'Get It Done'
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."
And they are great!
They get into a Star Trek Movie rhythm about four books in where they start alternating boring books (because Baum got bored with them) with great books. But stick it out to the Patchwork Girl of Oz - one of my favorites.
It was an American tradition for about 35 years that children would always get a new Oz book under the Christmas tree. (Sort of like that sweet spot where both Harry Potter and LoTR movies were coming out at Christmas.)
With The Snow Child and The Book Thief read, I was waffling between Rose Under Fire (more WWII, which I wasn't sure I was ready for) and The Goldfinch (which feels like cheating because I never read The Little Friend), and somehow managed to start The Scorpio Races instead. Has anyone else read it? It's great so far, but the pronunciation of "water horses" in Gaelic (I guess?) is driving me nuts.
Has anyone else read it? It's great so far, but the pronunciation of "water horses" in Gaelic (I guess?) is driving me nuts.
Is it selkie?
No, they're not selkies, they're capaill uisce (or something). I looked it up; apparently it's "COPple OOSHka."
Koppleooshka!
I looked it up; apparently it's "COPple OOSHka."
I am convinced that Gaelic is just an enormous prank the Celts are pulling on us.
I am convinced that Gaelic is just an enormous prank the Celts are pulling on us.
That would also explain Welsh spelling.
I read Scorpio Races and enjoyed it. Nice mix of supernatural with realistic life.
I think the Isle of Thisby is loosely modeled on the Isle of Man.
I read Scorpio Races and enjoyed it. Nice mix of supernatural with realistic life.
She does first-person really well. I don't love multiple first person narratives, but that seems to be her thing. Or had been until The Raven Boys, which I'd also like to read. I never read any of the Shiver trilogy, though, aside from skimming enough to get the multiple first person.
Not "literary" at all, but book related, I ended up with a pack of Kristan Higgins books. They are contemporary romances (but pretty fade-to-black on the sex scenes), and HOLY CRAP are they depressing. I liked the last one I read best, as it was all yearning and depression, as opposed to just depression, but somehow all of them, even though they have happy endings and everything, instead of feeling like "boy meets girl, happy happy drama resolution happy ending", it felt like "girl is horribly lonely and everyone else around her is happy and she is trying to be happy being single but all she can envision is being an old maiden aunt and a burden to her distant relatives who would not want to visit her, and...oh hey, there's a dude who there is awkwardness with, and then sex but really not going to solve the issue...wait, resolution marriage happy ending!"
...somehow all that stuck with me was the lonely depression part. Good god.