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mayhapWhat I've been reading
I read Vita Brevis: A Letter to St. Augustine, which is RPF by the author of Sophie's World and very satisfying if you have ever read any of Augustine's Confessions and just wanted to start arguing with him about how incredibly wrong he is about everything but especially about women.
I read P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, which is delightful if you like a.) Wodehouse and b.) letters, which I very much do.
I read The Little Friend, because I enjoyed The Goldfinch that much, and if I hadn't been reading it on my iPad I likely would have thrown the book across the room. I had a vague impression that people were annoyed with the end of this book, and it is, in fact, annoying! It's not just that there is no solution to the murder of Robin. I mean, that's annoying, but I expected from the beginning that there wouldn't be, that it was going to be "realistic" in that way. But it barely resolves the present-day story with Harriet and the methheads either! I swear, it's like the actual last chapter was accidentally amputated or something! Argh.
I read The Girl in Blue, a late standalone Wodehouse that I may or may not have read before—as the man himself said, they do all have the same plot, so it can be difficult to recall.
I read Parasite Rex, which is awesome, in the senses of "cool" and "horrifying". Parasites: can't live without them, can't learn about them without shrieks of disgust.
What I'm reading now
Still Medieval Iceland.
I read Vita Brevis: A Letter to St. Augustine, which is RPF by the author of Sophie's World and very satisfying if you have ever read any of Augustine's Confessions and just wanted to start arguing with him about how incredibly wrong he is about everything but especially about women.
I read P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, which is delightful if you like a.) Wodehouse and b.) letters, which I very much do.
I read The Little Friend, because I enjoyed The Goldfinch that much, and if I hadn't been reading it on my iPad I likely would have thrown the book across the room. I had a vague impression that people were annoyed with the end of this book, and it is, in fact, annoying! It's not just that there is no solution to the murder of Robin. I mean, that's annoying, but I expected from the beginning that there wouldn't be, that it was going to be "realistic" in that way. But it barely resolves the present-day story with Harriet and the methheads either! I swear, it's like the actual last chapter was accidentally amputated or something! Argh.
I read The Girl in Blue, a late standalone Wodehouse that I may or may not have read before—as the man himself said, they do all have the same plot, so it can be difficult to recall.
I read Parasite Rex, which is awesome, in the senses of "cool" and "horrifying". Parasites: can't live without them, can't learn about them without shrieks of disgust.
What I'm reading now
Still Medieval Iceland.
