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Jun. 21st, 2013 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
issenlloNot 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... it's fairly obvious that Georgiana will end up with Edward, the man she's been in love with since she was a kid, or something. (Ok, first, the problem with being in love with someone since you were a kid. I hate this trope. What's wrong with being friends since you were kids and then fall in love later when both of you discover that you're adults now?) The other thing that nags at me is how Georgiana writes - it's in the form of a diary - that one of her suitors is a wealthy heir and very, very handsome, and also apparently a decent sort of person. At least, he looks to remain so; I'm about 70% through with the book. Yet she's fixated on Edward. A very nice person, yes. But why can't she fall in love with someone who has not been part of her family circle since she was in the nursery? It's like being cocooned.
Ok, I realise this says more about me than her; that I think it's more interesting to leave familiar, safe ground. Anyway, the tale is getting predictable - but it was predictable from the start. Maybe I should search out more fic.
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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... it's fairly obvious that Georgiana will end up with Edward, the man she's been in love with since she was a kid, or something. (Ok, first, the problem with being in love with someone since you were a kid. I hate this trope. What's wrong with being friends since you were kids and then fall in love later when both of you discover that you're adults now?) The other thing that nags at me is how Georgiana writes - it's in the form of a diary - that one of her suitors is a wealthy heir and very, very handsome, and also apparently a decent sort of person. At least, he looks to remain so; I'm about 70% through with the book. Yet she's fixated on Edward. A very nice person, yes. But why can't she fall in love with someone who has not been part of her family circle since she was in the nursery? It's like being cocooned.
Ok, I realise this says more about me than her; that I think it's more interesting to leave familiar, safe ground. Anyway, the tale is getting predictable - but it was predictable from the start. Maybe I should search out more fic.