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de Lint, Charles. The Blue Girl.
I finished this last night. I was vaguely dissatisfied with it, but I think that might be because of my age. This book was specifically intended for young adults, and there were several parts where the story struck my adult eyes as being rather didactic in inculcating virtues into its teen readers. Not that said virtues were any different from those typically championed in his stories, but it seemed a bit explicit. Even to the scene where the heroine meets her best friend's dragonish mother and discovers that she is *gasp* actually a fairly cool person and not an enemy. However I did find the telling witty and smooth, and laughed at several points. I seem to remember that when I was a teen, I read books much less critically, so I'm not sure if it would have bugged me as a teen.
Heyer, Georgette. The Unfinished Clue.
I'm reading my way through Georgette Heyer's whole ouevre, though I'm hesitant about reading the "historical" novels and haven't read any of those yet except for An Infamous Army. The Unfinished Clue I picked up used, and so far I'm sad because the hero of the other detective stories, Inspector Hemingway, has not appeared. Fortuitously synchronous to this reading, I discovered an essay on author Peter Dickinson's website about murder in country houses (his website is http://www.peterdickinson.com). So those have gone down well together.
Random bits and pieces.
Skimmed through an article in the Chicago Reader about murders in Chicago in the 1920s. Browsed rolling stone, finished up my bland Legal Research reading.
I joined a young adult librarian listserv, and have been wading through vast quantities of daily email about that. Most of the discussion right now is about the 6th Harry Potter book, which I haven't finished and won't for a month or two, because I'm reading it out loud with my husband. He read me a bit while I cooked dinner on Friday night, it was very nice to have someone read as I chopped and stirred. Reread half of one of the Books of Magic comic comps and a few poems from David Levithan's latest YA book while volunteering at the library on Saturday morning.
In Other Media
Watched the first episode of Angel, which we borrowed from our neighbors, and the third hour of the BBC Gormenghast production. I'm more ambivalent than ever on reading the Gormenghast books now - there aren't *any* really sympathetic characters in the whole mess.
I finished this last night. I was vaguely dissatisfied with it, but I think that might be because of my age. This book was specifically intended for young adults, and there were several parts where the story struck my adult eyes as being rather didactic in inculcating virtues into its teen readers. Not that said virtues were any different from those typically championed in his stories, but it seemed a bit explicit. Even to the scene where the heroine meets her best friend's dragonish mother and discovers that she is *gasp* actually a fairly cool person and not an enemy. However I did find the telling witty and smooth, and laughed at several points. I seem to remember that when I was a teen, I read books much less critically, so I'm not sure if it would have bugged me as a teen.
Heyer, Georgette. The Unfinished Clue.
I'm reading my way through Georgette Heyer's whole ouevre, though I'm hesitant about reading the "historical" novels and haven't read any of those yet except for An Infamous Army. The Unfinished Clue I picked up used, and so far I'm sad because the hero of the other detective stories, Inspector Hemingway, has not appeared. Fortuitously synchronous to this reading, I discovered an essay on author Peter Dickinson's website about murder in country houses (his website is http://www.peterdickinson.com). So those have gone down well together.
Random bits and pieces.
Skimmed through an article in the Chicago Reader about murders in Chicago in the 1920s. Browsed rolling stone, finished up my bland Legal Research reading.
I joined a young adult librarian listserv, and have been wading through vast quantities of daily email about that. Most of the discussion right now is about the 6th Harry Potter book, which I haven't finished and won't for a month or two, because I'm reading it out loud with my husband. He read me a bit while I cooked dinner on Friday night, it was very nice to have someone read as I chopped and stirred. Reread half of one of the Books of Magic comic comps and a few poems from David Levithan's latest YA book while volunteering at the library on Saturday morning.
In Other Media
Watched the first episode of Angel, which we borrowed from our neighbors, and the third hour of the BBC Gormenghast production. I'm more ambivalent than ever on reading the Gormenghast books now - there aren't *any* really sympathetic characters in the whole mess.
