Finished reading: N/A I haven't finished reading anything recently. This is what happens when I go on vacation; I don't read anything.

Currently reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I'm about halfway through it, and man, you guys - I really like this book. Can't quite rec it yet, because again, halfway through, but... it's a really ( Read more... )

Finished reading: A Gentleman of Leisure by P G Wodehouse. This one took a while to grow on me, and at the end, I still wasn't really into it. I think it might be because after reading one of the Jeeves novels, this set of characters just wasn't as fun in comparison. It didn't put me off Wodehouse, though - I'll read more eventually.

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Finished reading: Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P G Wodehouse. First time reading a Wodehouse novel; just happened to pick one at random. Quick and breezy read, rather a delight - if you hate first person fiction, it's one to avoid, but he POV character's narration is just so funny, I love it. I like Jeeves, and I like Bertie Wooster, and I ( Read more... )

Going to try to make this one quick.

Finished Reading: The Life of Elves by Muriel Barbery. Apparently, there's to be a sequel to this one. Anyway, like I've mentioned previously, the language used is lovely; major props to the translator - I bet it's even better in French. As for the novel itself... uh. Well. I feel as if I was eating an entire ( Read more... )

Finished reading: The Burying Ground by Janet Kellough. ...I was going to write a long thing about this, but I actually think I summed up my impressions of it decently in the previous entries, so. Scratch that. tl;dr: Decent but not amazing, worth a read if solving murders in mid-1800s Canada interests you. (Also: Nothing horrible happens to the ( Read more... )

I broke my ereader by dropping it on a cement floor the other day. Knew this would happen eventually. There are many reasons I prefer paper books, and that is one of them. It was an old-ass one - a Kobo Original; they were discontinued ages ago - so it isn't as if I broke some fancy new gadget, but I'm still not looking forward to replacing it ( Read more... )

Didn't have time yesterday to write the weekly reading out. Ah, well. Here it is.

Finished reading: Trading Jeff and His Dog by Jim Kjelgaard. I used to read a ton of stuff by this author back when I was a kid, but this is one that I wasn't able to get my hands on. I was introduced to this author's novels by my father, who read his work when he ( Read more... )

Finished reading: Born With a Tooth by Joseph Boyden. I've read and loved Joseph Boyden's work before, so no surprise that I liked this. This one, it's a collection of short stories, and it's really, really good. I could hardly put it down ( Read more... )

Slightly-belated, but I want to get this down, since my usual reading schedule has been interrupted and will be interrupted further in the upcoming weeks.

Recently Finished: Traplines by Eden Robinson. I had a lot of mixed feelings about her more recent novel, Blood Sports, but Traplines was excellent. It's a collection of four long unrelated ( Read more... )

Not even a week into the busy season, and I'm already feeling like a chicken running around with its head cut off. Well then. That sure is something.

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Currently reading Black and White Cinema: A Short History by Wheeler Winston Dixon. It's a general overview, but more than anything else, it spends a lot of time talking about ( Read more... )