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slemslempikeSlightly Single - Wendy Markham
My Shit Life So Far - Frankie Boyle
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
That Summer - Sarah Dessen
Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell
Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
A Damsel in Distress - PG Wodehouse
Santaland Diaries - David Sedaris
The Ranch - Danielle Steel
Slightly Single was one of the unexpected (to me) romance novels that I got in the bundle of e-books from my friend with a dad on the oil rigs. There's a boy who clearly isn't into her, but they've been together for ages. He goes off to do summer stock, ignoring her, she meets a man whom she can't date because she's in a relationship with the awful actor, so she just loses weight until the actor breaks up with her when he comes back to New York.
I am not a huge fan of Frankie Boyle, but mostly because he was on Mock the Week far too much and they were all so ridiculous about how bad he was. Anyway - pretty interesting, especially about his time on the circuit and how he got to where he was in comedy.
I have been talking about Ancillary Justice to people ever since I finished it. I wasn't expecting to like it quite as much as I did - but the multiple bodied consciousness was really interesting (I don't read much sci-fi so it wasn't something I'd read much before). I also liked that everyone was given female pronouns. It made me happy to think that everyone wasn't a man.
I think I've had Sarah Dessen recommended to me a few times, but this is the first time I've acted on it. That Summer was fine? Kind of nothingy, but not necessarily in a bad way?
Lord Edgware Dies was clever! Actresses, impersonations, timings of dinner parties, being caught out by not knowing about Greek tragedies, well done Poirot.
I don't think I've reread Anne of Green Gables for at least a decade, and it was just as lovely as everything I remembered. This is the first time reading it that I really noticed how lovely it is with Marilla gradually letting herself love Anne, and how hard it is for her to show it. I downloaded the next few in the series from Gutenberg, but they corrupted so I need to try harder. Also Anne isn't as great when she grows up, but there you go. Such is womanhood in children's fiction.
I'd read quite a lot of the pieces in When you Are Engulfed in Flames before, so perhaps as a result of skipping half of it, nothing really stuck with me.
I've liked the Gladys Mitchell books that Greyladies republished, but When Last I Died was dull and confusing and the detective, Mrs Bradley, was deeply smug and annoying.
Foreign Affairs features two American academics from the same university separately transplanted to Londond for a small sabbatical. One writes about children's nursery rhymes, and is smarting after a nasty mention in the Atlantic magazine. She meets a Southern man she thinks is uncouth on the plane, but gradually falls in sort of love with him. The other one is supposed to be writing a book on a writer that I don't know whether is fictional or not, meets an actress who is also an Actual Lady and then leaves her to return to his feminist photographer wife, who he'd previously had a falling out with when she exhibitied a photo of two other men's cocks.
A Damsel in Distress was light and frothy and a little forgettable. Maud's aunt and brother are very concerned for the reputation of her family, and don't want her to marry a common man. So she marries a different common man, but a rich one.
I hadn't read any Danielle Steel before - and I was quite surprised. I was expecting either bonkbustery or full on Barbara Cartland romancey. It was more the latter than the former, but not very like either. Three friends from college go to a ranch together to get over a marriage breaking up over a child's suicide, a marriage breaking up over the wife's fame, and discovering that she has AIDS. Everyone lives happily every after with men at the end.
My Shit Life So Far - Frankie Boyle
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
That Summer - Sarah Dessen
Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell
Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
A Damsel in Distress - PG Wodehouse
Santaland Diaries - David Sedaris
The Ranch - Danielle Steel
Slightly Single was one of the unexpected (to me) romance novels that I got in the bundle of e-books from my friend with a dad on the oil rigs. There's a boy who clearly isn't into her, but they've been together for ages. He goes off to do summer stock, ignoring her, she meets a man whom she can't date because she's in a relationship with the awful actor, so she just loses weight until the actor breaks up with her when he comes back to New York.
I am not a huge fan of Frankie Boyle, but mostly because he was on Mock the Week far too much and they were all so ridiculous about how bad he was. Anyway - pretty interesting, especially about his time on the circuit and how he got to where he was in comedy.
I have been talking about Ancillary Justice to people ever since I finished it. I wasn't expecting to like it quite as much as I did - but the multiple bodied consciousness was really interesting (I don't read much sci-fi so it wasn't something I'd read much before). I also liked that everyone was given female pronouns. It made me happy to think that everyone wasn't a man.
I think I've had Sarah Dessen recommended to me a few times, but this is the first time I've acted on it. That Summer was fine? Kind of nothingy, but not necessarily in a bad way?
Lord Edgware Dies was clever! Actresses, impersonations, timings of dinner parties, being caught out by not knowing about Greek tragedies, well done Poirot.
I don't think I've reread Anne of Green Gables for at least a decade, and it was just as lovely as everything I remembered. This is the first time reading it that I really noticed how lovely it is with Marilla gradually letting herself love Anne, and how hard it is for her to show it. I downloaded the next few in the series from Gutenberg, but they corrupted so I need to try harder. Also Anne isn't as great when she grows up, but there you go. Such is womanhood in children's fiction.
I'd read quite a lot of the pieces in When you Are Engulfed in Flames before, so perhaps as a result of skipping half of it, nothing really stuck with me.
I've liked the Gladys Mitchell books that Greyladies republished, but When Last I Died was dull and confusing and the detective, Mrs Bradley, was deeply smug and annoying.
Foreign Affairs features two American academics from the same university separately transplanted to Londond for a small sabbatical. One writes about children's nursery rhymes, and is smarting after a nasty mention in the Atlantic magazine. She meets a Southern man she thinks is uncouth on the plane, but gradually falls in sort of love with him. The other one is supposed to be writing a book on a writer that I don't know whether is fictional or not, meets an actress who is also an Actual Lady and then leaves her to return to his feminist photographer wife, who he'd previously had a falling out with when she exhibitied a photo of two other men's cocks.
A Damsel in Distress was light and frothy and a little forgettable. Maud's aunt and brother are very concerned for the reputation of her family, and don't want her to marry a common man. So she marries a different common man, but a rich one.
I hadn't read any Danielle Steel before - and I was quite surprised. I was expecting either bonkbustery or full on Barbara Cartland romancey. It was more the latter than the former, but not very like either. Three friends from college go to a ranch together to get over a marriage breaking up over a child's suicide, a marriage breaking up over the wife's fame, and discovering that she has AIDS. Everyone lives happily every after with men at the end.
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Date: 2015-06-03 11:25 am (UTC)Yes, it was very like girlsown! Lots of lovely non-men all over the place.