2006: #76 – Dragonfly in Amber (Diana Gabaldon)

Dragonfly in Amber Book Cover Dragonfly in Amber
Outlander #02
Diana Gabaldon
Historical Romance
Dell Publishing Company
1993
960

For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ... and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his....

Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ... in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ... and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....

Book #76 was Dragonfly in Amber, the second book in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series.

I loved this one just as much as the first. It had me crying last night. Now, that’s not entirely unusual — after all, I cry at tv commercials. But I wasn’t just crying, I was friggin’ sobbing. Even though I knew it wasn’t that bad! No one was going to die, they’re going to see each other again — there’s more books! It probably didn’t help that I was already emotionally wrought after all the Sept 11th stuff during the halftime show of the Vikings/Redskins game. Who am I trying to kid? I would have sobbed anyway.

I’m forcing myself to read something else in between books in this series. Mostly because I don’t want to finish it too soon!

Book count: 76
Pages in book: 947
Page count: 31,964
Words in book: 338,528

Word count: 9,417,909

1,000,000 words surpassed — 2/2/06
2,000,000 words surpassed — 2/14/06
10,000 pages surpassed — 3/10/06
3,000,000 words surpassed — 3/16/06
4,000,000 words surpassed — 4/3/06
5,000,000 words surpassed — 5/30/06
50 books surpassed — 6/12/06
20,000 pages surpassed — 6/29/06
6,000,000 words surpassed — 6/29/06
7,000,000 words surpassed — 7/21/06
8,000,000 words surpassed — 8/18/06
30,000 pages surpassed — 9/3/06
9,000,000 words surpassed — 9/6/06