Wednesday Reading Meme
Sep. 9th, 2015 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I've Just Finished Reading
I finished John Marsden's Letters from the Inside, which I actually ended up quite enjoying, despite my reservations about it last week. The girls' voices ended up much better differentiated than they were at the beginning, which I think makes sense even though it also makes the beginning slow: they become more themselves as they get more comfortable writing to each other. And also the ending destroyed me (in a good way, I mean.)
I also finished Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, which I still highly recommend.
What I'm Reading Now
I'm still moseying through Oliver Sachs' Musicophilia - I started it a few months ago and set it aside, but I decided to finish it after I heard he'd died. It's interesting while I'm reading it, but it doesn't quite have the propulsive force to draw me back in when I'm not.
I'm also reading Vivian Apple at the End of the World, which is about a girl who loses her parents to a small Rapture that takes up a few hundred odd believers and sets the rest of the world in a tizzy. That's about as far as I've gotten in the book, and I'm curious to see just what the author is going to do with her world-building.
What I Plan to Read Next
DID YOU KNOW THERE'S A NEW AMERICAN GIRL OUT?????? Yes! There is! Maryellen, a fifties girl. I only found this out because someone requested the canon for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
trickortreatex, which is perhaps a sign that I should, after all, sign up for trickortreatex this year.
Eventually American Girl's going to cover every decade in the twentieth century; they've already done more than half of them. And they're probably holding off on the eighties and nineties so they can hit my generation right in the pocketbook, buying the girl from our time period for our daughters/nieces/whoever.
I finished John Marsden's Letters from the Inside, which I actually ended up quite enjoying, despite my reservations about it last week. The girls' voices ended up much better differentiated than they were at the beginning, which I think makes sense even though it also makes the beginning slow: they become more themselves as they get more comfortable writing to each other. And also the ending destroyed me (in a good way, I mean.)
I also finished Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, which I still highly recommend.
What I'm Reading Now
I'm still moseying through Oliver Sachs' Musicophilia - I started it a few months ago and set it aside, but I decided to finish it after I heard he'd died. It's interesting while I'm reading it, but it doesn't quite have the propulsive force to draw me back in when I'm not.
I'm also reading Vivian Apple at the End of the World, which is about a girl who loses her parents to a small Rapture that takes up a few hundred odd believers and sets the rest of the world in a tizzy. That's about as far as I've gotten in the book, and I'm curious to see just what the author is going to do with her world-building.
What I Plan to Read Next
DID YOU KNOW THERE'S A NEW AMERICAN GIRL OUT?????? Yes! There is! Maryellen, a fifties girl. I only found this out because someone requested the canon for
trickortreatex, which is perhaps a sign that I should, after all, sign up for trickortreatex this year.Eventually American Girl's going to cover every decade in the twentieth century; they've already done more than half of them. And they're probably holding off on the eighties and nineties so they can hit my generation right in the pocketbook, buying the girl from our time period for our daughters/nieces/whoever.
