books I read on vacation (the sequel)

My summer travels completed, I come bearing a list. I admit I'm a little surprised I had any time for reading at all, what with all the things I was doing and seeing and enjoying. Jam-packed was the time, one might say. But you can't separate a bookworm from her life's calling, so here's the collection. I started off with the Elements of Cadence duology by R. Ross: A River Enchanted and A Fire Endless. I've discovered I like reading a fantasy series during the summer. I need something that will suck me in and transport me to other worlds when travelling for many hours at a time and this duology did the job. I liked both books (I didn't love them) and I think I liked A River Enchanted more than A Fire Endless for plot reasons. I then read North and South by E. Gaskell for the fourth time. I do have a problem; I'll be the first to admit it. But it is oddly comforting in its investigation of complex human relationships, and I think I just needed that. Next were two rather bland romance…