Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
John Steinbeck’s ill-named The Red Pony. I can only assume he picked that title because he realized that the more accurate The Dead Horses might put people off. Yes, multiple dead horses! First the red pony catches the strangles and chokes to death on its own mucus, and then the ranch hand bashes a mare to death in order to extract her baby by Caesarean section.
Yeah. I think that tells you everything you need to know about this book.
What I’m Reading Now
Louisa May Alcott’s Jo’s Boys. There’s a whole chapter in this book about “how to behave around an author,” presumably because Alcott had no other platform on which to castigate her over-invested fans. Jo has become a famous author, and is beset on all sides by rapacious reporters and mooncalf fans. One girl flings herself into Jo’s arms, crying, “Darling, love me!” Oh, fans. Behaving badly since 1886!
I’ve also started Garth Nix’s A Confusion of Princes, which is a little too action-adventure for my taste. There are only so many times the hero can escape assassination before it starts to get repetitive. But perhaps soon he’ll start doing something else.
I haven’t gotten much farther in The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp, because I forgot to take it along when I visited my parents over the weekend. Tara and her sister Lucy have arrived in London! Tara has been swept off on a shopping trip by a woman named Clover.
Also, I feel that this book was not very well copy-edited, because I keep stumbling over small continuity errors.
What I Plan to Read Next
Charles Finch’s The Last Enchantments.
John Steinbeck’s ill-named The Red Pony. I can only assume he picked that title because he realized that the more accurate The Dead Horses might put people off. Yes, multiple dead horses! First the red pony catches the strangles and chokes to death on its own mucus, and then the ranch hand bashes a mare to death in order to extract her baby by Caesarean section.
Yeah. I think that tells you everything you need to know about this book.
What I’m Reading Now
Louisa May Alcott’s Jo’s Boys. There’s a whole chapter in this book about “how to behave around an author,” presumably because Alcott had no other platform on which to castigate her over-invested fans. Jo has become a famous author, and is beset on all sides by rapacious reporters and mooncalf fans. One girl flings herself into Jo’s arms, crying, “Darling, love me!” Oh, fans. Behaving badly since 1886!
I’ve also started Garth Nix’s A Confusion of Princes, which is a little too action-adventure for my taste. There are only so many times the hero can escape assassination before it starts to get repetitive. But perhaps soon he’ll start doing something else.
I haven’t gotten much farther in The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp, because I forgot to take it along when I visited my parents over the weekend. Tara and her sister Lucy have arrived in London! Tara has been swept off on a shopping trip by a woman named Clover.
Also, I feel that this book was not very well copy-edited, because I keep stumbling over small continuity errors.
What I Plan to Read Next
Charles Finch’s The Last Enchantments.
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Date: 2014-02-26 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-26 01:39 pm (UTC)Because this is a terrible book for a horse-mad girl. Terrible.