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Wednesday Reading Meme (38. Caramelo)
May. 14th, 2014 06:06 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Nothing really. I haven’t read very much this week. :(
What I’m Reading Now
I’m still listening to Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asakiyume, I think you might like this, particularly if you run into the audiobook: it’s this rich melange of detail, the physical details of the setting, stories about the history of Mexico and family history, and little character details that bring the people to life.
Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor, which I’m not very far in. I need to apply myself to it more assiduously.
Also Rosemary Sutcliff’s The High Deeds of Finn mac Cool, which seems to be the retelling of a loose corpus of stories all wound together in one. I sometimes wonder if this sort of thing is what would happen if someone a thousand years from now tried to bind together shreds of Sherlock, Elementary, Guy Ritchie’s films, and The Great Mouse Detective all in one story. Because it’s all the same story, right? Of course Holmes sometimes becomes a mouse and Watson sometimes becomes a woman and the setting oscillates unnervingly over centuries! From the perspective of a thousand years, one century is much like the other.
What I Plan to Read Next
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Rider on a White Horse.
Nothing really. I haven’t read very much this week. :(
What I’m Reading Now
I’m still listening to Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo.
asakiyume, I think you might like this, particularly if you run into the audiobook: it’s this rich melange of detail, the physical details of the setting, stories about the history of Mexico and family history, and little character details that bring the people to life. Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor, which I’m not very far in. I need to apply myself to it more assiduously.
Also Rosemary Sutcliff’s The High Deeds of Finn mac Cool, which seems to be the retelling of a loose corpus of stories all wound together in one. I sometimes wonder if this sort of thing is what would happen if someone a thousand years from now tried to bind together shreds of Sherlock, Elementary, Guy Ritchie’s films, and The Great Mouse Detective all in one story. Because it’s all the same story, right? Of course Holmes sometimes becomes a mouse and Watson sometimes becomes a woman and the setting oscillates unnervingly over centuries! From the perspective of a thousand years, one century is much like the other.
What I Plan to Read Next
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Rider on a White Horse.
