Book meme: Day 28!
You know what I forgot yesterday? ASSASSINS. If an assassin is the protagonist of the novel, I will read it. Bonus points if:
1. The assassin is a woman.
2. The assassin is a lesbian.
3. The assassin has an affair with a secret agent.
4. The assassin gets a happy ending.
A million bonus points if all four of those things happen.
I have to be honest, though -- my favorite books about an assassin are still C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp's book Hunter's Moon
and its sequel Moon's Web
, about the Mafia hit man who gets turned into a werewolf. Both are romance novels, and both are told from the first person point of view of Tony, who is the hero. Full disclosure: I acquired and edited both books for the Tor Romance imprint back in 2003/2004. In fact, Hunter's Moon was one of the first books I acquired for the imprint, right at the beginning when we were first going forward.
(One of the other first books acquired? The Challenge by Susan Kearney
, which has also stood the test of time -- I'm actually rereading it right now and remembering again just how much I love it. What's it about? Why, it's a romance novel about a female Secret Service agent who gets shot protecting the president -- and pulled forward in time to compete in an intergalactic challenge. Yes, it's awesome.)
Day 28 - First favorite book or series obsession
For once, my answer is not the Anne books -- the first series I can remember being really taken with was actually Nancy Drew. When I was five years old, my kindergarten class went on a "field trip" to the school library, and I pulled a Nancy Drew book off the shelf. I think at that point I wasn't reading books with quite that much text per page at home (although I'd already started series like the Bobbsey Twins and the Boxcar Children), so Nancy Drew was new to me. I don't know why my teacher let me take that book out of the library -- maybe she thought it was funny? Maybe she thought she was just indulging me? But I read the whole thing. The mystery, I remember, was sort of boring -- but it kicked off a long obsession with Turkey. For many years, I told people that I was going to move to Constantinople when I grew up. When I learned that Constantinople was now called Instanbul, I immediately lost interest. Hah!
That was The Mysterious Mannequin
-- with the "Oriental" (cringe) rug with the messages for Nancy's father woven into it in code. I thought that was the most amazing thing ever when I was five -- and, honestly, it's still really cool.
( Other days of the book meme )
1. The assassin is a woman.
2. The assassin is a lesbian.
3. The assassin has an affair with a secret agent.
4. The assassin gets a happy ending.
A million bonus points if all four of those things happen.
I have to be honest, though -- my favorite books about an assassin are still C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp's book Hunter's Moon
and its sequel Moon's Web, about the Mafia hit man who gets turned into a werewolf. Both are romance novels, and both are told from the first person point of view of Tony, who is the hero. Full disclosure: I acquired and edited both books for the Tor Romance imprint back in 2003/2004. In fact, Hunter's Moon was one of the first books I acquired for the imprint, right at the beginning when we were first going forward. (One of the other first books acquired? The Challenge by Susan Kearney
, which has also stood the test of time -- I'm actually rereading it right now and remembering again just how much I love it. What's it about? Why, it's a romance novel about a female Secret Service agent who gets shot protecting the president -- and pulled forward in time to compete in an intergalactic challenge. Yes, it's awesome.)Day 28 - First favorite book or series obsession
For once, my answer is not the Anne books -- the first series I can remember being really taken with was actually Nancy Drew. When I was five years old, my kindergarten class went on a "field trip" to the school library, and I pulled a Nancy Drew book off the shelf. I think at that point I wasn't reading books with quite that much text per page at home (although I'd already started series like the Bobbsey Twins and the Boxcar Children), so Nancy Drew was new to me. I don't know why my teacher let me take that book out of the library -- maybe she thought it was funny? Maybe she thought she was just indulging me? But I read the whole thing. The mystery, I remember, was sort of boring -- but it kicked off a long obsession with Turkey. For many years, I told people that I was going to move to Constantinople when I grew up. When I learned that Constantinople was now called Instanbul, I immediately lost interest. Hah!
That was The Mysterious Mannequin
-- with the "Oriental" (cringe) rug with the messages for Nancy's father woven into it in code. I thought that was the most amazing thing ever when I was five -- and, honestly, it's still really cool.( Other days of the book meme )