I getta do the book meme!
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frayadjacentBecause I'm not reading journal articles any more! For like a month and a half. And since I can't read the internet at home right now, I had to crack a book.
(I've noticed people don't include fic in this meme. Even if others did, I wouldn't want to -- too many of my favorite fic writers are on my r-list. It's just a bit awkward.)
What did you just finish reading?
Yesterday -- Imaginary Girls, by Nova Ren Suma. I found out about this fromchaila! Interesting, creepy YA horrory novel, and a quick read. I liked it! It revolves around two sisters' relationship. As chaila said, they are the most important people in each other's lives, and the book neither romanticizes nor (completely) villifies that. I loved the way it presented the relationship between people and place, where characters' very existence was bound to a specific location. The characters were interesting and well-written. The ending is sort of unsettling in that it doesn't really answer the questions that most of the book sets up. But that felt OK?
Today -- Coraline, the graphic novel, by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russel. It was an interesting and fun read. I would have loved it as a kid. It would have scared the crap out of me and it had a talking cat. What more would I need?
What are you currently reading?
Um, Moving to Melbourne: a Practical Guide. Which so far hasn't told me anything I hadn't already figured out or been told by other people.
Free book-question-shaped space
So, I want to get through as many of my actual physical paper books as possible before moving (I'll be getting rid of most of them). But in the meantime I'm collecting e-books for the move itself -- and after we arrive -- and I keep just wanting to read those instead! But I really, really am going to give China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston one more try. Every year or two I pick it up, enjoy it for ~10 pages, put it down, get distracted by TV/the internet/work/bouncy balls and forget about it.
(I've noticed people don't include fic in this meme. Even if others did, I wouldn't want to -- too many of my favorite fic writers are on my r-list. It's just a bit awkward.)
What did you just finish reading?
Yesterday -- Imaginary Girls, by Nova Ren Suma. I found out about this from
chaila! Interesting, creepy YA horrory novel, and a quick read. I liked it! It revolves around two sisters' relationship. As chaila said, they are the most important people in each other's lives, and the book neither romanticizes nor (completely) villifies that. I loved the way it presented the relationship between people and place, where characters' very existence was bound to a specific location. The characters were interesting and well-written. The ending is sort of unsettling in that it doesn't really answer the questions that most of the book sets up. But that felt OK? Today -- Coraline, the graphic novel, by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russel. It was an interesting and fun read. I would have loved it as a kid. It would have scared the crap out of me and it had a talking cat. What more would I need?
What are you currently reading?
Um, Moving to Melbourne: a Practical Guide. Which so far hasn't told me anything I hadn't already figured out or been told by other people.
Free book-question-shaped space
So, I want to get through as many of my actual physical paper books as possible before moving (I'll be getting rid of most of them). But in the meantime I'm collecting e-books for the move itself -- and after we arrive -- and I keep just wanting to read those instead! But I really, really am going to give China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston one more try. Every year or two I pick it up, enjoy it for ~10 pages, put it down, get distracted by TV/the internet/work/bouncy balls and forget about it.