another month falls away

I can't believe how quickly February has gone. It's nearly March already. Nearly birthday. Nearly spring. I always mourn the winter a little as it leaves us. I'm definitely a winter girl; not in the skiing/outdoorsy sense, but I enjoy the cold snap in the air, the clean feeling of the snow, the comfort in a cup of tea to warm up after a sojourn outside. I love the twilight colors in winter. Everything just feels more crisp, more clear, somehow. I feel more crisp, more clear. But it's all cyclical, and the winter will come back to me again. I just wait as patiently as I can through the long heat of summer.

Another book to report in on: 9) Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr. This is the third installment in the Wicked Lovely series, and I quite enjoyed it. The series as a whole has been good so far. The writing is good, the fey world is well constructed, and the characters are easy to empathize with. This one, as an Amazon review pointed out, was a little thin on plot and a little heavy on Aislinn's inner conflict. but I think that's necessary, as setup for later plot. Sometimes the emotional end of things needs time and space to be fleshed out; not everything has to be about the forward motion of the plot all the time. So this one's definitely a keeper for me, and I can't wait to read the remaining two books in the series.

A question for you, o readers: Should I say more about the books I read? Less? I wonder what the right balance is. Let me know if you'd like to see me approach my mini book reviews differently.

The Borders location at Park Ave. and 57th Street is closing, so the whole story is on sale. I used my lunch break to go peruse the store with a friend. An hour and forty minutes, I left there with three new books, two magazines, and a bag of peanut butter M&Ms. I practiced restraint! Of course, I'll probably go back in a day or two, since I ran out of time before I made it through all the sections I wanted to hit. It's early days yet in the closing sale, so you should all go take a gander, maybe buy a book or two. They've got an awful lot of inventory in there still.

Well. I meant to write more, but today totally got away from me. I'll try to get back here soon. Happy Thursday, everybody!