February Reads

[sweet_sparrow]

Posting a day early since I doubt I'll be getting anything fnished before the end of today. I'm feeling a little hyper at the moment, so hopefully I'll be able to sleep properly. February has been a bit of a blur and I started out this post convinced that I hadn't posted about January at all! (Turns out that I did.)

Real-life-wise, things should hopefully start to resume some form of calm and normalcy in March. At least for a while.

I kept my February's reading light for the most part and failed utterly in getting ahead with my course book reading. (I finished Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, though! I am still ahead of my classes! If only barely...)

My memory for which books I read when is just as abysmal as last month. It may even be worse. Have what I recall!

A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Merlin’s Harp by Anne Eliot Crompton
Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles: Or The Book of Galehaut Retold by Patricia Terry & Samuel Rosenberg
The Last Unicorn (Graphic Novel adaptation) by Peter S. Beagle & Peter B. Gillis
Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

How about you? What's your reading been like the past month? Read anything you'd love to recommend to all and sundry? Something you'd warn against? Happy reading in March!

Comments

[hyperbole]

I feel you on the craziness of February!

In terms of "my own" reading, this month I've started and finished Sylvia Plath's The bell Jar, which was better than I remembered it but a bit too graphic in parts. I have also been reading Wuthering Heights although I a) don't remember when I started, and b) am only halfway.

In terms of my course readings: Penguin's collection of Borges stories called "Fictions" (a nice range of short stories, from utterly confusing and pointless ones to very interesting/cute/thought-provoking/otherwise good ones), Karel Capek's "R. U. R." (a play about robots, utopia vs. dystopia, technology vs. humanity, etc. from the early 1920s - I liked it!), Vaclav Havel's "The Garden Party" (um...no sense to me it made), a short German play (which also very little sense to me made, haha), and about half of Madame Bovary (in French; long-winded but not bad!) and two thirds of The Trial (in German; a lot better than I was expecting!). I'm pretty far behind on where I should be with reading right now, but February was one crazy month, what with essay writing and emotional issues. Only a month left of the semester/academic year...!

[sweet_sparrow]

If you've been reading it in February it counts! How are you finding the book? It's been ages since I read it myself.

I hope that March will be better for you in terms of emotional issues and stress! And that you'll catch up on your reading! I'm glad your course books seem to be mostly on the enjoyable side of things! ^-^

[hyperbole]

The Heights? I actually don't know. I read it before I go to sleep so much of it is veiled in a sleepy haze, but I think it's less good than I was hoping/expecting. I kind of like the recent film a lot, and the book so far seems to just be a drier and more long-winded and less pretty rendition of the story (which...is far too complex as far as I'm concerned, haha). But it's interesting and I do love me some classics, if only for the quirky language and people's "you're reading WHAT for leisure?? you do know that English is not your native language, right?" reactions.

But yeah, March has far greater potential! The weather just turned so now sitting outside reading is actually *enjoyable* and not just something I do because I should. And the last few books of the year (four and two halves out of 37) seem pretty interesting. (I'm especially excited about The Unbearable Lightness of Being!)

[sweet_sparrow]

We discussed it in class. I don't think it was what anyone in it was expecting. ^-^

Oooh, that reaction got me into so much trouble once... Now I just use it to scare my younger cousins who aren't readers. ^-~

Mmm, I envy you your weather and hope it'll be similar here soon! And I'm glad that your books are sounding more interesting!