Outlander....

So how much fun was that chat last night? It was such a great turn out, and we were all laughing and sharing all kinds of tips! Thanks friends! I really felt like we all bonded a bit last night, and will look forward to getting to know all of ya'll more! I was kind of nervous to start with, but we all got on famously.

The question came up about what is my favorite book. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon is my alltime favorite book. The whole Outlander series is just spellbinding and fascinating. If you look at her reviews, they are ALL 4.5 or 5 stars each. They are fabulous reads, and so beautifully researched.

I own the series in both hardback and paperback, and read through it twice. My mother, the woman who introduced me to the series, reads it yearly. And I think she has a cruch on the main male character Jamie, LOL!

"FROM THE PUBLISHER
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder 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 border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
After being separated by seven years of World War II, Claire and Frank Randall return to the Scottish Highlands for a second honeymoon. Left to her own devices while her husband immerses himself in historical pursuits, Claire inadvertently enters a circle of standing stones and is plunged back 200 years to a Scotland on the verge of the second Jacobite uprising. Her pluck and skill as a nurse win the Scots' grudging respect, but only marriage to a Scot will save her from the clutches of Frank's vicious forbear, Black Jack Randall. Though first novelist Gabaldon uses time travel primarily to allow a modern heroine, this is basically a richly textured historical novel with an unusual and compelling love story. The author, an assistant professor of research in environmental studies, was encouraged to publish by fellow users of CompuServe and has two more books contracted. If these fulfill the promise of the first, they should win a devoted audience. Literary Guild alternate; Doubleday Book Club main selection.-- Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass."

Towards the end of the chatsome of the girls mentioned a book club... or at the very least, reading this book together, and having a chat about it at the end of July. So what do you think? Are you game? Is a month long enough for you to read it?

Welp, my little monkey is pulling on my leg, and I should let him run outside while its not raining!