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books2010-11-30 10:03 pm
sweet_sparrow) wrote in books2010-11-30 10:03 pm
What've You Been Reading?
I don't have a whole lot of time right now as it's Crunch Time with the semester's end and several nasty deadlines - for this week! - looming over me (so my apologies if replies are incredibly slow and/or just fall to the wayside altogether in advance). Please can someone have a talk with Time and have it freeze it until I get/feel caught up on stuff? *whinge*
I've managed to get a neat amount of reading done this month - about 15 books in all and a slew of short stories I haven't bothered to keep track of. The most notable reading of the month is no doubt the two thirds of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy that are out so far: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms, both of which I really enjoyed.
Disappointments of the month were Emma by Jane Austen and Sabriel by Garth Nix, neither of which I finished. I may try them again at a later date.
What about you? What's your reading month been like? What stood out in any way?
I've managed to get a neat amount of reading done this month - about 15 books in all and a slew of short stories I haven't bothered to keep track of. The most notable reading of the month is no doubt the two thirds of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy that are out so far: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms, both of which I really enjoyed.
Disappointments of the month were Emma by Jane Austen and Sabriel by Garth Nix, neither of which I finished. I may try them again at a later date.
What about you? What's your reading month been like? What stood out in any way?
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I then got hopelessly bogged down in the first 70 or so pages of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller for book group. As it was for book group, I was determined to finish it, but it was very hard at first--it felt like the book was purposefully aggressive in the beginning to put you off. It got a bit easier then, and had some passages with imagery that reminded me of surrealist paintings, which I liked, but for the most part, it just didn't do anything to me, which I found oddly disappointing--I think I was sort of hoping I'd hate it, but it didn't inspire any strong feelings in me.
Tried to find something different next, and picked up Desert of the Hearts by Jane Rule--I found it quick to read, and liked it a lot.
Then I picked up Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, a couple of years since I read The Eyre Affair, and had clearly forgotten pretty much all about it, so it took a while to get into the story, but intertextuality is always fun, IMO, so it wasn't unenjoyable even if I didn't find it that engrossing.