Books!

My summer reading bug has finally kicked in, just a few months late. After my last progress report on the "reading a new book a month" thing, I made up for lost time by reading THREE books in ONE month. I was so proud of my reading prowess--until the significant other pointed out, "They are children's books. And look at the size of the type." 

Yes, I read The Hunger Games trilogy. The first one was good, the second one seemed to repeat the first, and the the third one got even more violent and didn't wrap up political parts to my satisfaction. 

But at least I'm reading again. And in the spirit of summer books, I'm keeping everything non-challenging. These are the two I currently have from the library: 

Yes, that is the tenth "novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes" and yes, I have read the rest of them. 

 

This is about going to college, but it's Magic College and there's a lot more swearing and no scarves and it's set in New York, so it's nothing like Harry Potter. Nope.

Anyway, to sum up, I'm reading books. Oh my gawd!

3+2 Things: Book Report

So it's February 2--how about that goal of reading a book a month? I picked Brideshead Revisited as the first one, as I knew the Granada series from the 80s well but had never read the novel all the way through.

However, it's slow going: Because I know the plot from the TV series, I'm tempted to skip ahead, and I keep hearing Jeremy Irons in my head as I read. I'm also out of the habit of reading, I think; I tend to open my laptop instead of a book lately.

But I'm pushing through--can't get too behind on the year of book already!

The Summer Of Sci Fi

After a long spell of just re-reading what was on my shelves, I've rediscovered the library and the lure of new books. Since it's summer and I need to get my geek on somehow, most of the books have been sci-fi:

• Contact, by my imaginary better half Carl Sagan
• Dune: House Atreides, by Brian Herbert (who should be disinherited) and some other dude
• House of Suns and Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds (lots of science and lots of plot but not really the best written books in the world)
• Altered Carbon, Philip K. Morgan (Raymond Chandler with cyborgs!)

I've even sneaked in some things that aren't space opera: The Name of the Rose and Happy All The Time (Laurie Colwin, whose writing about food I prefer to her novels).

I know you'd expect someone who blogs about "literature" to read, but getting back into the habit felt worthy of a mention. ("The books I've read, let me list them.")