Right there with ya, Kathy.
Bookmarked "Portrait of Jennie"...but I like P-C's plot. I'm a total sucker for people going into paintings. There's a bit in one of The Dark is Rising books where Will goes into a photograph of an archaelogical dig to get a thing, and that may be my favorite image in a book ever.
I loved Hardy in high school. Voluntarily read all of them, except Jude. Went back to read Jude in my 20s and could not stand it.
That actually happened with me and a lot of authors...it's one of the reasons I think I became a completely different person in college.
Angela Carter wrote adult novels, a number of essays and pieces of literary criticism, and several books for children. Jeanette Winterson writes mostly novels for adults, but she also has a children's book and a new YA novel coming out later this month, about which I am tentatively excited. (Speaking of which, has anyone here read her latest novel,
Lighthousekeeping
? Is it any good? I really didn't like the one before that, but I'm tempted to give this one a try, since she used to be one of my very favorite authors.)
Gregory Maguire has the Hamlet Chronicles series for children, which I'm pretty sure started before Wicked came out.
Has E.B. White been mentioned yet? Elements of Style on the one hand, Stuart Little on the other.
Which is, pardon my editorial sneer, running the gamut of fiction.
(reads too much Language Log)
I just discovered Language Log (and bookmarked it) yesterday! Found it by following a link at Positive Anymore's blog, which I found through a Google search. Love reading people who are as language-obsessed as I am.
And who despise Dan Brown as much as I do.
Hallowed Hunt is out in paperback, yay!
Also, just finished Cryptonomicon, which I loved. Though it's making me want to go back and brush up on my WWII history, particularly the Asian theatre, which I hadn't realized had gotten so vague.
Seriously, though, fabulous book. It's amazing how well the three-plus storylines intersect, and how well drawn they all are so that with each shift between them, you fall right back into that story without losing track of the rest. There were a couple of elements that felt off to me or that I had some quibbles with, but god, what a piece of work.
The parts of my brain which have been eaten by fandom are occupied with how Rodney McKay maps to Lawrence Waterhouse, but that's a story for another day.
And I'm delighted to see that the Shaftoe family (and possibly others) feature in Stephenson's next series.
brenda, I love that book. It took me nearly three months to finish, but I had become so engrossed in it by that time that I didn't want it to end. I loved the intersecting storylines and the mathematical digressions.
Yup. I'm going to take a break before I jump into the next series, but I have a feeling I'll be revisiting this one again and again.
