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Wednesday Reading Meme
May. 28th, 2014 06:24 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Hilary McKay’s Permanent Rose, the sequel to Indigo’s Star (which is turn is the sequel to Saffy’s Angel). I’m enjoying these books more and more as they go on; it’s not so much that the books are getting better, but that they have this cumulative effect as you get to know more facets of the characters and see more of their lives.
I’m also really glad that the next book in the Casson family series is about Caddy, because she’s definitely the character with the most loose ends at this point.
What I’m Reading Now
Gail Carriger's Etiquette and Espionage, which unfortunately strikes me as somewhat mannered in the same way that I felt her Parasol Protectorate books were. The premise is really appealing - it's basically Victorian Gallagher Girls - but I feel like the prose is holding me at arms length from the characters, which isn't really my cup of tea.
I’m also still working on Will Grayson, Will Grayson. I’m glad I stuck with it because the Will Grayson that I loathed has been thoroughly pwned by life. I don’t think I was supposed to be cackling with evil emotional fulfillment as the bottom dropped out of his world, but I really was, because it was such karmic repayment of his jerktasticness.
What I Plan to Read Next
Still Rider on a White Horse. I’m going to get to it, I swear.
Also Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija’s review of it made it sound irresistibly my thing: not much plot but lots of character, “filled with the closely observed details of a world familiar to the author but alien to many readers.” I’m looking forward to it.
Hilary McKay’s Permanent Rose, the sequel to Indigo’s Star (which is turn is the sequel to Saffy’s Angel). I’m enjoying these books more and more as they go on; it’s not so much that the books are getting better, but that they have this cumulative effect as you get to know more facets of the characters and see more of their lives.
I’m also really glad that the next book in the Casson family series is about Caddy, because she’s definitely the character with the most loose ends at this point.
What I’m Reading Now
Gail Carriger's Etiquette and Espionage, which unfortunately strikes me as somewhat mannered in the same way that I felt her Parasol Protectorate books were. The premise is really appealing - it's basically Victorian Gallagher Girls - but I feel like the prose is holding me at arms length from the characters, which isn't really my cup of tea.
I’m also still working on Will Grayson, Will Grayson. I’m glad I stuck with it because the Will Grayson that I loathed has been thoroughly pwned by life. I don’t think I was supposed to be cackling with evil emotional fulfillment as the bottom dropped out of his world, but I really was, because it was such karmic repayment of his jerktasticness.
What I Plan to Read Next
Still Rider on a White Horse. I’m going to get to it, I swear.
Also Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, because
rachelmanija’s review of it made it sound irresistibly my thing: not much plot but lots of character, “filled with the closely observed details of a world familiar to the author but alien to many readers.” I’m looking forward to it.
