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| Outlander (click here to purchase) |
DANCE: Let me explain.
A very good friend of mine gave me a calendar for Christmas, one of those tear-off calendars, A Book a Day. At the start of January, I read about Diana Gabaldon's best-selling novel Outlander. I had seen this novel many times in the bookstore, but I'd always been afraid of such a large novel! [When I was sixteen years old, I read Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire. I always considered that my first 'adult' novel as it wasn't one I found in the teen section of the bookstore. It was quite the accomplishment for me!] So when I found this book described in the calendar, I decided very sternly that I was going to read Outlander from start to finish. Ten years after I finished Interview, I have now read my first GIANT book, all 850 pages! I had always been so afraid to commit to a book of this size, so I'm proud to announce that I may have broken my very last book-boundary. There's nothing left to hold me back now!
Here's a description: "The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives." [GoodReads.com]
Currently, there are seven books in the Outlander series, but an eighth is coming out this year! View Diana's website for tour and release dates! It may be a little while until I jump into Dragonfly in Amber (Book #2), but rest assured, I WILL!!
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| Diana Gabaldon |
