i haven't done the reading meme in two months O.O

[tsuki_no_bara]

What I just finished reading:
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, FINALLY. i figured out why i bogged down and stopped reading it last time.

Comments

[tsuki_no_bara]

did i tell you about shallow graves? her first novel. it's creepy and disturbing and even tho it's ya there's no love triangle. there isn't even a love interest. isn't it great when someone whose fic you like publishes an original novel? you can show your appreciation with money, not just comments!

i have an itch to troll rivers of teeth too. go fig. i need someone to read it along with me, so i have someone to ask "does this make sense?" and "can you make this make sense to me?" like, the author put a dam on the mississippi river, which is fine, except the lake formed from the dam should be upstream, and she has it downstream, and that's not how dams work. and if you dam the mississippi and fill the resultant lake with man-eating hippos, you're cutting off a MAJOR route to the gulf of mexico and the atlantic. and it doesn't make sense that people and businesses would let that slide for any length of time. plus the characters feel kind of like the author was ticking off a lot of diversity boxes, altho to be fair i've only met three out of five so it might not be that bad. but two of the characters have this very obvious ust - shy glances, swallowing hard, blushing, innuendo - from almost the second they meet, which is not a trope i particularly like. and i'm not even that far in! but it's a short book, so the author probably figured she needed to do everything as soon as possible. but i really like the hippos. the hippos are neat. and one of the characters, when she takes the job that i think is the main plot, says to her hippo "think of all the pastries i can buy you!" which i thought was adorable.

...clearly i have opinions. imagine what i'll have to say by the time i'm done!