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Jun. 21st, 2013 12:04 amNot reading new fics; am just following WIPs for now. Nature and Nurture just updated!
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Books:
Started reading the Harry Potter books (for the first time in years) and just finished the Chamber of Secrets.
Also halfway through Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. People kept reccing Bring Up the Bodies so I thought, I should read the first book of the series, right? And Kinokuniya had a sale.
Did not expect present tense narrative. Not my fondest mode: here it treads a line between being invisible and immediacy, occasionally distracting. I'm not sure if I enjoy all the moments of internal fancies that the narrator aka Cromwell himself has - I'm not used to it, probably because I don't expect it in historical fiction. Also I see that I must get up to speed on that part of history again, after having forgotten most of it. I wonder what history looks like to a bystander and not a doer.
Also found Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich in the library. Yay!
And someone in my f-list recced Georgiana Darcy's Diary by Anne Elliott, fanfic of Pride and Prejudice. Kindle version was free at Amazon. Nice enough to read on the way to work, but... ( spoilers? )
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Books:
Started reading the Harry Potter books (for the first time in years) and just finished the Chamber of Secrets.
Also halfway through Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. People kept reccing Bring Up the Bodies so I thought, I should read the first book of the series, right? And Kinokuniya had a sale.
Did not expect present tense narrative. Not my fondest mode: here it treads a line between being invisible and immediacy, occasionally distracting. I'm not sure if I enjoy all the moments of internal fancies that the narrator aka Cromwell himself has - I'm not used to it, probably because I don't expect it in historical fiction. Also I see that I must get up to speed on that part of history again, after having forgotten most of it. I wonder what history looks like to a bystander and not a doer.
Also found Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich in the library. Yay!
And someone in my f-list recced Georgiana Darcy's Diary by Anne Elliott, fanfic of Pride and Prejudice. Kindle version was free at Amazon. Nice enough to read on the way to work, but... ( spoilers? )