Reading as the only recourse for a HOT Summer

[starswan]

...okay, aside from plunging into a swimming pool, the ocean, rivers. If you have any of those nearby. I could really do with a trip to the beach. Anyway.

You ever go through periods where you are reading voraciously, where even eating a tasty treat creme brulee or watching a diverting program too many to list can't live up to your rapacious

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[puddleshark]

I really should try Ann Radcliffe some time - things stirring in the shadows, dark woods, and unseen enemies sounds like just my sort of thing!

[starswan]

It IS fun though....the little terrors around every corner make for some rather nervous, perpetually twitchy characters. :) There is not a few moments of rest but another villain pops up to spoil everyone's repose. But I love the poems proceeding every chapter, the lush descriptions of dark woods, sunlight and shadow, verdure, etc. The agonies the main character goes through on every page. XD

[ameliaingarden]

I loved The Romance of the Forest when I read it years ago. The heroine is so virtuous, the hero so dashing! The ruins so mouldering and the sinister noblemen so sinister! There'll be a boring sermon on Rousseauistic (is that a word?) ideals that never Seems to end 3/4 into the book, but it's worth getting through. Everything gets very dramatic. I didn't like Udolpho as much, though

I'm always reading many books at a time.

[starswan]

I'm always reading many books at a time.

Same here!

I have read Rousseau and am prepared-ish.
That would totally be a word in French. "rousseauistic" and "rousseauistically".

[ameliaingarden]

It's more the way in which she inserts it all into the story than the Rousseauistic ideas themselves which were draining - but it's worth getting through it nevertheless, the rest of the book is very Dramatic and Romantic and all possible things!

[a_phoenixdragon]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel this was not sufficient enthusiam.

I do love books, but I've been so sucked in with fanfic -

Yeah, need to read Moar BOOKS.

*HUGS*

[starswan]

Well, then have I got an entry for you coming up.
I am practically swimming in books. It is frankly getting ridiculous. I ordered some books used and then my mother spotted three lovely books, like-new, hardcovers for $7 a piece. :OO
And there are free, olde books for Kindle and just....it is getting so out of hand!

BOOKS