Watcha readin'?

[koeeoaddi]

I’m having an unsatisfying book week.

I just finished and vaguely disliked The Sun Also Rises. I was expecting a great story like For Whom the Bell Tolls or Farewell to Arms, not a chatty but tedious 250 page bender punctuated by bullfights. I was surprised at how bored I was. I thought the Lost Generation would be loads more fun.

I’ve also been reading Sabriel by Garth Nix and really enjoying it, too. Until yesterday, when suddenly I hit my all-death-all-the-time saturation point. Now I’m not sure I can finish it.

I’m going to start The Woman in Black tonight. Maybe I should clear my head first – play a few hundred games of solitaire, maybe knit something.

[Khadaji]

@koeeoaddi

I’m having an unsatisfying book week.

I just finished and vaguely disliked The Sun Also Rises. I was expecting a great story like For Whom the Bell Tolls or Farewell to Arms, not a chatty but tedious 250 page bender punctuated by bullfights. I was surprised at how bored I was. I thought the Lost Generation would be loads more fun.

I’ve also been reading Sabriel by Garth Nix and really enjoying it, too. Until yesterday, when suddenly I hit my all-death-all-the-time saturation point. Now I’m not sure I can finish it.

I’m going to start The Woman in Black tonight. Maybe I should clear my head first – play a few hundred games of solitaire, maybe knit something.

I encourage you to keep reading Sabriel. It was worth the read.

[wonky]

@Khadaji

I encourage you to keep reading Sabriel. It was worth the read.

It definitely is, though I can understand if it gets to someone. It’s got a lot of death in it.

[wonderlust]

Just wondering, is that true of the second two books in the Abhorsen Trilogy also? I’ve read Sabriel, but was thinking of reading Lirael soon, if it wasn’t too much about death.

[susan]

Done with Strange Piece of Paradise. I figured that *The Sociopath Next Door * would be a good segue, plus both covers feature the same shade of orange, which means they’re magically related.

I just read the Abhorsen Trilogy. Death is a pretty heavy theme all the way through.

I’m reviewing what I read at shoshanapnw.livejournal.com if you’re interested. Low to no spoilers.

[koeeoaddi]

@Shoshana

I just read the Abhorsen Trilogy. Death is a pretty heavy theme all the way through.

I finished Sabriel last night. Thank you Khadaji and jsgoddess for the encouragement. It really was very good. I won’t be continuing on, though. The dead vs. the living cosmology of that world makes it a place I’m not in a hurry to get back to. Don’t know why it bothers me more than anything other doomfest. I did get all the way through The House of Sand and Fog without kicking away the stool.

Next up, finally, The Woman in Black.

[wonky]

@koeeoaddi

Next up, finally, The Woman in Black.

If you’re like me, that’ll only take a couple of hours.

Lemme see, of my big stack o’ books I mentioned above, I’m reading The Oracle Betrayed, The Ill-Made Mute, and The Mabinogion Tetralogy.

Oh, and I just finished reading through all of Laura Ingalls Wilder for the first time ever. What delightful books. If anyone has any recommendations for books that are similar, I’d be delighted.

[wonky]

@Shoshana

I’m reviewing what I read at shoshanapnw.livejournal.com if you’re interested. Low to no spoilers.

I am interested. Thanks for the link.

I do a similar thing (though shorter reviews) with Chain Reading (which is finally back up), and I review at Epinions when I feel like really exploring a review. I love reading book reviews.