I've been reading a lot, currently on my 50th for the year! It's funny; I was reading nothing but YA for a few months. So in April I told myself I should read at least one 'grown-up' book per month. And then I read nothing *but* grown-up books for a solid month!
One that I loved was The Eyre Affair, a fun, alternate-reality filled with wordplay, and none of the fuss of dystopia or vampire shit. Thursday Next (what a freaking awesome name!) is featured in a bunch more books; I've requested them from my neighborhood library!
One that I didn't love was 1984. I read half of it years ago and found it fascinating. I bought it later and it's been on my shelf ever since. My book club decided to read that (and Brave New World, which I read in 2007 while in Amsterdam) this month, so I picked it up and read the whole thing. Blaaaaahhhh I was bored silly for the first half (and a little alarmed at the misogyny at the beginning!). Then things finally picked up. It got super boring for about fifteen straight pages and then a little more interesting at the end. Overall, I was kind of underwhelmed. Is that wrong? I don't know, I'm just kind of over that genre. Everyone and their mom is publishing dystopian fiction lately and UGH. Anyway, I wrote a haiku to summarize the book!
Pessimist author
The man always keeps us down
There is never hope
Gosh, that's depressing, sorry! :)
Here's a happy for you though: check out these fun bookshelves (via Neatorama)!
My favorite is this one:
Makes sense, seeing as how I seem to keep acquiring books (having friends in publishing is bad news for one's bookshelves!) and running out of room!
Sidebar: Recently I followed a link to a blog called Unclutterer, which has me inspired to start eyeing things that are extra and unneeded. Actually, just this afternoon I did another sweep of my shelves and cleared out almost two feet of books that will go on the street/to the laundry room bookswap shelf. So my imaginary twin bookshelf would be going in, not out. :)
Finally, (as seen again on Neatorama) Amazon published an "official" list of the most well-read cities in the US, based on their sales (totally objective!).
- Cambridge, Mass.
- Alexandria, Va.
- Berkeley, Calif.
- Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Boulder, Colo.
- Miami
- Salt Lake City
- Gainesville, Fla.
- Seattle
- Arlington, Va.
- Knoxville, Tenn.
- Orlando, Fla.
- Pittsburgh
- Washington, D.C.
- Bellevue, Wash.
- Columbia, S.C.
- St. Louis, Mo.
- Cincinnati
- Portland, Ore.
- Atlanta
Anyway, hope you get some good reading in on this long weekend!
No comments:
Post a Comment