Read a book!
Still slowly working toward being catching up.
Here is where things start to get a bit tricky. Here's one that I read on the Kindle which isn't offered otherwise, so I have no page count. It was slight enough that I'm not counting it as a book (although there is one later which I'm counting but not enumerating). Sean Kinlin pointed me toward a book entitled The Middle Passage, and this is not that Middle Passage.
This is Julia Golding's The Middle Passage.
First line: "The most annoying person in the universe is the one who retains his appetite while his travelling companion is suffering from seasickness."
It was an amusing period piece which involved some shipboard travel, and a mystery in a tropical clime. I think it was the further adventures of a spunky young girl during historical times. In a word? Trifle. Not meant derisively, but descriptively.
Second book started & finished in 2011: Classics Mutilated Presents: Dread Island by Joe R Lansdale (78 pp).
Was it interesting? I really like Joe Lansdale's work, and in this one he manages to convincingly mash up Huck Finn, the Cthulhu Mythos, and some of the Uncle Remus-type stories (Bre'r Rabbit, and so on). I'll certainly never look at the Tar Baby the same way again.
Well-written? Written well, and from Huck Finn's perspective, too.
First paragraph:
"This here story is a good'n, and just about every word of it is true. It's tempting to just jump to the part about where we seen them horrible things, and heads was pulled off and we was in a flying machine and such. But I ain't gonna do it, cause Jim says that ain't the way to tell a proper yarn."
Would I read it again? I would. Probably will.
Keep or give away? Keep. Absotively.
Would I read a sequel/further adventures? I would! I'm also (still) waiting for that darn third Ned the Seal book to come out!
Cumulative page count? 141
Here is where things start to get a bit tricky. Here's one that I read on the Kindle which isn't offered otherwise, so I have no page count. It was slight enough that I'm not counting it as a book (although there is one later which I'm counting but not enumerating). Sean Kinlin pointed me toward a book entitled The Middle Passage, and this is not that Middle Passage.
This is Julia Golding's The Middle Passage.
First line: "The most annoying person in the universe is the one who retains his appetite while his travelling companion is suffering from seasickness."
It was an amusing period piece which involved some shipboard travel, and a mystery in a tropical clime. I think it was the further adventures of a spunky young girl during historical times. In a word? Trifle. Not meant derisively, but descriptively.
Second book started & finished in 2011: Classics Mutilated Presents: Dread Island by Joe R Lansdale (78 pp).
Was it interesting? I really like Joe Lansdale's work, and in this one he manages to convincingly mash up Huck Finn, the Cthulhu Mythos, and some of the Uncle Remus-type stories (Bre'r Rabbit, and so on). I'll certainly never look at the Tar Baby the same way again.
Well-written? Written well, and from Huck Finn's perspective, too.
First paragraph:
"This here story is a good'n, and just about every word of it is true. It's tempting to just jump to the part about where we seen them horrible things, and heads was pulled off and we was in a flying machine and such. But I ain't gonna do it, cause Jim says that ain't the way to tell a proper yarn."
Would I read it again? I would. Probably will.
Keep or give away? Keep. Absotively.
Would I read a sequel/further adventures? I would! I'm also (still) waiting for that darn third Ned the Seal book to come out!
Cumulative page count? 141