Currently physically on my bedtable: Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak
Jane Dawkins, Letters from Pemberley: the First Year
About as bad as you'd expect, and I failed to be charmed by the inclusion
of Mr. and Mrs. "Daley" and their estate "Weldon" or the
others.
Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Robin McKinley, The Blue Sword, and C.S. Lewis, The
Horse and His Boy
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and
Clay
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Louis Sachar, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes!
George Eliot, Middlemarch
24 August 2002
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Hilma Wolitzer, Toby Lived Here
Noel Streatfeild, Dancing Shoes, Theater Shoes, Ballet
Shoes
15 August 2002
Richard Russo, Empire Falls
August 2002. I complained about this elsewhere, but I just realized something
else. We never learn why Tick is called Tick instead of Christina, which
is another thing, besides the dangerous driver ed courses, it lifts from Nobody's
Fool. We know why Wacker is called Wacker but never his given name.
Cynthia Voigt, Bad Girls in Love
Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere
4 August 2002
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Jean Slaughter Doty, Can I Get There by Candlelight?
One of the few non-Marguerite Henry horse books I liked, probably more because
of the ghosty time travel than the medium of the pony. Anyway, my latest score
from internet used book stores; I hadn't read it for many many years.
12 July 2002
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
This really didn't thrill me for a couple hundred pages. By the time
it did, I had been too long approaching it as an assignment. There was only
about a third left when it started blowing my hair back, and I read it in too
small doses for the full effect. My fault. Very good. And one of my Books o'
Shame, finished. Another was May's Invisible Man, so I am much relieved.
12 July 2002
Harry Potter
I reread all four. When did Harry get a watch? In SS, he wants a watch;
in GF, he gives up on his watch after it's got wet a final time.
Mary Anderson, Step on a Crack
One of my first scores from an online used book store. Set in New York City,
heavily Freudian in an Alice in Wonderland kind of way; but besides
the common Electra complex (hardly surprising for favorite books of my adolescence)
not fraught with parallels to The Cat in the Mirror.
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel
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