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Jul. 17th, 2008 04:27 pmI'm back on a reading binge, after a long, long absence. I thought it might be cool to note down what I'm reading and what I've finished as I've done it...So here's a quick recap.
June was Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris...sort of a good mystery set in a British day school for boys. Enjoyable, easy read.
Also in June I read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova which was a quite good piece of historical fiction about Vlad the Impaler and the whole Dracula mythos...really well written. I've always had a thing for Byzantine and Ottoman history - dunno why. So if you like intelligent vampire books, as opposed to the soft core porn variety, this is for you.
Right after than I banged through a collection of Richard Matheson's short stories, including I Am Legend...haven't seen the film yet. Really really good stuff. I read the collection in a couple of hours.
I just finished Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of those books I always meant to read but never got around to. I enjoyed it, had a few laughs but mostly felt really bad for how limited women were in the late 18th, early 19th century. Reminds me of how far we've come, how far we need to go. Austen's writing and wit are really perfect. I understand why people are so obsessed.
I just started Nabokov's Lolita. I read Invitation to a Beheading last summer and...well liked it isn't the right word...found myself entranced is more appropriate. Lolita is quite different and the subject matter is sorta giving me problems, but Nabokov's writing is so beguiling you stay with it.
I'm hoping to average two books a month for a bit, though with vacation coming up I might do better. The new Artemis Fowl just hit the shelves and, god help us, Piers Anthony wrote another book in the Incarnations of Immortality series. the reviews I read were awful, but I feel compelled, having loved that series so much.
June was Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris...sort of a good mystery set in a British day school for boys. Enjoyable, easy read.
Also in June I read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova which was a quite good piece of historical fiction about Vlad the Impaler and the whole Dracula mythos...really well written. I've always had a thing for Byzantine and Ottoman history - dunno why. So if you like intelligent vampire books, as opposed to the soft core porn variety, this is for you.
Right after than I banged through a collection of Richard Matheson's short stories, including I Am Legend...haven't seen the film yet. Really really good stuff. I read the collection in a couple of hours.
I just finished Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of those books I always meant to read but never got around to. I enjoyed it, had a few laughs but mostly felt really bad for how limited women were in the late 18th, early 19th century. Reminds me of how far we've come, how far we need to go. Austen's writing and wit are really perfect. I understand why people are so obsessed.
I just started Nabokov's Lolita. I read Invitation to a Beheading last summer and...well liked it isn't the right word...found myself entranced is more appropriate. Lolita is quite different and the subject matter is sorta giving me problems, but Nabokov's writing is so beguiling you stay with it.
I'm hoping to average two books a month for a bit, though with vacation coming up I might do better. The new Artemis Fowl just hit the shelves and, god help us, Piers Anthony wrote another book in the Incarnations of Immortality series. the reviews I read were awful, but I feel compelled, having loved that series so much.
