Read "The Art of Racing in the Rain" a few weeks ago. I finished "The Girl in Steel Capped Boots" about 2 weeks ago, I finished Wuthering Heights last night, and I am currently up to chapter 14 of Jane Eyre. I also have "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" on hold at the local library.
I have just finished Simple Simon a free ebook I downloaded from amazon. Not too bad, not sure what to start on next. On holiday lazing by the pool, I'm sure ill have time to read one more before we go home
I'm reading Michael Ondaatji's Divisadero. Not by choice either it's for my english lit unit and OMG it's hard to read. He also wrote the English patient and I hated that movie! I think it's tainted my opinion of this book though.
Trillian I started reading the english patient. Most boring book ever. I didn't get too far into it. I couldn't bring myself to watch the movie after that
I've been reading Paullina Simons' two latest books, and given up on them both.
"Children of Liberty" is the prequel (prilogy?) to the Bronze Horseman trilogy but it just doesn't work. The characters aren't likeable, the scenarios aren't authentic, it sucks.
"A Song In The Daylight" has the most heinous and unrealistic "heroine" of all time, some of the most ludicrous factual matrices I've ever come across, some of the blandest secondary characters, and while I understand she's doing a few throwbacks to Shakespeare and dabbling with a little intertextuality, the ending is just rubbish.
Her one before these (Road to Paradise) was overly self important and didn't seem to be thought through (slabs of dialogue, pages of it at a time) which just read as though it was the author sussing out what she thought about certain philosophical questions, and it was a bit crap, but there was enough to keep it moving and keep it interesting.
These two, not so much. I've put them both down. The first because I loved the three original books, and I don't want to ruin them but delving too deeply into the backstory which hurts the understanding of the characters... and this one (a stand alone 800 page monolith) because, well, it's useless.
Time to pick another book off the shelf, ladies...
It's really, really interesting. I didn't really go in with any preconceived notions of him (I've only ever seen him on Australian Idol (and quite frankly, there's nothing much wrong with him on that) and on listening to the recording of him and Jackie O with that poor teenager whose mother dragged her onto the lie detector show, and I felt really sorry for everyone involved in that mess) and so I'm just finding it interesting. It's not well written, there a lot of parts where I wonder what he was thinking, but it's just the tale of a guy with a bad childhood who swings between egomania and self loathing again and again and again ... and so many of us do that ... !
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it's for my english lit unit and OMG it's hard to read. He also wrote the English patient and I hated that movie! I think it's tainted my opinion of this book though.
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