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February Books
Mar. 1st, 2006 02:33 pm( Books read in Feburary )
First off, I love the Mediator books! I'd been avoiding them because I thought they were going to be children's futuristic sci-fi, which is not my kind of thing at all, but I really enjoyed them, more than I have been enjoying the recent Princess Diaries books. I was hoping to keep getting them from the library, but they're not on the shelves, so I'll have a look to see if Preston or Morecambe have them. I can't really remember The True Meaning of Cleavage. I suspect it was not particularly good, in that case. Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America was okayish, but not great. Sophie is from London (a background portrayed as a rather muddled mix of upper and middle class), and exchanges for a summer with her mother's friend's daughter in Brooklyn. I think it was supposed to be about how Brooklyn taught her to be less uptight, but it was very annoying. They called her Soph and didn't listen when she said she didn't like it, and her mum hadn't told her that she was going to be an unpaid babysitter all summer, so she did that while her counterpart walked the dogs every now and then. The Blank Wall is a Persephone book, and kind of crime based. It was really, really good, and I want to read more of her work now. I also really liked Daughter of Earth (which was a chicklit bookswap gain) and I'm going to try adn get hold of some of Agnes Smedley's non-fic about China, and political agitation.
First off, I love the Mediator books! I'd been avoiding them because I thought they were going to be children's futuristic sci-fi, which is not my kind of thing at all, but I really enjoyed them, more than I have been enjoying the recent Princess Diaries books. I was hoping to keep getting them from the library, but they're not on the shelves, so I'll have a look to see if Preston or Morecambe have them. I can't really remember The True Meaning of Cleavage. I suspect it was not particularly good, in that case. Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America was okayish, but not great. Sophie is from London (a background portrayed as a rather muddled mix of upper and middle class), and exchanges for a summer with her mother's friend's daughter in Brooklyn. I think it was supposed to be about how Brooklyn taught her to be less uptight, but it was very annoying. They called her Soph and didn't listen when she said she didn't like it, and her mum hadn't told her that she was going to be an unpaid babysitter all summer, so she did that while her counterpart walked the dogs every now and then. The Blank Wall is a Persephone book, and kind of crime based. It was really, really good, and I want to read more of her work now. I also really liked Daughter of Earth (which was a chicklit bookswap gain) and I'm going to try adn get hold of some of Agnes Smedley's non-fic about China, and political agitation.
