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Things I read
Oct. 17th, 2006 07:27 pmI got the new Diana Wynne Jones book, "The Pinhoe Egg", this weekend. Also the new Charlaine Harris, "Grave Surprise". Weeeee, then I read them both in two days. I am wondering if the eked out plot threads of the Harris book (the parts that overlap from book to book of the series) would seem more confusing to me if I hadn't recently read other books (like Monette's "The Virtu") that deal with the same issue very directly?
And of course I loooooooved "The Pinhoe Egg" because all Diana Wynne Jones books are twisty little piles of pleasure that make my brain wiggle with glee and cause me to really want to read bits out loud.
I also got to read a short story of hers in the antho "Firebirds Rising" this month, and that was great too. Full of the fun of long words. And the way reality twists about so much when you're a kid, and people don't understand you because you're communicating in a whole different private language that of course you had to make up because you don't know theirs yet, but you don't have any sense that there is a consensus language, so your language still feels as valid as theirs.
And now I've got the new Debi Gliori "Pure Dead" book - "Pure Dead Batty" - which is apparently "Deep Water" if you live in the U.K. I like those books - they're so cute and yet so wrong, like the book version of fuzzy puppies with little goth outfits on.
And of course I loooooooved "The Pinhoe Egg" because all Diana Wynne Jones books are twisty little piles of pleasure that make my brain wiggle with glee and cause me to really want to read bits out loud.
I also got to read a short story of hers in the antho "Firebirds Rising" this month, and that was great too. Full of the fun of long words. And the way reality twists about so much when you're a kid, and people don't understand you because you're communicating in a whole different private language that of course you had to make up because you don't know theirs yet, but you don't have any sense that there is a consensus language, so your language still feels as valid as theirs.
And now I've got the new Debi Gliori "Pure Dead" book - "Pure Dead Batty" - which is apparently "Deep Water" if you live in the U.K. I like those books - they're so cute and yet so wrong, like the book version of fuzzy puppies with little goth outfits on.
