The pile of books threatening to topple over and take out my laptop may be a sign that I haven't written about any books in a while. I've been meaning to, but I kept waiting to write something thoughtful, and now there might be a book avalanche and the library wants some of the books back, so I need to at least just list them out.
So, after the most awesome wedding of all time (YAY, my best friend is married!!!), I suddenly found myself with tons of free time for the first time in months, and as well as catching up on my coffee and adult beverages with other friends, and tv, and READING. Roughly in order:
Heresy S.J. Parris
Prophecy S.J. Parris
A Not So Perfect Crime Teresa Solana, translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush
Serena Ron Rash
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Heidi W. Durrow
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove Susan Gregg Gilmore
The Children's Book A.S. Byatt
The Sisters Brothers Patrick DeWitt
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead Sara Gran
The Red Garden Alice Hoffman
I ALSO read Ransom Riggs' fantastic Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, but I'm not sure where in the order it goes...maybe between Serena and before The Girl Who Fell From the Sky? I know the Parris books came right after the wedding, if not during; I figured more-or-less brainless period mysteries would be nice and relaxing. Then I think I grabbed the Solana off my bookcase one day because I needed a paperback (something light) to carry with me some where (which is funny, because I totally took it on a trip to DC to visit E for the same reason, and never got around to reading it). And those all feel like they happened a while ago, but the Durrow seems relatively recent, so I think Ransom must have been before it...
In any case, Miss Peregrine's is going to get its own glowing review, just not now. And when did I read the even more awesome, although very different, River of Smoke (Amitav Ghosh)?
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I just finished "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern, which I think you might enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThe aesthetics are pretty spot-on for this sort of thing, and some of it even takes place in Massachusetts. Harvard is a minor plot point!
Plus, you know, magic and such.
Oh, thanks, I was wondering how that had turned out for you!
ReplyDeletePlus, "magic" reminds me that I also read "The Magician King" by Lev Grossman, as well as "All About Lulu" by Jonathan Evison (that one doesn't have anything to do with magic, but I just finished it the other night).
Let's do a swap. I'll try to finish a write-up of "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" this week/end, and mail it to you...and hope the USPS doesn't return it to me.
Also good call on "Night Circus" I just realized I had posted it on "upcoming releases" at some point...
ReplyDeleteIt's a rare book that can live up to advance buzz of the sort "The Night Circus" has been getting. I had read the author plugs, the publisher's notes, the touting of film deals, and I had wondered what could really be so special about this novel to justify the hoopla.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I stuck it in the 'upcoming' list simply because the cover looked cool, but I can't say that I remember reading/hearing anything about it. But I am looking forward to reading it, if I can ever get my hands on a copy...and also looking forward to reading an upcoming Guest Review, by SEMiotic5, here!
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