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Wednesday What Are You Reading
Aug. 27th, 2014 03:52 pmCurrently Reading
Fame is the Spur (Howard Spring) - I have reached the end of part I; finding it rather slow going as I fear I'm going to end up hating the main character and would rather not.
Recently Finished
No! I don't want to join a book club (Virginia Ironside) - exactly the right sort of thing to read in the bath while feeling snuffly and sorry for oneself. I liked Marie and her friends, though I felt that none of the revelations about being sixty were really that startling - or, for that matter, particularly connected to age.
Cocktails for Three (Madeleine Wickham) - pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. I wasn't convinced by the naive Candice and her problem, but the other two of the titular three were attractive and believable characters, whose various dilemmas felt real and were treated compassionately.
Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella) - clichéd but entertaining amnesia plot, three years of life lost, etc etc. No idea whether the depiction of amnesia was realistic, but I rather enjoyed this.
Up Next
Back to Malinche, I think.
Poetry
The Orchard Book of Poems (ed. Adrian Mitchell) when I couldn't sleep last night. Absolutely delightful as ever.
Other media
Now thoroughly hooked on The West Wing; will have to trawl further charity shops for later series. Other TV consumption centred around the Vuelta a España. Devastated that the build team is leaving Mythbusters. (OK, perhaps not devastated. Mildly peeved.)
Fame is the Spur (Howard Spring) - I have reached the end of part I; finding it rather slow going as I fear I'm going to end up hating the main character and would rather not.
Recently Finished
No! I don't want to join a book club (Virginia Ironside) - exactly the right sort of thing to read in the bath while feeling snuffly and sorry for oneself. I liked Marie and her friends, though I felt that none of the revelations about being sixty were really that startling - or, for that matter, particularly connected to age.
Cocktails for Three (Madeleine Wickham) - pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. I wasn't convinced by the naive Candice and her problem, but the other two of the titular three were attractive and believable characters, whose various dilemmas felt real and were treated compassionately.
Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella) - clichéd but entertaining amnesia plot, three years of life lost, etc etc. No idea whether the depiction of amnesia was realistic, but I rather enjoyed this.
Up Next
Back to Malinche, I think.
Poetry
The Orchard Book of Poems (ed. Adrian Mitchell) when I couldn't sleep last night. Absolutely delightful as ever.
Other media
Now thoroughly hooked on The West Wing; will have to trawl further charity shops for later series. Other TV consumption centred around the Vuelta a España. Devastated that the build team is leaving Mythbusters. (OK, perhaps not devastated. Mildly peeved.)
