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.
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Amy - Jan 12, 2014 6:50:16 am PST #21857 of 28367
Because books.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2014 7:02:46 am PST #21858 of 28367
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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?
Amy - Jan 12, 2014 7:04:53 am PST #21859 of 28367
Because books.
No, they're not selkies, they're capaill uisce (or something). I looked it up; apparently it's "COPple OOSHka."
DavidS - Jan 12, 2014 7:05:30 am PST #21860 of 28367
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Koppleooshka!
Sue - Jan 12, 2014 7:17:21 am PST #21861 of 28367
hip deep in pie
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.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2014 7:59:27 am PST #21862 of 28367
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I am convinced that Gaelic is just an enormous prank the Celts are pulling on us.
That would also explain Welsh spelling.
Kat - Jan 12, 2014 9:04:13 am PST #21863 of 28367
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I read Scorpio Races and enjoyed it. Nice mix of supernatural with realistic life.
Amy - Jan 12, 2014 10:31:35 am PST #21864 of 28367
Because books.
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.
meara - Jan 12, 2014 10:55:55 am PST #21865 of 28367
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.
hippocampus - Jan 12, 2014 11:32:12 am PST #21866 of 28367
not your mom's socks.
Amy, I'm reading Raven Boys. Enjoying it... er, intermittently.