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Wednesday Reading Meme
May. 21st, 2014 12:19 pmWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Barbara Hambly’s Days of the Dead. Benjamin January goes to Mexico! Now that he and Rose are totally rich, I hope and expect that there will be lots more exciting traveling. MAYBE HE WILL EVEN GO TO PARIS AGAIN. Well, maybe not Paris. BUT OTHER EXCITING PLACES.
I still am not super impressed by the mystery aspect of these books - I keep reading because I like everything else so much. I’ve been trying to think if there would be another way to organize the series, something besides mysteries, but nothing is coming to me. It would probably get dull just having January wander around New Orleans (and sundry other locations) being all “Let’s explore some more of my tragically terrible yet strangely fascinating society!”
What I’m Reading Now
The Ten Thousand Dollar Tan Line, the first of Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars novels, which pick up where the movie left off. My feeling about this book so far is “Can’t I please stay up all night reading this? Please please PLEASE, who cares that I have work at seven a.m. tomorrow!”
My superego cares, that’s who. But putting the book down was a hard-fought battle. The Veronica voice is perfect, as one would expect in a novel written by the showrunner, and I am filled with a burning desire to know the outcome of the mystery, too.
I’ve also been working my way through Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which is good but not as excellent as The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. (However, it should be noted that I am generally much fonder of novels than of short stories, which probably colors my views on this matter.)
What I Plan to Read Next
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Rider on a White Horse.
Also probably John Steinbeck's The Pearl, assuming the library has it in. Also assuming that it isn't read by the same irritating person who read Steinbeck's The Red Pony, which I probably wouldn't have liked in any case (so many dead ponies!), but the obnoxious slightly nasal voice didn't help.
Barbara Hambly’s Days of the Dead. Benjamin January goes to Mexico! Now that he and Rose are totally rich, I hope and expect that there will be lots more exciting traveling. MAYBE HE WILL EVEN GO TO PARIS AGAIN. Well, maybe not Paris. BUT OTHER EXCITING PLACES.
I still am not super impressed by the mystery aspect of these books - I keep reading because I like everything else so much. I’ve been trying to think if there would be another way to organize the series, something besides mysteries, but nothing is coming to me. It would probably get dull just having January wander around New Orleans (and sundry other locations) being all “Let’s explore some more of my tragically terrible yet strangely fascinating society!”
What I’m Reading Now
The Ten Thousand Dollar Tan Line, the first of Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars novels, which pick up where the movie left off. My feeling about this book so far is “Can’t I please stay up all night reading this? Please please PLEASE, who cares that I have work at seven a.m. tomorrow!”
My superego cares, that’s who. But putting the book down was a hard-fought battle. The Veronica voice is perfect, as one would expect in a novel written by the showrunner, and I am filled with a burning desire to know the outcome of the mystery, too.
I’ve also been working my way through Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which is good but not as excellent as The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. (However, it should be noted that I am generally much fonder of novels than of short stories, which probably colors my views on this matter.)
What I Plan to Read Next
Rosemary Sutcliff’s Rider on a White Horse.
Also probably John Steinbeck's The Pearl, assuming the library has it in. Also assuming that it isn't read by the same irritating person who read Steinbeck's The Red Pony, which I probably wouldn't have liked in any case (so many dead ponies!), but the obnoxious slightly nasal voice didn't help.
