Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I finished Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Pool in the Desert. The stories are a bit uneven, as stories in collections are wont to be; I thought the title story was the weakest, actually, but even then it’s still worth reading. There’s a definite theme here, about people who are trapped in an environment where they’re more emotionally or artistically sensitive than the society around them - which makes it sound unbearably up itself when I put it like that - but it’s well done and delicately explored.
I also read Ann M. Martin’s Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure! It’s an update/companion novel to the original Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books; Missy Piggle-Wiggle is Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s niece, who is looking after Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s house while Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle searches for her lost pirate husband. (Now that would be a delightful book: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s magical pirate adventures in search of her lost husband.) I suppose writing Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle herself must have seemed a bit intimidating, but all the same I’m not quite pleased that they replaced comfortably plump and middle-aged Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle with young, beautiful, unattached, having-a-nascent-romance-with-the-bookstore-owner Missy Piggle-Wiggle.
Nonetheless it’s fun, and occasionally a bit sassy - “The most wonderful thing about the town of Little Spring Valley,” it begins, “was… not even the fact that the children could play outside and run all up and down the streets willy-nilly without their parents hovering over them” - but I don’t feel any particular need to read the sequel.
What I’m Reading Now
Still working on The Black Count. I’ve been putting off all my reading challenge books till the last minute this year.
I am also bushwhacking my way to the end of The Silver Brumby. I am twenty pages from the end! I WILL FINISH IT, DAMN IT.
...except the edition I have then has a further 65-page-long short story by Elyne Mitchell. I suppose it would be cheating not to read it.
What I Plan to Read Next
Still waiting for the library to get me Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock. I’m now at the head of the holds queue, at least!
That’s the last book for the 2017 Reading Challenge. The only other book I definitely want to finish in 2017 is Lauren Wolk’s Wolf Hollow, the only 2017 Newbery Honor book I haven’t yet read. Can it measure up to The Inquisitor’s Tale??? WE SHALL SEE.
I finished Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Pool in the Desert. The stories are a bit uneven, as stories in collections are wont to be; I thought the title story was the weakest, actually, but even then it’s still worth reading. There’s a definite theme here, about people who are trapped in an environment where they’re more emotionally or artistically sensitive than the society around them - which makes it sound unbearably up itself when I put it like that - but it’s well done and delicately explored.
I also read Ann M. Martin’s Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure! It’s an update/companion novel to the original Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books; Missy Piggle-Wiggle is Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s niece, who is looking after Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s house while Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle searches for her lost pirate husband. (Now that would be a delightful book: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s magical pirate adventures in search of her lost husband.) I suppose writing Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle herself must have seemed a bit intimidating, but all the same I’m not quite pleased that they replaced comfortably plump and middle-aged Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle with young, beautiful, unattached, having-a-nascent-romance-with-the-bookstore-owner Missy Piggle-Wiggle.
Nonetheless it’s fun, and occasionally a bit sassy - “The most wonderful thing about the town of Little Spring Valley,” it begins, “was… not even the fact that the children could play outside and run all up and down the streets willy-nilly without their parents hovering over them” - but I don’t feel any particular need to read the sequel.
What I’m Reading Now
Still working on The Black Count. I’ve been putting off all my reading challenge books till the last minute this year.
I am also bushwhacking my way to the end of The Silver Brumby. I am twenty pages from the end! I WILL FINISH IT, DAMN IT.
...except the edition I have then has a further 65-page-long short story by Elyne Mitchell. I suppose it would be cheating not to read it.
What I Plan to Read Next
Still waiting for the library to get me Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock. I’m now at the head of the holds queue, at least!
That’s the last book for the 2017 Reading Challenge. The only other book I definitely want to finish in 2017 is Lauren Wolk’s Wolf Hollow, the only 2017 Newbery Honor book I haven’t yet read. Can it measure up to The Inquisitor’s Tale??? WE SHALL SEE.
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Date: 2017-11-29 11:12 pm (UTC)Oh, man. Would read.
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