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fiveforsilverFirst books of May:
48. Sunshine by Robin McKinley (405)
Still my favorite book. It's funny, because all the things that so many people dislike about it - the informal, somewhat scattered narrative, the random bits of information that aren't really related to the plot, the shadowy half-defined secondary characters that nonetheless are important parts of the story - are all things I love about it, that makes it perfect for me.
I heard an interview with Salmon Rushdie that likened oral storytelling to a juggler that keeps throwing more and more balls into the air and how you're just watching to see how they keep them all in sync, and I think that's the kind of story Sunshine is - not a straightforward, beginning-middle-end story but a meandering, sidelining, keep-adding-another-ball kind of story.
Most of McKinley's novels are like that, actually.
49. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane (226)
50. Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane (272)
One of my favorite YA series, although that's becoming a long list. Deep Wizardry is without question my favorite book in the series. My only problem with it is that the whalespeak is inconsistent - sometimes S'reee understands and uses human terms for things, sometimes she doesn't.
51. *The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (250)
I'm glad I bought this, because I definitely will have to read it again before I can really make a judgment on it. I love the movie. I mean, I love the movie. I don't think it's the best movie ever or anything, but I'm not sure when I last saw a movie that really got book people, especially such a variety of them. I adore movie-Grigg, the geeky sci-fi guy. The conversation between him and Jocelyn where he says he thinks she would like Ursula Le Guin is so perfect, so realistic, so exactly how that kind of exchange really goes. As are the other conversations they have about SF books (well, I can't speak to the last one personally, but I'm sure it's happened somewhere).
Um. The book. I'll have to not watch the movie for a while, and then reread the book, I think. I liked it, I liked it well enough to reread it, but I keep seeing scenes from the movie when I try to think about what happened in the book.
51 / 110 books. 46% done!
19 / 75 *new books. 25% done!
2 / 10 ^non-fiction. 20% done!
15593 / 33000 pages. 47% done!
Currently reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (yes, for exactly the reason you're thinking)
48. Sunshine by Robin McKinley (405)
Still my favorite book. It's funny, because all the things that so many people dislike about it - the informal, somewhat scattered narrative, the random bits of information that aren't really related to the plot, the shadowy half-defined secondary characters that nonetheless are important parts of the story - are all things I love about it, that makes it perfect for me.
I heard an interview with Salmon Rushdie that likened oral storytelling to a juggler that keeps throwing more and more balls into the air and how you're just watching to see how they keep them all in sync, and I think that's the kind of story Sunshine is - not a straightforward, beginning-middle-end story but a meandering, sidelining, keep-adding-another-ball kind of story.
Most of McKinley's novels are like that, actually.
49. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane (226)
50. Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane (272)
One of my favorite YA series, although that's becoming a long list. Deep Wizardry is without question my favorite book in the series. My only problem with it is that the whalespeak is inconsistent - sometimes S'reee understands and uses human terms for things, sometimes she doesn't.
51. *The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (250)
I'm glad I bought this, because I definitely will have to read it again before I can really make a judgment on it. I love the movie. I mean, I love the movie. I don't think it's the best movie ever or anything, but I'm not sure when I last saw a movie that really got book people, especially such a variety of them. I adore movie-Grigg, the geeky sci-fi guy. The conversation between him and Jocelyn where he says he thinks she would like Ursula Le Guin is so perfect, so realistic, so exactly how that kind of exchange really goes. As are the other conversations they have about SF books (well, I can't speak to the last one personally, but I'm sure it's happened somewhere).
Um. The book. I'll have to not watch the movie for a while, and then reread the book, I think. I liked it, I liked it well enough to reread it, but I keep seeing scenes from the movie when I try to think about what happened in the book.
Currently reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (yes, for exactly the reason you're thinking)
