Be Careful What You Wish For Wednesday

[evelyn_b]

As usual these days, crossposted to Dreamwidth.

What I've Finished Reading

The Maias isn't shy about being a story made of words, or a satire of Lisbon literary layabouts. The characters - at least the male characters - are bright but not deep, and the female characters are less bright and less deep. It may also be the least gothic incest story

Comments

[heliopausa]

I'm glad the Maias escaped Gothic doom. And intrigued, too - what a century of change that was! Because they'd surely have ended up like the House of Usher if they been written fifty years earlier - and here they are being perfectly stable late nineteenth century bourgeoisie, like The History of Mr Polly or something.
I'd like to read it sometime, though I can't see that I'm likely to get to it soon.

[evelyn_b]

It's worth reading! Not a book you have to rush off and read immediately so your life can be changed, but interesting and fun.

[liadtbunny]

Because rom-coms tend to be light so it should be easier for them as a genre to be enjoyable and therefore it's annoying when it's not? I'm not having much luck with the lighter side of Shakespeare.

[evelyn_b]

That's probably part of it! I don't necessarily have a great time with Shakespeare's comedies, either - though I do remember enjoying As You Like It (haven't read it in almost ten years(!) though!)

[liadtbunny]

I keep mixing it up with 'All's Well that Ends Well' as they both begin with an 'A':S