I started while still at the beach, is fellow Noodler Terry McLaughlin’s Learning Curve. Mix one good-looking, liberal, formerly idealistic teacher with one beautiful, not so liberal, still idealistic student teacher, and you’ve got the makings of an interesting dance toward a happily-ever-after.
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Whedonverse Quote of the Day:
Kaylee: “These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I — how ’bout that!”
Mal: “Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you’re supposed to make me look respectable.”
Kaylee: “Yessir, Captain Tight Pants.”
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