When I got home from my internship, I went to the library and basically checked out all the books Memory has read over the last year or so that sounded awesome. What can I say? The girl’s persuasive, and she’s been reading a lot of fantasy while I’ve been away, and I’ve been hungry–starved–for fantasy. [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Suite Scarlett, Maureen Johnson
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged for young people, having an actor sibling could get rather stressful, I would not enjoy to live in a hotel, Maureen Johnson, Suite Scarlett on August 30, 2010 | 29 Comments »
Their Finest Hour and a Half, Lissa Evans
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged British humor, catching up on reviews is making me feel better about myself, it would be fun to write scripts for things, Lissa Evans, Their Finest Hour and a Half, to be honest I got impatient with parts of the book that weren't Catrin and her growth as a scriptwriter, World Wars on August 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Forgive the probable idiocy and inanity of this review. I read Their Finest Hour and a Half a few weeks ago, and now it is hard for me to remember things about it. It is a funny book–I kept saying “comic book” but that’s not really want I meant–about London during the Blitz. More or [...]
It Ends with Revelations, Dodie Smith
Posted in 3 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged arty films can really be exceptionally slow and I'm afraid I have not got much patience with it, Dodie Smith, how to do cultural references without being dated, It Ends with Revelations, Ivy Compton-Burnett, oscar wilde on August 26, 2010 | 46 Comments »
Poor Dodie Smith. What a shame to have written your first book, and it’s I Capture the Castle, not far off being the best book ever, narrated by a character that is the perfect blend of innocence and charming worldly practicality. Thereafter you can write more books, but none of them will ever be as [...]
The Incident Report, Martha Baillie
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged epistolary novel, failed to get any of the opera references, happy to be back with my puppy who is even snuddlier than I remembered, I was kidding about books and I not being friends because of course we are still friends, just like... "what his left toe knew"? Really?, Martha Baillie, my problematic relationship to Time continues apace, sorry I've been so lame about posting! I have read lots of interesting books since we last spoke!, The Incident Report on August 22, 2010 | 24 Comments »
The week before I left my internship, I checked out six books from the university library, and the only two paperbacks (The Incident Report and Mothernight, of which more later) had nothing on their back covers except for quotations about time. It was like they were mocking me, like: Hey, your time in this internship [...]
Nonfiction
Posted in Picked up randomly, Unfinished, tagged A.D. Nuttall, casual dum which I confess I had forgotten about if I ever knew it, classics, Dead from the Waist Down, Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity, Juliet Gardiner, Mr. Casaubon was a most unpleasant character, Oversexed Overpaid and Over Here, The Stoic in Love, The Thirties, whenever anyone says "bitchy" about an olden days writer I immediately have to become that writer's best friend, William V. Harris, World Wars on August 16, 2010 | 43 Comments »
I have been reading a lot of nonfiction this summer. It’s been fun, but I am also a little starved for fiction, and I have a massive backlist of books to investigate when I get home. Juliet Gardiner: The Thirties and Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over Here When I read Gardiner’s Wartime, I wished it had [...]
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