Wednesday Reading Meme
Jul. 16th, 2014 06:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, which I did not love as much as I hoped to. I usually love the sort of slice-of-life thing it has going - particularly if it’s slice-of-life about a way of life that is quite different from mine, which living on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland certainly is - so I’m not sure what didn’t click for me.
And...that’s it, really. I haven’t been getting much reading done; I feel that I haven’t been getting much of anything done, but I know that’s not true. I sent out a query letter yesterday, dammit! That is a thing.
What I’m Reading Now
Barbara Hambly’s Good Man Friday, which is the last of the Benjamin January series (for now; there’s another coming out later this year). I’ve really enjoyed this series, and very much recommend it if anyone is looking for a historical mystery series to try.
Also Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Peaches, which is not particularly grabbing me. It’s probably technically better written than The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which I reread a few years ago, and my goodness, it’s a bit clunky), but it lacks the same sweeping forward force of story. The three different narrators just don’t sound different enough, somehow, even though they’re all quite different people in theory.
What I Plan to Read Next
I’m not sure. I’m waiting for Lisa See’s On Gold Mountain to come in at the library, but whoever has it is taking their sweet time.
Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, which I did not love as much as I hoped to. I usually love the sort of slice-of-life thing it has going - particularly if it’s slice-of-life about a way of life that is quite different from mine, which living on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland certainly is - so I’m not sure what didn’t click for me.
And...that’s it, really. I haven’t been getting much reading done; I feel that I haven’t been getting much of anything done, but I know that’s not true. I sent out a query letter yesterday, dammit! That is a thing.
What I’m Reading Now
Barbara Hambly’s Good Man Friday, which is the last of the Benjamin January series (for now; there’s another coming out later this year). I’ve really enjoyed this series, and very much recommend it if anyone is looking for a historical mystery series to try.
Also Jodi Lynn Anderson’s Peaches, which is not particularly grabbing me. It’s probably technically better written than The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which I reread a few years ago, and my goodness, it’s a bit clunky), but it lacks the same sweeping forward force of story. The three different narrators just don’t sound different enough, somehow, even though they’re all quite different people in theory.
What I Plan to Read Next
I’m not sure. I’m waiting for Lisa See’s On Gold Mountain to come in at the library, but whoever has it is taking their sweet time.
