literary nonsense: 1/20
Just finished reading The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd. My goal is to read 20 books by June 1. I think that may be a pretty low goal, considering how fast I read, so I may adjust that as time goes on, but I haven't read in an embarrassingly long time. My brain feels like it's getting mushy, and I want to push it into active participation with the world.
The book was fantastic...until the last ten pages. No spoilers here; it's just disappointing when you read something that very profoundly strikes a chord with something inside you in a moving way and then just completely destroys the connection in its ending. It was rushed and there was a single sentence that changed the entire book that just felt kind of stupid. I can see, in thinking over what I'd read, how the author was hinting towards this thing a lot and how he was trying to draw some comparisons and such, but it just did not resonate with me or reach me in any way. I kind of didn't understand why he'd end the book that way. In some ways, it redefines the main character, which is great, but in ten pages?? Not so great. I felt like, all of a sudden, I didn't understand the main character at all.
Anyway, next book will be Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan, which bryoneybrynn and _aurora_sky_ have been raving about. Yay gay fiction!
The book was fantastic...until the last ten pages. No spoilers here; it's just disappointing when you read something that very profoundly strikes a chord with something inside you in a moving way and then just completely destroys the connection in its ending. It was rushed and there was a single sentence that changed the entire book that just felt kind of stupid. I can see, in thinking over what I'd read, how the author was hinting towards this thing a lot and how he was trying to draw some comparisons and such, but it just did not resonate with me or reach me in any way. I kind of didn't understand why he'd end the book that way. In some ways, it redefines the main character, which is great, but in ten pages?? Not so great. I felt like, all of a sudden, I didn't understand the main character at all.
Anyway, next book will be Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan, which bryoneybrynn and _aurora_sky_ have been raving about. Yay gay fiction!