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Literary Taradiddles
Aug. 18th, 2005 12:55 pmCurrently reading book four in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, by Alexander McCall Smith. I have the third, and yesterday picked up the fourth and the fifth, and will make my way back to the first and the second eventually. These are charming, light but not at all fluffy books, with great characterization and an excellence sense of place, which is why I enjoy them so.
Also just recovered my copy of Time and Again by Jack Finney. It's a book I love very much, although I don't have strong feelings about the main character at all. I don't dislike him, and we get his first-person viewpoint throughout the book, but he still feels detatched from me. It's a book where plot trumps character, and while those books usually don't work at all for me, I do like this one very much. It helps that it's total wish-fulfilment for me.
Yesterday, I mailed off a Very Important Envelope. What response I may get from that is currently in the lap of the gods.
The weather, and consequently my mood, is much improved. Huzzah!
Also just recovered my copy of Time and Again by Jack Finney. It's a book I love very much, although I don't have strong feelings about the main character at all. I don't dislike him, and we get his first-person viewpoint throughout the book, but he still feels detatched from me. It's a book where plot trumps character, and while those books usually don't work at all for me, I do like this one very much. It helps that it's total wish-fulfilment for me.
Yesterday, I mailed off a Very Important Envelope. What response I may get from that is currently in the lap of the gods.
The weather, and consequently my mood, is much improved. Huzzah!