Sunday, May 28, 2006
Sometimes you just have to start over.
My concentration was shot for several monthes and I could barely read a newspaper or magazine article but I'm back reading books and loving the library.
Recently read:
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney - I like the emotions and personalities of her characters but the situations are often unbelievable. I could believe that a student found old small pox scabs in a research book and I can believe that the student would worry about being infected. I can even believe the general email questioning about the infectiousness of small pox but the kidnapping and Govt. involvement was not something I could believe.
Narcissus in Chains and Obsidian butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton - these are my first forays into Laurell Hamilton's writing. They vary in sexiness with Obsidian butterfly being more about terror and Narcissus in chains more about submission. There is no problem with not buying into the stories since they are obvious fantasy but really Anita Blake is beginning is accumulate an awful lot of different powers and her personal situations are getting more and more complicated.
Looking for Alaska by John Green - this was a fun novel set in a boarding high school in Alabama. Miles Halter has left the safety and boredom of public school to seek the Great Perhaps. What he finds is that friendship is complicated, asking questions brings more questions, and that there is a great labyrinth that each person must identify and maneuver alone and with their friends.
Without a Net by Michelle Tea - This is a collection of writings by women who grew up on the margins of society. There is much to think about and realize. I grew up without money or health insurance but there was some stolidity to our family life that kept us from despair (at least as children).
Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea - Trisha is a teen who lives on the margin. Her father is MIA, her mother is a psychosomatic mess, her stepfather uses the house to store his stolen goods, her older sister is trying to get up out of this life and may have a chance but Trisha feels she has no chance. she drinks her way through each day and despairs her way through an attempt at a retail job. Trisha meets someone who may actually be a friend and they go off on a meth and sex binge where Trisha realizes that not even love is free from lies and let downs.
Recently read:
Code Orange by Caroline Cooney - I like the emotions and personalities of her characters but the situations are often unbelievable. I could believe that a student found old small pox scabs in a research book and I can believe that the student would worry about being infected. I can even believe the general email questioning about the infectiousness of small pox but the kidnapping and Govt. involvement was not something I could believe.
Narcissus in Chains and Obsidian butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton - these are my first forays into Laurell Hamilton's writing. They vary in sexiness with Obsidian butterfly being more about terror and Narcissus in chains more about submission. There is no problem with not buying into the stories since they are obvious fantasy but really Anita Blake is beginning is accumulate an awful lot of different powers and her personal situations are getting more and more complicated.
Looking for Alaska by John Green - this was a fun novel set in a boarding high school in Alabama. Miles Halter has left the safety and boredom of public school to seek the Great Perhaps. What he finds is that friendship is complicated, asking questions brings more questions, and that there is a great labyrinth that each person must identify and maneuver alone and with their friends.
Without a Net by Michelle Tea - This is a collection of writings by women who grew up on the margins of society. There is much to think about and realize. I grew up without money or health insurance but there was some stolidity to our family life that kept us from despair (at least as children).
Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea - Trisha is a teen who lives on the margin. Her father is MIA, her mother is a psychosomatic mess, her stepfather uses the house to store his stolen goods, her older sister is trying to get up out of this life and may have a chance but Trisha feels she has no chance. she drinks her way through each day and despairs her way through an attempt at a retail job. Trisha meets someone who may actually be a friend and they go off on a meth and sex binge where Trisha realizes that not even love is free from lies and let downs.
# posted by JJ @ 10:49 AM 
