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The Growing Tower
8/10/10 02:51I am reading too many things at once! I know lots of bloggers are multiple bookers, but I try to read only one book at a time, since the time in my teenage years where I just wasn’t finishing any books. Right now I have bookmarks in four books, which is leaving me feeling a little unbalanced – I’m an obsessive completist ok, I have an issue. I could really use the 24 hour readathon to make some progress, but I’ll be at a wedding on Saturday so I’ll just have to see what progress can be made on Sunday:
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth: I am reading this along with Bonjour Cass, as we seek to conquer Mt Remember That Guy Before Franzen (it’s not a very well named mountain is it). There is quite a bit of stamp collecting in this book, mixed in with the bits I am interested in. I heard Stephen Fry (on the Rob Brydon show – how nice that they are celebrity friends) say he is really interested in everything, except celebrities from reality tv shows. I am interested in some very odd things, but it turns out stamp collecting is not one of them. Even farm management is more interesting – which leads me to...
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy: I need to put this book in a more visible place. It’s sitting on top of a stack on the landing, but I seem to have stopped associating this pile with interesting things to read. I am really enjoying it, but I find it easy to forget just how pleasant it is to spend time with it once I’ve put it down. Instead I keep remembering it’s by the formidable Tolstoy who had a large beard that makes him look like Dumbledore’s evil twin. The next time I go back to it I’ll be reading Part Six, way past the farm management theory (which was kind of fascinating) and still hating Mr Karenina (booo).
Dark Echo – F G Cotham: My third book for the RIP V challenge and a TBR challenge book. This book is sometimes truly gruesome and so I can’t read it after dark, or while eating my lunch just in case. That means there is just one hour of my day when I can read this book. Curse you, fear of murderous ghosts. I feel like the author read a lot of Stephen King (detailed character relationships that keep you from realising just how the horror is building up, until BAM) and then brought his own background into the mix to produce something that is cool, if sometimes slightly annoying. There is not just a cursed boat, there is also a very creepy barn and what looks like some pretty complex background plotting that I’m hoping will tie up nicely, instead of making me confused. This many priests and failed priests do not congregate in a horror novel by coincidence.
City of Ghosts – Bali Rai: There is a supernatural element to this young adult historical novel set in India. I am almost sure of it, now that I’ve read 50 pages. This is my lunch time book now that Dark Echo has revealed its horrible boat related injuries. Right now it’s a story about love, secrets, dreams and flawed parents.
I hope anyone taking part in readathon has a fab time. If you’ve got time for a question before you get preparing I’d love to know what areas of interest that aren’t very mainstream fail to encourage your surprised fascination (stamp collecting for me, maybe railways for you?).
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth: I am reading this along with Bonjour Cass, as we seek to conquer Mt Remember That Guy Before Franzen (it’s not a very well named mountain is it). There is quite a bit of stamp collecting in this book, mixed in with the bits I am interested in. I heard Stephen Fry (on the Rob Brydon show – how nice that they are celebrity friends) say he is really interested in everything, except celebrities from reality tv shows. I am interested in some very odd things, but it turns out stamp collecting is not one of them. Even farm management is more interesting – which leads me to...
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy: I need to put this book in a more visible place. It’s sitting on top of a stack on the landing, but I seem to have stopped associating this pile with interesting things to read. I am really enjoying it, but I find it easy to forget just how pleasant it is to spend time with it once I’ve put it down. Instead I keep remembering it’s by the formidable Tolstoy who had a large beard that makes him look like Dumbledore’s evil twin. The next time I go back to it I’ll be reading Part Six, way past the farm management theory (which was kind of fascinating) and still hating Mr Karenina (booo).
Dark Echo – F G Cotham: My third book for the RIP V challenge and a TBR challenge book. This book is sometimes truly gruesome and so I can’t read it after dark, or while eating my lunch just in case. That means there is just one hour of my day when I can read this book. Curse you, fear of murderous ghosts. I feel like the author read a lot of Stephen King (detailed character relationships that keep you from realising just how the horror is building up, until BAM) and then brought his own background into the mix to produce something that is cool, if sometimes slightly annoying. There is not just a cursed boat, there is also a very creepy barn and what looks like some pretty complex background plotting that I’m hoping will tie up nicely, instead of making me confused. This many priests and failed priests do not congregate in a horror novel by coincidence.
City of Ghosts – Bali Rai: There is a supernatural element to this young adult historical novel set in India. I am almost sure of it, now that I’ve read 50 pages. This is my lunch time book now that Dark Echo has revealed its horrible boat related injuries. Right now it’s a story about love, secrets, dreams and flawed parents.
I hope anyone taking part in readathon has a fab time. If you’ve got time for a question before you get preparing I’d love to know what areas of interest that aren’t very mainstream fail to encourage your surprised fascination (stamp collecting for me, maybe railways for you?).
