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One more Weekend What Are You Reading
Apr. 5th, 2014 10:42 amCurrently Reading
Out of the Blue (Charlotte Bingham), which is pretty awful. It's a sort of time-travelly chick-lit (may be reincarnation rather than time-travel - they are just about to bring in a medium) with nasty misogynistic overtones (except for when it's a character the author likes) and absolutely no sense of time. Which is a problem, given the theme. The characters are not believable and the language is clumsy. Also, if the author must employ moustachioed-RAF slang, she might at least spell it correctly.
Nearly finished the first part of Pilgrim's Progress, though I fear I am not giving the spiritual discourses the attention that Bunyan would wish.
Recently Finished
Mary Barton (Elizabeth Gaskell). Do not use this as an organising manual. Or as a campaigning manual. Actually, I did enjoy the two separate halves of this book, but they don't mesh together very well, and Gaskell doesn't know enough about how trade unions work to make part two follow plausibly from part one. I'd recommend Strumpet City as a less sensationalist take on a similar theme.
Various Pets Alive And Dead (Marina Lewycka) - the banking collapse, as seen from within and also from Doncaster, via the perspective of an ex-commune family, one of whom has sold out. Rather fun but not her best.
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Rachel Cohn and David Levithan) - I was whingeing last week about first-person narrators. I nearly gave up on this one before the end of the first page because Dash was so annoying. So was Lily. But they improve as their paper relationship progresses, and this is quite a sweet book.
Up Next
Not sure; will see what I feel like on Monday morning.
Other media
Not much, due to sudden explosion of social life. I got to Monday night's Rev. on Thursday, by which time I'd been largely spoiled for the particularly topical aspects. I have to say that it didn't have me in tears, unlike the last time it dealt with this issue, although I did yelp in pain at a particular line of the Archdeacon's...
Out of the Blue (Charlotte Bingham), which is pretty awful. It's a sort of time-travelly chick-lit (may be reincarnation rather than time-travel - they are just about to bring in a medium) with nasty misogynistic overtones (except for when it's a character the author likes) and absolutely no sense of time. Which is a problem, given the theme. The characters are not believable and the language is clumsy. Also, if the author must employ moustachioed-RAF slang, she might at least spell it correctly.
Nearly finished the first part of Pilgrim's Progress, though I fear I am not giving the spiritual discourses the attention that Bunyan would wish.
Recently Finished
Mary Barton (Elizabeth Gaskell). Do not use this as an organising manual. Or as a campaigning manual. Actually, I did enjoy the two separate halves of this book, but they don't mesh together very well, and Gaskell doesn't know enough about how trade unions work to make part two follow plausibly from part one. I'd recommend Strumpet City as a less sensationalist take on a similar theme.
Various Pets Alive And Dead (Marina Lewycka) - the banking collapse, as seen from within and also from Doncaster, via the perspective of an ex-commune family, one of whom has sold out. Rather fun but not her best.
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (Rachel Cohn and David Levithan) - I was whingeing last week about first-person narrators. I nearly gave up on this one before the end of the first page because Dash was so annoying. So was Lily. But they improve as their paper relationship progresses, and this is quite a sweet book.
Up Next
Not sure; will see what I feel like on Monday morning.
Other media
Not much, due to sudden explosion of social life. I got to Monday night's Rev. on Thursday, by which time I'd been largely spoiled for the particularly topical aspects. I have to say that it didn't have me in tears, unlike the last time it dealt with this issue, although I did yelp in pain at a particular line of the Archdeacon's...
