I feel like I have read all the books this week and finished nothing, which is totally not true. But at various points this week I was reading Howards End by E.M. Forster and The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure and The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L'Engle and yesterday Counterfeit Magic by Kelley Armstrong and also the book for this month. I like to book juggle, but that was ridiculous.
I did finish Counterfeit Magic, which is just a novella, but one about the impact of Lucas working for the Cabals on his marriage to Paige, which I really liked. I also finished The Wilder Life, which I liked a lot more than I was expecting to. Next week I want to finish Howards End, because I've subbed that in for the Hemingway that I was going to read as my classic this month.
And I'm really love The Young Unicorns, but I want to hurry up and get to A Ring of Endless Light. One thing I did notice when reading it this time is how much attention Suzy pays to Dave already, even if he's not paying any attention to her. It's sort of a nice little nod to what will happen. Although, I don't know publication dates, so maybe it was done after the fact.
Haha, yeah, my book juggling got out of control this week, too. I think I'm actively in the middle of four, plus there are three that I've put down for a while that I really would like to get back to at some point! Trying to convince myself to finish at least SOME of those before starting anything else. :D
Huh, The Young Unicorns was in 1968 and A Severed Wasp wasn't until 1982.
Hee, I finished The Young Unicorns this morning, so that's one less. Although that means that A Ring of Endless Light is going to be my bedtime book, so it doesn't actually mean one less.
INTERESTING. I'm not saying she was always planning it, but the set up is definitely there, at least from Suzy's POV.
LOL. I should probably sit down and make myself finish something, but I don't seem to like anything quite well enough to give it that kind of focus. So I guess I'll continue switching things off.
Or maybe it was even one of those where it wasn't intentional, but she went back and saw all the set up, so went in that direction?
I know why I was bouncing from book to book so hard, and it's because Howards End is sort of dense? Actually, it's not even that so much as it is Forster's writing style generally, where I'll read something and go "wait, what?" every other page. I had the same thing happen when I read A Room With a View years ago. So I keep spelling myself and getting caught up in those. Though, I did read Counterfeit Magic because it was so small and I was taking a smaller bag to work yesterday.
I did finish Counterfeit Magic, which is just a novella, but one about the impact of Lucas working for the Cabals on his marriage to Paige, which I really liked. I also finished The Wilder Life, which I liked a lot more than I was expecting to. Next week I want to finish Howards End, because I've subbed that in for the Hemingway that I was going to read as my classic this month.
And I'm really love The Young Unicorns, but I want to hurry up and get to A Ring of Endless Light. One thing I did notice when reading it this time is how much attention Suzy pays to Dave already, even if he's not paying any attention to her. It's sort of a nice little nod to what will happen. Although, I don't know publication dates, so maybe it was done after the fact.
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Huh, The Young Unicorns was in 1968 and A Severed Wasp wasn't until 1982.
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INTERESTING. I'm not saying she was always planning it, but the set up is definitely there, at least from Suzy's POV.
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Or maybe it was even one of those where it wasn't intentional, but she went back and saw all the set up, so went in that direction?
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That's definitely a plausible scenario.
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