Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archer What I’ve Just Finished Reading
Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, but I have a post in the works about that so I shall not detain you here.
Also Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife, because Emma recommended it to me. It’s a recently published adult book, which puts it rather out of the way of the things I normally read. I quite enjoyed it - I mean, in the way that you enjoy a book that’s really pretty depressing - and that set me to thinking why I don’t read recently published adult fiction more often.
Ultimately I think it’s just that there isn’t time to read everything, because there are so many books in the world. You have to pick and choose which genres you’re going to focus on.
Also, I seem to have a talent for striking on recently published adult novels that are lovely but very sad. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is also beautifully written, but still a total downer. A life without the ability to enjoy food! So sad!
What I’m Reading Now
Elizabeth Wein’s Rose Under Fire. Holy moly, you guys, this book starts less than a year after Code Name Verity went down, and Maddie Brodatt and Jamie Beaufort-Stuart just got married! I remember discussing this post-CNV possibility with others, and we all thought it might happen - years in the future, after the war, once they’ve had ages upon ages to recover.
Clearly that was a bit of an overestimation.
I had not realized quite how invested I was in Maddie and Julie’s ~epic love~ until this happened and I was like “WHAT, but Julie is barely even COLD IN THE GROUND, how can Maddie even be dating yet???” But I’ll get used to it eventually, I suppose.
I did legit start weeping when Maddie thought she’d lost Rose, as well. It’s like the universe is plotting to kill all her friends.
What I Plan to Read Next
J. K. Rowling’s new mystery novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. I didn’t really like the later Harry Potter books, but I loved the first few and I’m awfully fond of mysteries, so I’m hoping I’ll love this too.
SPEAKING OF MYSTERIES. Did you know that Jane Langton - who wrote The Diamond in the Window and, my most favorite, The Fledgling - wrote mystery novels about the Transcendentalists? I DIDN’T. So excited about this!
Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, but I have a post in the works about that so I shall not detain you here.
Also Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife, because Emma recommended it to me. It’s a recently published adult book, which puts it rather out of the way of the things I normally read. I quite enjoyed it - I mean, in the way that you enjoy a book that’s really pretty depressing - and that set me to thinking why I don’t read recently published adult fiction more often.
Ultimately I think it’s just that there isn’t time to read everything, because there are so many books in the world. You have to pick and choose which genres you’re going to focus on.
Also, I seem to have a talent for striking on recently published adult novels that are lovely but very sad. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is also beautifully written, but still a total downer. A life without the ability to enjoy food! So sad!
What I’m Reading Now
Elizabeth Wein’s Rose Under Fire. Holy moly, you guys, this book starts less than a year after Code Name Verity went down, and Maddie Brodatt and Jamie Beaufort-Stuart just got married! I remember discussing this post-CNV possibility with others, and we all thought it might happen - years in the future, after the war, once they’ve had ages upon ages to recover.
Clearly that was a bit of an overestimation.
I had not realized quite how invested I was in Maddie and Julie’s ~epic love~ until this happened and I was like “WHAT, but Julie is barely even COLD IN THE GROUND, how can Maddie even be dating yet???” But I’ll get used to it eventually, I suppose.
I did legit start weeping when Maddie thought she’d lost Rose, as well. It’s like the universe is plotting to kill all her friends.
What I Plan to Read Next
J. K. Rowling’s new mystery novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. I didn’t really like the later Harry Potter books, but I loved the first few and I’m awfully fond of mysteries, so I’m hoping I’ll love this too.
SPEAKING OF MYSTERIES. Did you know that Jane Langton - who wrote The Diamond in the Window and, my most favorite, The Fledgling - wrote mystery novels about the Transcendentalists? I DIDN’T. So excited about this!
