Wednesday reading — highly anticipated
Mar. 18th, 2015 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayhapWhat I've been reading
I read Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier's book, which sounded really fun—rival mob bosses! ghosts! razors!—but was actually kind of a snooze to read. I thought the present storyline had too much aimless running around and yet the extensive and sometimes haphazard flashbacks made it seem slow. Oh well.
I read A Little Life, which is 700 pages of industrial-strength hurt/comfort cunningly disguised as respectable literary fiction. There is so much whump and yet also so much wish-fulfillment, it is incredibly delicious to read if you're into that sort of thing. The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara's first book, had a much more cerebral plot, and this book is all about the feels. I may have sobbed through the last hundred pages or so.
I read Razorhurst, Justine Larbalestier's book, which sounded really fun—rival mob bosses! ghosts! razors!—but was actually kind of a snooze to read. I thought the present storyline had too much aimless running around and yet the extensive and sometimes haphazard flashbacks made it seem slow. Oh well.
I read A Little Life, which is 700 pages of industrial-strength hurt/comfort cunningly disguised as respectable literary fiction. There is so much whump and yet also so much wish-fulfillment, it is incredibly delicious to read if you're into that sort of thing. The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara's first book, had a much more cerebral plot, and this book is all about the feels. I may have sobbed through the last hundred pages or so.
