Done with the reading slump.
Read The Thin Pink Line, which I rather hated. Unlikeable heroine, unbelievable situation ... or, rather, unbelievable motive. Chunks of plotty goodness skimmed over, when it seemed important to the story and the character.
Am now halfway through The Robber Bride, and it's so very good.
I'm reading Terry Pratchett's "Jingo."
One of my favorite Discworld books
ever,
and for exactly the reasons you mention.
I've just finished Sharon Shinn's
Jenna Starborn
and found it clever and entertaining. If you don't know, it's a re-make of
Jane Eyre.
Some times I felt she tried to stick to closely to
Eyre's
plot. For example, I would have liked to have seen
more sex.
On the other hand, I did enjoy the
crazy cyborg wife
and
the parts where she was talking to a "reeder" recording device, addressing it as "dear reeder" as opposed to addressing the actual reader as Jane Eyre did.
Also the tone and mood mirrored
Eyre
quite well.
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erika, I'm very not upset. I would not have been reading it if not for you, and, as I am enjoying muchly, all is well.
Cool beans, bunky!
One of us....
Yeah, as soon as I get my NetFlix mess cleaned up (and watch Farscape so I can watch the miniseries), I'm starting season 3.
I'm only to February, but the first time they mentioned the 11-year-old girl, I thought, "Adena Watson". I can't even remember her name in the book, as I read it as "Adena Watson."
Latonya Wallace, the "Angel Of Baltimore".
(I just happened to start rereading last week. But I put it aside in favor of other books I've not read.)
Maybe I'll teach Journalism 504, "Reporting on Blood and Guts" one day.
I probably wouldn't have the pre-reqs to take the class, but I'd audit it!
I just FINALLY put Homicide on hold at the library. My only defense is that I don't usually read non-fiction.
I'm such a moron...I'm happy like I wrote the damn thing. B. org just brings out the Leni Riefenstahl in me.
But not in a creepy, fascistic way.