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lady_schrapnellSo, there's a 'what books are you reading' meme going around the blogs and of course it couldn't have hit when I was reading hot-off-the-press and everyone's panting to get hold of them books, but when I was dutifully postponing a most tempting stash for course reading. Not sure where this actually started but I was tagged by Wendy from Blog from the Windowsill, whose reaction to being tagged made me laugh. A kindred spirit indeed (though I'm not in the middle of an Anne reread yet!)
Books I'm reading are Peter Pan, which just doesn't get any less weird on a reread. At all. I drift between real discomfort and rather cheerful bemusement. Stuck with an online read for now of McDonald's The Princess and the Goblin, though I should have a proper book tomorrow. I could have sworn I read both it and The Princess and Curdie as a child, but I seem to be wrong. (Relative reading pleasure response will be postponed until it's book-in-hand vs book-in-hand.) Also intermittently reading What Katy Read, by Shirley Foster and Judy Simons, Written for Children by John Rowe Townsend, and Secret Gardens, by Humphrey Carpenter.
In the unpublished sphere (that's surely the title of a good story!), there's very exciting beta-reading, but I won't include that as it's just too gloatey.
So - a lot more classics on the TBR pile, but in the new category - on my floor, the trunk by the window, somewhere en route to me from the States and in Charlie's house I have (in no order, except as I think of them): Breathe, by Penni Russon (sequel to Undine); The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages, Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse, Rick Riordan, The Tide Knot, Helen Dunmore, Peter Pan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean, The Phoenix Dance, Dia Calhoun, Senrid, by Sherwood Smith, London Calling (? I think that was in the stack of books Michele kindly loaned me?); Devilish, by Maureen Johnson, The Queen of Cool, Cecil Castellucci; I Am the Wallpaper & Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes... I'm feeling weak at the thought of all those lovely books! Oh, and just remembered Charlie also has China Mieville's Un Lun Dun and Shamanka, by Jeanne Willis for me, both of which he reviewed. And I've probably forgot some at that.
Who to tag, who to tag... Will have to see who's been tagged already first - probably everyone!
[ETA - I haven't seen MotherReader tagged yet, though I may have missed it, or Jen Robinson's Book Page, or (eech - I'm forgetting already the other two on a list of four) or Bookshelves of Doom? Have I missed them, or have they really not been tagged, but because they've all vowed bookly curses on anyone tagging them for memes? Little Willow/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
slayground ? Not sure anyone will see them here anyway! But I've done my taggley duty.]
Books I'm reading are Peter Pan, which just doesn't get any less weird on a reread. At all. I drift between real discomfort and rather cheerful bemusement. Stuck with an online read for now of McDonald's The Princess and the Goblin, though I should have a proper book tomorrow. I could have sworn I read both it and The Princess and Curdie as a child, but I seem to be wrong. (Relative reading pleasure response will be postponed until it's book-in-hand vs book-in-hand.) Also intermittently reading What Katy Read, by Shirley Foster and Judy Simons, Written for Children by John Rowe Townsend, and Secret Gardens, by Humphrey Carpenter.
In the unpublished sphere (that's surely the title of a good story!), there's very exciting beta-reading, but I won't include that as it's just too gloatey.
So - a lot more classics on the TBR pile, but in the new category - on my floor, the trunk by the window, somewhere en route to me from the States and in Charlie's house I have (in no order, except as I think of them): Breathe, by Penni Russon (sequel to Undine); The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages, Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse, Rick Riordan, The Tide Knot, Helen Dunmore, Peter Pan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean, The Phoenix Dance, Dia Calhoun, Senrid, by Sherwood Smith, London Calling (? I think that was in the stack of books Michele kindly loaned me?); Devilish, by Maureen Johnson, The Queen of Cool, Cecil Castellucci; I Am the Wallpaper & Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes... I'm feeling weak at the thought of all those lovely books! Oh, and just remembered Charlie also has China Mieville's Un Lun Dun and Shamanka, by Jeanne Willis for me, both of which he reviewed. And I've probably forgot some at that.
Who to tag, who to tag... Will have to see who's been tagged already first - probably everyone!
[ETA - I haven't seen MotherReader tagged yet, though I may have missed it, or Jen Robinson's Book Page, or (eech - I'm forgetting already the other two on a list of four) or Bookshelves of Doom? Have I missed them, or have they really not been tagged, but because they've all vowed bookly curses on anyone tagging them for memes? Little Willow/
slayground ? Not sure anyone will see them here anyway! But I've done my taggley duty.]
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Date: 2007-05-16 01:48 pm (UTC)Heroes - my favourite tv series at the moment (not shown on Finnish tv, though - thank goodness for the internet *g*).
it'll take me a REALLY long time to read. But on the other hand, if you're posting books to me anyway, and won't need it for a bit...
It doesn't matter if it takes a long time to read. :-) There's no one else waiting to read it, so the book would just sit on my bookshelf anyway.
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Date: 2007-05-18 10:58 am (UTC)"Riding a bicycle was not the only thing that Mark was interested in learning. He drank up new experiences like a thirsty weed. He was intoxicated by the Melendys' books, and sat hour after hour on the floor of the Office, surrounded with crooked columns of books that he had taken from the cases. Bowed over a volume, cheek in his hand, there was no sound from him except the frequent dry turning of a page.
"'This is a swell one. This is a good story,' he'd say, lifting his head at last, and looking at the others with eyes still glazed by distance, still focused on the landscape of another world. 'This boy, Tom Sawyer, he gets lost in a cave-'
"Tom Sawyer, Robin Hood, Mowgli, Riki-Tiki-Tavi, Uncas, Long John Silver, all of them were new to him. Even the girl's books interested him: Eight Cousins, and Castle Blair, and Sara Crewe, even the old outgrown fairy tales with their coloured pictures: Water Babies, Hans Andersen, The Land of Oz, the hundreds of satisfactory legends concerning the simple lad who wins the princess; the thoroughly punished stepmother who dances in red-hot shoes, the witches, and godmothers, and emperors, and ogres." (1982 Puffin ed, pp 124-5)
Also Mona is always quoting yards of poetry; I think Shakespeare may be the only one who gets namechecked.