book roundup

[derien]

I just looked back at my last books post and realized I never mentioned one of the books I enjoyed the most while we were at Salisbury Beach - I was steeping myself in pirates and sea stories that week, with Fluke and Post Captain:

31) "Captain Blood," Rafael Sabatini - Great stuff - swashbuckling adventure. :)

32) "The Graveyard Game," Kage Baker - Could have sworn I wrote something about this, but on looking back it seems I did, just not after I'd finished it and it had a number. Very good, but inconclusive end and now I'm dying for the next book, which I think is not out, yet. Also, there's not much I can say about the whole thing without ruining it for some of you, but I do love Joseph, and, even more, Lewis.

33) "Tears of the Giraffe," Alexander McCall Smith - Um, yeah. More heartwarming stuff about the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I enjoy reading these books, but I do think they seem to infantalize people from Botswana.

34) "The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives," Michael Buckley - Really weird book. Reads like a Disney movie up to a certain point, and then has a twist end, after the younger girl makes herself look like The Tin Woodman, and her sister into Mama Bear, who turns out to be a twelve foot tall grizzly. Yeah, that wouldn't happen in a Disney movie; they'd be something cute. Craptastic editing, as Puck's hair is described as "tussled." It has been fought with? How about "tousled," maybe?

Now I'm reading "Return to Neveryon," Samuel R. Delaney, which just confused me by bringing all the stories together. Delaney books aren't supposed to have any closure or point!

Meanwhile, today I was reading and not sewing the bling on my skirt. Must do! Yesterday's classroom stuff went well, I think, though I was exhausted by the end of the day. Today it's all simulator training, I have half the class, and still have a co-teacher, so it's going to be easy. Aside from the fact that I have to leave now and my stomach is not happy. Owey, in fact. Granola and peaches is probably not the best thing for me to eat for breakfast.

I got email back from my brother, Eightball, re maybe us getting together while I'm going to be in Los Angeles next week. His exact words: "OH HELL YEAH!!!!" :D

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Haha! Tussled! Well, it's not like I've never made such a gaffe, and worser ones too, but it's still fun to point and laugh.

[derien.livejournal.com]

So do I, all over the place (hell, I still catch a new mistake every time I re-read one of my old stories), but they pay editors to catch that sort of thing - or at least they ought to!

[mizzmarvel.livejournal.com]

The Sisters Grimm books are apparently huge right now. I don't know why, as they sound completely wretched.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Marketing and pretty book covers, I think. And the Disneyfication of kids - this is what they've been programmed to like. Possibly the slightly subversive things happening at the end might be a bit of an antidote to some of the Disneyfication, though. I'm not sure I'm entirely against the Sisters Grimm, even though the first one was really not all that well written.