bookwormreviews.org » Outlander Series http://bookwormreviews.org Ramblings of an avid bookworm and TV addict Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:03:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wish List http://bookwormreviews.org/2009/06/wish-list/ http://bookwormreviews.org/2009/06/wish-list/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:08:40 +0000 Bdubs http://liloregonbug.com/?p=960 I was bored at work today, and I decided to work on my birthday/Christmas/just because wish list. Here’s the list, in case anyone wants to buy me anything on it, you know, feel free! ;-)

  • Wii and Wii accessories. When the weather starts cooling down again, it’d be great to have the Wii Fit to keep in shape and have fun. I like video games where you don’t have to sit still.
  • 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, and Scrubs on DVD
  • The Outlander Series in hardback (awesome books, can’t put them down)
  • All of the Harry Potter DVDS (maybe I should wait till the last two movies are out and get a boxed set)
  • New Mattress and bedframe (might be getting this soon)
  • Chaco sneakers and sandals. They are the only shoes that I can walk in, because the have arch support. Shoemakers should be required to make all shoes this way.
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Centered around an English war nurse named Claire, a woman from 1945, who accidentally travels back in time in Scotland, to the year 1743. She should have bought some travel health insurance because she’s set back in archaic times, where whiskey is medicinal, and doctors can be mistaken for witches.

It seems far fetched, maybe hokey, but the way it is written is dead serious. She leaves behind her husband, Frank Randall, whose ancestor, Captain Randall, is one of the most evil and twisted English soldiers who ever lived.
In the mist of getting kidnapped, almost rapped, and nearly burned at the stake for being a “witch” she falls into an all consuming love with Jamie Fraser, a Scottish Warrior.

I won’t say more, other than this book is incredible. It’s got enough romantic to please the women, but enough blood, guts and action to entice most men as well. The best part about this book is Claire’s story doesn’t end with Outlander. There are five books in the series, and I can’t wait to start reading the second, Dragonfly in Amber. I highly recommend these books, you will not be disappointed.

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