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osprey_archerWhat I've Just Finished Reading
Michael Ende's Momo, which I think I would have appreciated more if I had read it when I was a child. As it was, the villains fell rather flat - they're evil gray time-stealing creatures who exist for no other reason than to steal time from human beings - which drained the book of much of its forward motion for me, I think.
I also read Courtney Milan's The Countess Conspiracy, which I enjoyed, although it didn't leave as strong an impression as The Duchess War or The Heiress Effect. But it did have this one exquisite quote, which I will share with you: Victory wasn't sweet; it was devastating and incomprehensible. It reduced her to rubble when she could have withstood harsh words.
I feel like I've read something else (it's been three weeks since I posted this meme! Surely I read something else in that time?) but it's not coming to mind now, so clearly it didn't make much of an impression on me.
What I'm Reading Now
Ann Patchett's essay collection This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, which I hoped to find as compelling as Truth and Beauty, her memoir about her friendship with Lucy Greeley. (I highly recommend Truth and Beauty to everyone and should probably write a review of it someday so I can extoll its many virtues.)
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a perfectly reasonable essay collection, but so far it does not live up to Truth and Beauty, although who knows, perhaps one of the later essays in the collection will offer that shining moment of transcendence.
What I Plan to Read Next
I have the latest Newbery Medal winner, Kwame Alexander's The Crossover. If the cover is any guide, it features basketball heavily, which has rather put me off, but I really should crack it open and give it a try.
But I borrowed the first Hercule Poirot novel from Caitlin, and I ought to read it so I can return it to her when I visit next week, so I may end up reading that first.
Michael Ende's Momo, which I think I would have appreciated more if I had read it when I was a child. As it was, the villains fell rather flat - they're evil gray time-stealing creatures who exist for no other reason than to steal time from human beings - which drained the book of much of its forward motion for me, I think.
I also read Courtney Milan's The Countess Conspiracy, which I enjoyed, although it didn't leave as strong an impression as The Duchess War or The Heiress Effect. But it did have this one exquisite quote, which I will share with you: Victory wasn't sweet; it was devastating and incomprehensible. It reduced her to rubble when she could have withstood harsh words.
I feel like I've read something else (it's been three weeks since I posted this meme! Surely I read something else in that time?) but it's not coming to mind now, so clearly it didn't make much of an impression on me.
What I'm Reading Now
Ann Patchett's essay collection This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, which I hoped to find as compelling as Truth and Beauty, her memoir about her friendship with Lucy Greeley. (I highly recommend Truth and Beauty to everyone and should probably write a review of it someday so I can extoll its many virtues.)
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a perfectly reasonable essay collection, but so far it does not live up to Truth and Beauty, although who knows, perhaps one of the later essays in the collection will offer that shining moment of transcendence.
What I Plan to Read Next
I have the latest Newbery Medal winner, Kwame Alexander's The Crossover. If the cover is any guide, it features basketball heavily, which has rather put me off, but I really should crack it open and give it a try.
But I borrowed the first Hercule Poirot novel from Caitlin, and I ought to read it so I can return it to her when I visit next week, so I may end up reading that first.
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Date: 2015-04-02 03:34 am (UTC)