“Experience Jamie’s Side of the Story!” The cover cries and who am I to turn down the loan of any Outlander material, in particular that provided by our Fearless Leader, Mswas? In fact, once finished reading it, I sealed the book in a plastic bag, not out of an ill-advised and biology-misunderstanding need for revenge, but to make sure I didn’t accidentally get butter on it. Scoff if you will, but you would be amazed how many of my personal papers have grease marks. I […]
A self-indulgent mid-series book that is about 1000 pages too long.
I DID IT. I FINISHED THIS HULKING BEAST OF A BOOK. The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in Arizona (woot) author Diana Gabaldon’s time-traveling historical fiction saga. I have enjoyed all the books up until this one, some with reservations, but still enjoyed. They all felt like they had strong backbones, and even though they were long, most of the stuff stuffed up in there had a point. Not so with this fucker. Since the book is soooooo looooooong, I’m going to respond by […]
Claire and Jamie grow up
Voyager (1994) is Diana Gabaldon’s third book in her Outlander series with Claire and Jamie. I flew through Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber even as I realized they had some problems, but this one finally slowed me down. I started reading it back in December and skipped around to many other books while I was pushing through it. Like all of Gabaldon’s books, a lot happens in this one. For all intents and purposes, it is impossible to review Voyager without spoilers to the first […]
Jamie and Claire, now with more quite a lot more wibbely wobbly timey wimey
Hey everyone, guess who finally got caught up with this series? My epic re-read is done and I can now join the ever-increasing (I’m just taking for granted that more people will be reading the books as the TV show makes them curious and/or desperate for more Jamie and Claire) ranks of people languishing in wait for the next book. Spoilery part of the review on my blog. When it’s been a while since I’ve read one of her books, I keep forgetting how very […]