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Wednesday What Are You Reading
Oct. 8th, 2014 09:44 pmCurrently Reading
Castle Gay (John Buchan) - for the first time I have made it all the way through chapter two and not skipped any of the career of Mr Thomas Carlyle Craw. I do like Buchan.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) - also a re-read; I described it as 'magnificently tacky' before I picked it up again, and I stand by that assessment.
Recently Finished
The Lantern (Deborah Lawrenson) - at last. Seriously, don't bother. Read Rebecca instead. As an homage to du Maurier, this is an insult.
Up Next
Still The Left Hand of Darkness, if only I can find a copy. And The House of the Four Winds. (I do not possess a copy of Huntingtower. Disgraceful.)
Abandoned
Cat (Freya North) - I think I tried this before, and gave up then, too. I was hoping that, having been seriously into pro cycling for almost three years now, I would get on better with it this time around. I didn't. It's not so much the fact that this was written in 1999, when Armstrong was racing, and I'm reading in 2014, when he never raced, as the tense changes making me seasick and the extended passages with the narrative voice in dialogue with the characters, in italics to boot, which was just too much like hard work.
Other Media
There is a series about film music on BBC4 at the moment, prompted by which I watched A Fistful of Dollars. I want to watch more films, but I never quite manage to get the to cinema.
Castle Gay (John Buchan) - for the first time I have made it all the way through chapter two and not skipped any of the career of Mr Thomas Carlyle Craw. I do like Buchan.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) - also a re-read; I described it as 'magnificently tacky' before I picked it up again, and I stand by that assessment.
Recently Finished
The Lantern (Deborah Lawrenson) - at last. Seriously, don't bother. Read Rebecca instead. As an homage to du Maurier, this is an insult.
Up Next
Still The Left Hand of Darkness, if only I can find a copy. And The House of the Four Winds. (I do not possess a copy of Huntingtower. Disgraceful.)
Abandoned
Cat (Freya North) - I think I tried this before, and gave up then, too. I was hoping that, having been seriously into pro cycling for almost three years now, I would get on better with it this time around. I didn't. It's not so much the fact that this was written in 1999, when Armstrong was racing, and I'm reading in 2014, when he never raced, as the tense changes making me seasick and the extended passages with the narrative voice in dialogue with the characters, in italics to boot, which was just too much like hard work.
Other Media
There is a series about film music on BBC4 at the moment, prompted by which I watched A Fistful of Dollars. I want to watch more films, but I never quite manage to get the to cinema.
