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y want laura to succeed in her mission and have a good ending being a pink carnation book you do have some idea of how the book will end right from the beginning but you still want it to happen and would be disappointed if laura didn t get her man jaouen is a great addition to lauren s heroes a father serious educated haunted and he has his own secrets while some of the earlier pink books felt more like regency romps there is more urgency to the plotline of the orchid affair and augustus whittlesby and his terrible overblown poetry aside it is a darker book lauren doesn t skimp on the realities of torture in post revolutionary france and while dead bodies have shown up in previous books the violence is more nuanced and necessary to the action of the book there is more at stake in the denouement than just information state secrets and international espionage with masks and flowers i find myself far more interested in the regency spy plots than in the framing story of modern day phd candidate eloise although it is through eloise that we access the regency plots i think this is because we only see bits and pieces of the eloise and colin have a relationship development even thought the framing story usually ties in thematically with part of the book in book 3 the deception of the emerald ring geoff and letty wind up married as part of a mistaken identity botched elopement and have to learn to overcome one anothers prejudices and assumptions while eloise has to overcome some of her assumptions about colin in order for their relationship to move forward in the the orchid affair eloise gets to spend a little more time with colin s air head mother and decidedly sleazy step father cousin i actually got to like colin a little more in this book probably because of his rotten family family is a large part of the regency plot the orchid affair was as expected as very fun book to read coming off a very hectic and disorganized three weeks of moving not being able to find things writing very large checks and heaps of stress it was nice to curl up with a spandy new book a pot of tea and the cats to read the evening and night away with characters old and new flowery spies and dastardly villains i can t wait until next january for a new installment pink carnation heroine standings laura and letty are having a face off over who is the best pink heroine laura is pretty clever but letty is really stubborn and can create excellent distractions arabella is looking on to see if she can capitalize on the disagreement if pen doesn t beat her to the punchline mary thinks she is better than all this charlotte is reading a book hen is practicing her scales and making sure miles doesn t eat all the ginger biscuits and amy is far too busy training new spies to notice the pink carnation is of course observing the whole thing silently taking notes posted by melissa ward at 4 08 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels happy dance new books yay stuff i read 24 january 2011 when i have to huh as a bookseller there are days when the impulse to laugh has to be squelched mercilessly bad for business evidence the first a customer on the telephone wants a copy of the autobiography of mark twain which we as well as most of the bookstores online sources etc in this country are completely sold out of due to small print runs vs high demand you can get it electronically like i did if you want to read it and want to either a save money or b save time or both i explain this to the customer who needs this for a christmas present today it s january so someone s advance planning has failed i apologise offer to hold the audiobook we have on hand only to be ordered to call the other bookstores in the area so in the interests of good customer service i put the customer on hold checked the online inventory found that the closest on hand copy is several states away called the local indie bookstore and they didn t have any either i believe their bookseller actually snorted when i asked if they had any copies of the twain so i got my customer back on the line informed him of this and once again offered to hold the audiobook because no one has any hardcovers on hand and we re all waiting for the same print run for a re stock the customer explodes that s communist and proceeds to tell me all about how it s soooo like the communists that the publisher didn t print enough copies of the biography of the most famous author in america because everyone should have a copy and he wants to buy one yadda yadda yadda um communist does someone needs a lesson in basic political and economic ideology it s capitalist to cause demand to go up by not printing enough copies because communist is where you share everything i e there s one for everybody i told him that i m sure the university of california press would love to hear his opinion but i didn t think it would make the printing presses run any faster and would he like me to hold the audiobook hint hint he took the hint and the audiobook oy vey evidence the second three teenage girls are wandering around the store talking loudly about books that they are looking for including the scarlet letter and it has to be on the bestsellers somewhere they ve walked past me and another bookseller at this point and we both looked at each other and gave the wtf look i would normally just offer to help but there s some people who just have to learn to give up and ask on their own these three are those people plus i wanted to hear more of the conversation i should have offered to help because the conversation started to depress me this trio of well fed obviously well cared for girls are wandering around talking about how they don t read and don t go to bookstores and are being forced to read huckleberry finn and it s like omigod sooo hard these girls are old enough to drive themselves to the mall just fyi they are actually proud of the fact that they don t read so they finally come find me arranging the new bestsellers none of which are the scarlet letter and ask for the nicholas sparks books and i show them to the section about 8 feet behind them alphabetical by author s last name then one of the girls does ask for the scarlet letter so i ask my favorite question ever do you need a particular edition which completely confuses the poor girl and her face literally goes blank so we go to hawthorne and i pull the cheapest edition off the shelf she still looks confused so i take a little pity on her and ask if she knows anything about the book nope she doesn t know anything about it but she s supposed to read it nope she has no idea that it s over 150 years old or about puritans and she has trouble reading huck finn and i m thinking oh crap so i ask her as gently as i can if she would like me to recommend something else for her to read i m assuming it s for school but i could be wrong no no this is fine so the trio wanders back off to nicholas sparks pretty soon they come find me again do i have any cliffs notes for nicholas sparks s the rescue i actually felt my teeth click together so my mouth wouldn t fall open er no we don t have any sparknotes for nicholas sparks books but yes we do have sparknotes for huck finn i take two of the three over to the study aids section surprisingly the girl with the scarlet letter is not interested in a sparknotes for her book she s determined to read it i could have hugged her for saying that so she hung around the teen new releases to find huck finn and the whole way there the one girl keeps going on and on loudly about how long the book is and how hard it is to read and how it has like 500 pages and that s soooo unfair and she s not going to read it if she doesn t have to i wanted to slap her so i pulled the sparknotes for huck finn off the rack handed it to her and said just so you know all the teachers have read all the study aids and cheat sheets for the books you read in class so you ll still need to read the book huck finn is still relevant because huck has to re think his attitudes about slavery and people of color as he and jim become friends and by the way huck finn is often marketed as a children s book it s only about 200 to 250 pages depending on the edition war and peace has 1000 pages that s a long book that shut her up why are people so proud of being ignorant and stupid it s like a badge of honor trumpeting their stupidity look at that waste case snooki in the case of the three girls because i have no idea what my phone customer looks like it s obvious that they have money that their parents spare no expense for them so why parade around like some uneducated hick why not take pride in the advantages of an education i ve read susan jacoby s the age of american unreason so i understand that the divide between the intelligence haves and have nots has always existed but it always makes me go huh i try to be helpful and optimistic but the really dogged way that some people just cling to their ignorance makes me want to crawl back in my hidey hole or point and laugh depending on situation posted by melissa ward at 12 40 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels customers omg and wtf rant reasons i am smarter than most of humanity 21 january 2011 it s bloggiesta weekend a tiny tiny goal for me natasha is hosting bloggiesta again this year happy 4th bloggiesta if you re wondering it s like a working weekend where bloggers do housekeeping on their sites a little pruing maybe a few mini challenges and help each other out i did some bloggiesta ing last year added my header picture and changed up the template to something a little more custom designed but i won t be really joining in since i m still unpacking boxes although i could work on the reading chemistry blog hmmmm maybe but anywhoo the reason for this post has to do with programming i really don t understand how blog templates set out widgets colors columns etc and i have no idea how to read the code i know a little bit about html but this seems to be css so this is my tiny tiny bloggiesta goal ready bloggiesta 2011 goal find a book good reference so i can start to understand how blog templates websites are put together so that next time we bloggiesta i will be able to do some more customization cleanup so this is where everyone else comes in do you have good reference material that you use when you do tweaks and updates books or websites are fine so tell me your faves posted by melissa ward at 1 35 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bloggiesta random 20 january 2011 who needs love so every year at the store we go from christmas signage to valentine s day signage with a brief stop over for new year s resolution type books in a blink so for six weeks we get to live with the valentine s day table brimming with relationship sex and dating books in varying shades of pink pink er pink and red for someone who is always acutely aware that valentine s day is sad s ingles a wareness d ay it can get old fast so i got to thinking why not an anti valentine s day type of display not neccessarily against valentine s day per se but one where the love stories don t end happily or not as the reader would wish also known as no heas happily ever afters just for a little balance and would be full of good books to read why not indeed so i made one with input from a few other booksellers the display is buried in the fiction section but i plan on catching unsuspecting book browsers with the sign who needs love the time traveler s wife by audrey niffenegger the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro atonement by ian mcewan love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez the reader by bernhard schlink the english patient by michael ondaatje the thorn birds by colleen mccullough oscar and lucinda by peter carey cold mountain by charles frazier his dark materials trilogy by phillip pullman brick lane by monica ali the sorrows of young werther by johann wolfgang von goethe on love by alain de botton i deliberately went with more recent novels than classics because if i did classics anna karenina would be front and center followed by jude the obscure and wuthering heights as well as very obvious plays from shakespeare do you think i m missing anything essential looking at this list again i must have had booker awards on the brain eta one or two things on the display that slipped my mind writing this post posted by melissa ward at 12 43 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels tis the season happy dance random 19 january 2011 the complete booker challenge 2011 sweet try ing again for the booker challenge and add to my booker project i plan to start with the pix a mix of six level the sea the sea by iris murdoch the sea by john banville which i think is coming out as a movie this year so i should read it midnight s children by salman rushdie the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro life of pi by yann martel the bone people by keri hulme the new penguin ink cover is awesome if i finish those i ll bump up the goal to the booker s dozen pefect opportunity to read possession again posted by melissa ward at 4 45 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels booker project complete booker challenge 11 january 2011 2011 to set or not to set reading goals in thinking about reading and blogging for 2011 i wasn t sure i wanted to do any challenges this year i ve come to realize they distract me i think and worry and fret far more about what i need to read for a challenge than what i actually read this gets worse when i have greater than one challenge going on at the same time i finished one challenge women unbound but had trouble finishing the other the complete booker and i only made minimal progress on my projects so i think i ll just do one challenge kind of one and a half i d like to work on the complete booker challenge 2011 it would help make a decent amount of headway on my booker project i ll probably start with the pix a mix of six read six booker winners and it might upgrade to the a booker s dozen read twelve winners or nominees from the short or long lists i ll need to get a challenge post up for that one i ve also signed up for the goodreads challenge which is simply a goal to read a certain number of books goodreads makes it really easy to track that with the stats page so i signed up with the goal of reading 100 books this year i ve not made a great start what with the mess of moving and all one hundred books in a year is like my personal glass ceiling somehow i slowly started accepting review copies from publishers this last year well just harperperennial harper paperbacks really i didn t go overboard thank goodness but i haven t been very good at getting things read when i need to for publication dates so i 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