Reading Thursday
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yuuagoLate for Reading Wednesday, but anyway. :V
Recently Finished: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I'm glad that I didn't pay for this one (picked it up from a little library exchange). I hated it. The summary made it seem like it would be my thing! I have no idea how you can make a murder and a trial boring, but Dostoevsky managed to do it. Tik, after hearing me grouse about how I disliked it, asked why I was determined to finish it; the only excuse I have is that I was hoping it would eventually get better. ;V It never did.
Also Recently Finished: The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz. Another installment in the Millennium series. These books are Not Good, but they're my specific flavour of Not Good. I inhaled this as if it was a bag of Doritos. Though, I have no memory of what happened in The Girl in the Spider's Web, so a lot of the references to previous installment in this one left me going "???". ...Aaanyway. I must admit, though I enjoyed it for the Dorito-ness, I found myself feeling it lacked something. Salander doesn't feel very Salander in this novel. She's still badass, but she's also too... normal? Functional? One could put it up to character development, but I didn't find it convincing. Maybe I should re-read Spider's Web and see if Lagercrantz's interpretation of her is similar there - it could just be a difference in the way he handles her character vs Stieg Larsson's original version of her.
Currently Reading: The Haunting of Vancouver Island by Shanon Sinn. Short accounts of ghost stories! With references to the historical record as much as applicable. Yeah, yeah, it's tourist schlock, but well - 'tis the season for ghost stories. I picked this up a few days after Tik and I went on our ghost walk, and though I'm not deep into it yet, so far it's pretty fun.
Reading Next: I picked up the following while in Victoria -
- Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies: 49 Poems & 18 Photographs by Jan Zwicky & Robert V. Moody. I love Zwicky's work, so I was pretty excited to find that she put out something new last year.
- Hundre år by Herbjørg Wassmo. ...A novel in Norwegian?! Yes, I'm going to try to read it! A big step - I've never read anything more complex than newspaper/Wikipedia articles before - but I'm pretty jazzed about it. This one is a dramatic historical novel following the lives of several women over the course of a century. Seems like my kind of thing.
Aside from those, I've been wanting to read The Master and the Margarita, since Tik recommended it to me (suggesting I might like it better than the Karamazov Brothers, hah). That makes him the second person (whose tastes I consider worth listening to) who's suggested it to me, so there it is. I'll have to interlibrary it, tho', since our library doesn't have it in print.
...Also want to read Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing, since one of my tumblr mutuals is into it, but that's another one for the interlibrary loan list. :Va
Aaand lastly, I just found out about Stephen King's Holly! Definitely want to read that one. But since it just came out, it's holds all the way down as far as the library goes. Maybe I should read a different King novel while I wait. :V
Recently Finished: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I'm glad that I didn't pay for this one (picked it up from a little library exchange). I hated it. The summary made it seem like it would be my thing! I have no idea how you can make a murder and a trial boring, but Dostoevsky managed to do it. Tik, after hearing me grouse about how I disliked it, asked why I was determined to finish it; the only excuse I have is that I was hoping it would eventually get better. ;V It never did.
Also Recently Finished: The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz. Another installment in the Millennium series. These books are Not Good, but they're my specific flavour of Not Good. I inhaled this as if it was a bag of Doritos. Though, I have no memory of what happened in The Girl in the Spider's Web, so a lot of the references to previous installment in this one left me going "???". ...Aaanyway. I must admit, though I enjoyed it for the Dorito-ness, I found myself feeling it lacked something. Salander doesn't feel very Salander in this novel. She's still badass, but she's also too... normal? Functional? One could put it up to character development, but I didn't find it convincing. Maybe I should re-read Spider's Web and see if Lagercrantz's interpretation of her is similar there - it could just be a difference in the way he handles her character vs Stieg Larsson's original version of her.
Currently Reading: The Haunting of Vancouver Island by Shanon Sinn. Short accounts of ghost stories! With references to the historical record as much as applicable. Yeah, yeah, it's tourist schlock, but well - 'tis the season for ghost stories. I picked this up a few days after Tik and I went on our ghost walk, and though I'm not deep into it yet, so far it's pretty fun.
Reading Next: I picked up the following while in Victoria -
- Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies: 49 Poems & 18 Photographs by Jan Zwicky & Robert V. Moody. I love Zwicky's work, so I was pretty excited to find that she put out something new last year.
- Hundre år by Herbjørg Wassmo. ...A novel in Norwegian?! Yes, I'm going to try to read it! A big step - I've never read anything more complex than newspaper/Wikipedia articles before - but I'm pretty jazzed about it. This one is a dramatic historical novel following the lives of several women over the course of a century. Seems like my kind of thing.
Aside from those, I've been wanting to read The Master and the Margarita, since Tik recommended it to me (suggesting I might like it better than the Karamazov Brothers, hah). That makes him the second person (whose tastes I consider worth listening to) who's suggested it to me, so there it is. I'll have to interlibrary it, tho', since our library doesn't have it in print.
...Also want to read Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official's Blessing, since one of my tumblr mutuals is into it, but that's another one for the interlibrary loan list. :Va
Aaand lastly, I just found out about Stephen King's Holly! Definitely want to read that one. But since it just came out, it's holds all the way down as far as the library goes. Maybe I should read a different King novel while I wait. :V
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