Strikethrough II: Son of Strikethrough

As I'm sure many of you know already, we appear to be in the middle of Round Two of the Great Livejournal Kerfuffle of 2007. This is, I must admit, getting rather wearisome. I'm not yet prepared to scamper off across the Internetz in search of a new journaling home--but I'm now to the point that I'm making placeholder accounts on some of the other LJ-clones to keep track of those of you who may be choosing to pack up and take your toys elsewhere.

I am now also annathepiper on InsaneJournal and GreatestJournal. Any of y'all over on those places, feel free to Friend me there. Anybody on the Friends list have a JournalFen account with some spare invite codes lying around? I wouldn't mind having an account there either.

In the meantime, solarbird and I will be looking at installing the LJ codebase on the Murk, since it's open source. We don't know if this will work yet; if it does, I may eventually make that my primary journal and mirror it out to the other LJ-based sites. More on this as it happens. Until then, things will be business as usual around here. Hang in there, everybody, and try not to let this sour your weekends too badly!

2007 Book Log #58: Angels Fall, by Nora Roberts

Turned out that, despite all the various Nora Roberts recommendations folks kindly gave me, the first non-J.D. Robb of hers that I read was Angels Fall, her latest paperback. Turned out to be pretty good, overall. A talented young chef, after being the only survivor of a violent crime back East, travels across the country and winds up in a small town in the mountains--where she is the only witness to a murder. Only did she really see what she thought she did? Most of the town is dubious, except for the writer who's taken a shine to her and believes she's telling the truth.

I already know Roberts' writing from the In Death series, of course, but this novel felt a bit meatier than most of those books--possibly because there was only the one book to spend on developing these characters. And I'll say this for ol' Nora: she actually surprised me for who turned out to be the murderer. I spent most of the book thinking it was somebody else entirely. Also, thumbs up for the heroine and hero being refreshingly equal in their growing attraction, and the heroine being very honest about laying down her boundaries and when she's ready to cross them, and the hero respecting that quite a bit. The sex scenes were also familiar in style from the J.D. Robbs, and I do like Nora's style--she peppers her novels with several very small sex scenes and yet manages to make the flavor of each distinctive.

Thinking about it, I can't come up with a single beef I have with this book. So sure, let's say four stars. ^_^