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slemslempike) wrote2006-06-01 11:30 am
slemslempike) wrote2006-06-01 11:30 am
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May Books
May
The Player's Boy - Antonia Forest
The Bachelor of Arts - R K Narayan
The Shutters of Snow - Emily Holmes Coleman
The Player and the Rebels - Antonia Forest
Wonder - Rachel Vail
Delicate Matters - Vickery Turner
There Goes Summer - Mary Hooper
Life in a Cold Climate - Laura Thompson
Hey There Dollface - Deborah Hautzig
Mediator 3 - Meg Cabot
Teen Idol - Meg Cabot
Small Gains - KM Peyton
Ever After - Rachel Vail
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
Rereads - the two Antonia Forests, and the Rachel Vails, which I picked up recently after vaguely looking for them for a few years.
Life in a Cold Climate I found really tedious after a while - it was interesting to read about Nancy, but the style was abysmal. I'm really looking forward to Decca's letters later this year, it would be nice to read something that wasn't so automatically dismissive of her.
I was a bit disappointed in Small Gains. I've never liked Peyton's historical fiction as much as her modern day children's books, but even so I thought this was rather clunky, though I did like the heroine. I'm finding I enjoy Meg Cabot far more outside the Princess Diaries. Somehow less cloying, and I find email/IM conversations a it dull to read after a time.
Woman on the Edge of Time was wonderful. Very abrasive, and sometimes the utopia grated a little, but still really excellent. I did find that I wondered if I'd like to live in the utopia, but I also have a thing about inequality getting placed so that it seems to have the root of enjoyment/pleasure - things about power, and exclusion, and people thinking that they'd miss that, and that equality would spoil it. But I think I can't really imagine society without it, and so it seems all bound up instead.
The Player's Boy - Antonia Forest
The Bachelor of Arts - R K Narayan
The Shutters of Snow - Emily Holmes Coleman
The Player and the Rebels - Antonia Forest
Wonder - Rachel Vail
Delicate Matters - Vickery Turner
There Goes Summer - Mary Hooper
Life in a Cold Climate - Laura Thompson
Hey There Dollface - Deborah Hautzig
Mediator 3 - Meg Cabot
Teen Idol - Meg Cabot
Small Gains - KM Peyton
Ever After - Rachel Vail
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
Rereads - the two Antonia Forests, and the Rachel Vails, which I picked up recently after vaguely looking for them for a few years.
Life in a Cold Climate I found really tedious after a while - it was interesting to read about Nancy, but the style was abysmal. I'm really looking forward to Decca's letters later this year, it would be nice to read something that wasn't so automatically dismissive of her.
I was a bit disappointed in Small Gains. I've never liked Peyton's historical fiction as much as her modern day children's books, but even so I thought this was rather clunky, though I did like the heroine. I'm finding I enjoy Meg Cabot far more outside the Princess Diaries. Somehow less cloying, and I find email/IM conversations a it dull to read after a time.
Woman on the Edge of Time was wonderful. Very abrasive, and sometimes the utopia grated a little, but still really excellent. I did find that I wondered if I'd like to live in the utopia, but I also have a thing about inequality getting placed so that it seems to have the root of enjoyment/pleasure - things about power, and exclusion, and people thinking that they'd miss that, and that equality would spoil it. But I think I can't really imagine society without it, and so it seems all bound up instead.
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