Ha, ha, blast from the past! I loved the books but I found the graphic novels and comic books more engaging. More expensive too, unfortunately....
Finished Sorry I’m Late. It was hilarious and horrifying in equal measures. Laughed out loud more than once but can’t really see myself doing the things she did and at times it was like my own thoughts had been stolen from my brain and written down. Getting up on stage to do a comedy routine? No thanks! I liked the book. A much easier read than A Prayer for Owen Meany. I like to mix it up. edit... I have 85 books currently on my ‘to read’ list. Someone pick a number between 1 and 85 for me so I don’t have to choose myself!
Number 2 is Autism in Heels by Jennifer O’Toole and Number 5 is Follow You Home by Mark Edwards. My next two reads. Thanks
Nope, right between the stacks. It was actually a battlecruiser and it turns out that speed isn't armor after all.
I've only read one, In One Person. I was excited to finally read a book with a bisexual male protagonist, but I found it almost offensively boring. It was so annoying that I immediately started outlining my own "I can do better than that" book.
I just finished The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. This one will stay with me for a while. It's not what I thought it would be, considering I found it on a list of horror books. If you're unfamiliar, it's about the systematic torture of a high school girl vaguely based on a true story. I'm very glad I read it, but it was uber disturbing. Now I'm working on Rosemary's Baby, which is downright cheerful in comparison. I also finally got around to finishing Consider This by Chuck Palaniuk. If you're a fan of his fiction, it's totally worth a read. I have to read more Palahniuk now that I have all this insight into his process. I wouldn't say it was the number one writing manual I've read so far, but it's right up there.
It's okay. Im about 200 pages in so far of 1000(slow reading atm while i spend all my time writing). So im still well inside first act territory, so thats' probably why im still waiting for the "ooooh this is REALLY good" feeling of seeing why people consider his books special. I dont know when the book came out, but Kaladin reminds me so far of a youthful version of General Maximus in Gladiator, and Shallan is currently a bit wishy-washy. But apart from one scene, it clips along at a nice pace. There's a couple of interesting bits of uniqueness to the world he created (I wont write out here, since one could be considered a spoiler), and it's keeping me coming back to it more than another book i recently bought, so its technically beating the competition heh. It has the potential to be really good, its at a sold 7/10 so far, but then again, as i say, im only 1/5th in. Considering the rave reviews people give it the series, and people point out this one as regularly being in the top 5 of his work, im hopeful it'll impress me soon.
“... smart but oblivious, wracked with compassion for underdogs but matter-of-fact and indifferent besides, desperate to be liked yet irritating as hell”. Reading Autism in Heels is like reading the diary of someone who has been watching and observing me all my life. It’s strange.
Well that quote just put Autism in Heels on my to-read list. If that is not just an excellent summary of me I do not know what is.
It was interesting... a bit text-bookey at times but I liked that. The differences in males and female symptoms is quite stark but it doesn’t surprise me that females are generally still misdiagnosed and/or written off. There’s still no female specific diagnostic or screening test - it’s all based on male research on male subjects - which basically means females have to be worse off than males in order to get a diagnosis based on the traditional diagnostic criteria. Have also just finished the June book club book Wishful Drinking. It’s quite short and easy to read, so I thought I’d squeeze it in just in case I feel able to join in the conversation when it begins. Now about to start psychological thriller Follow You Home by Mark Edwards. “It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. After a perfect start, Daniel and Laura’s travels end abruptly when they are thrown off a night train in the middle of nowhere. To find their way back to civilisation, they must hike along the tracks through a forest…a haunting journey that ends in unimaginable terror. Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what they saw that night. But as they try to fit back into their old lives, it becomes clear that their nightmare is just beginning...” I’ve read one of his other books - Magpies - which was okay, though a bit flat, so we’ll see what this one is like.
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I was turned onto it from the last book discussion poll, and I love it so far.
I took a day this weekend to sit and read Percival Everett's Wounded and I have to say it's one of the best novels I've read in a long time. Simple story with a foreseeable conclusion, but that was never the point. It even admits its ending was as obvious as could be yet the delivery and the tone in which it carried its themes made the story worthwhile. I've always been a fan of these modern westerns, as they carry a tone and utilize scenery that speaks in a language clear to me. Thoroughly enjoyable read that makes the reader uncomfortable at times purposefully. It's grounded very heavily in reality, and I can respect it for that.
Finished Follow You Home. It was ok, nothing spectacular. Wouldn’t read it again. The characters were a bit one dimensional and I never really found myself caring about them either way. A little twist at the end, which I guessed only about 5 pages prior. Terrible research on some of the medical elements... apparently one can have a minor cardiac arrest. I still have 85 books on my to read list because I bought two more the other day. Pick a number... ?
