Oz ,'Beneath You'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Yohnalossee Riding School for Girls
I haven't read the book, but I know exactly where Yonahlassee is. We used to drive past it all the time on our backcountry trips. Their horses are very friendly. They will nibble on your car.
um, sorry, not book-related. Nothing to see here, move along.
But very cool. I have the book and I started it - but then I got distracted . . .possibly because I have the book in book form rather than on my kindle.
Wolf Hall!!!
I am reading Infinite Jest. 4% in (which is a good solid novella worth of words) I feel like I am reading something written by somebody with much more literary intelligence than me, but not in the smug and infuriating way that made me stop reading at least one Zadie Smith and one Jonathan Franzen book. I feel like I will (slowly) finish this one. Score one for modern literature!
It is very confusing in some ways, and jumps around in space and time a good bit, but with just enough hints that I don't feel exactly lost. There are a lot of descriptions of drugs. And the words are just very pretty.
I am reading Indexing still and while I like it, i am not sure what to think of Amazon's serial format. This is the 2nd book I have read this way and I am "eh" on it as structure.
The stories are pretty interesting to me though. I am in Episode 4.
I've been enjoying the episodes of Indexing, too. I definitely want the rest of the story. I do wonder ell the authors get paid like this in comparison to more usual ways of publishing. And I sort of like the connection to serialized stories from early last century.
Indexing is great. It does get more serialized later and shit is currently quite real.
The thing I don't like is the beginning of each episode is repetitious. Character details that have been thoroughly explained in previous episodes. In a novel they would be stripped out altogether. I guess if this were tv though, this would be necessary.
Wolf Hall, The Light Between Oceans, The Forgotten Garden, The Little Friend, Dark Places, A Discovery of Witches,
Amy, I am with lisah on Wolf Hall. DAMN that book is amazing. Even when you know exactly, historically, how everything turns out, it's page turning. Hilary Mantel kicks ass.
I did not like The Light Between Oceans. Read half and then abandoned.
I totally enjoyed Discovery of Witches. It's pretty fluffy and easy to get through. nothing deep.
Actually, The Little Friend sort of hooked me last night. I also reread the first few pages of The Book Thief, so I need to decide.
The Light Between Oceans does seem sort of slow-going. Which was the problem I had with The Snow Child (still unfinished) -- it was simply taking forever to get anywhere.