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Wednesday Readng Meme
Oct. 16th, 2013 12:09 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Gennifer Choldenko’s Al Capone Does My Shirts, because I needed something light after Rose Under Fire. And it is indeed light: I don’t have anything much to say about it.
What I’m Reading Now
Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist. It was going to be Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, but...someone had checked it out! Most vexing. Though I suppose I should be pleased by this evidence of Bronte love.
Anyway, I’ve only gotten to chapter 3 of Oliver Twist, and I’m already pretty sure that nothing good is going to happen in this book ever until maybe the very end. The governors of the workhouse already hate Oliver so much that they tried to pay a chimney sweep to take him off their hands. I may need another light book to recover.
I’ve also been reading Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter a chapter at a time at bedtime. It’s a very restful book.
What I Plan to Read Next
I have the audiobook of Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child on hold at the library, because 1) the author’s name is Eowyn, how could that go wrong?, 2) the cover suggests that the Snow Child might secretly be a fox, which I’m 99% certain is not how the book will pan out, but you never know, and 3) there are people requesting it for Yuletide, which surely means it must have something going for it.
Reason 3 has me thinking of reading The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, too. It's set in Florida, a state almost as interesting as Alaska - The Snow Child is set in Alaska - and! it has horses.
Also I’ve been thinking I should dip my toe - perhaps even my whole foot! - into the waters of adult fiction.
Gennifer Choldenko’s Al Capone Does My Shirts, because I needed something light after Rose Under Fire. And it is indeed light: I don’t have anything much to say about it.
What I’m Reading Now
Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist. It was going to be Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, but...someone had checked it out! Most vexing. Though I suppose I should be pleased by this evidence of Bronte love.
Anyway, I’ve only gotten to chapter 3 of Oliver Twist, and I’m already pretty sure that nothing good is going to happen in this book ever until maybe the very end. The governors of the workhouse already hate Oliver so much that they tried to pay a chimney sweep to take him off their hands. I may need another light book to recover.
I’ve also been reading Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter a chapter at a time at bedtime. It’s a very restful book.
What I Plan to Read Next
I have the audiobook of Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child on hold at the library, because 1) the author’s name is Eowyn, how could that go wrong?, 2) the cover suggests that the Snow Child might secretly be a fox, which I’m 99% certain is not how the book will pan out, but you never know, and 3) there are people requesting it for Yuletide, which surely means it must have something going for it.
Reason 3 has me thinking of reading The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, too. It's set in Florida, a state almost as interesting as Alaska - The Snow Child is set in Alaska - and! it has horses.
Also I’ve been thinking I should dip my toe - perhaps even my whole foot! - into the waters of adult fiction.
