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readerjane) wrote2018-12-28 07:24 pm
readerjane) wrote2018-12-28 07:24 pm
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What I'm Reading... well, this time it's Friday
I love holidays. Especially ones where I have lots and lots of time to read. I finished two whole books this week! Haven't had that kind of reading time in years.
Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich
A friend introduced me to this series after the first eight had been published. I got very, very invested, joined the world of fanfic, created my own wiki, and eagerly awaited the next installment. Eventually I had to accept the fact that this series was stuck on repeat and always would be. Those character arcs don't bend toward nowhere.
So I stopped buying the new volumes and switched to reading them from the library whenever I got around to it... and somehow my expectation level optimized to where I can really enjoy them again. I've heard a rumor that the series is being ghost-written nowadays. If that's true, then the ghost writer is way more attentive to continuity than Evanovich ever was. It's almost like they'd read my wiki. :-D
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Take Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane, dial her back to eighteen, and plunk her down in a Minnesota liberal arts college in the 1970's. Janet is scary smart, not a little snobbish about literary analysis, passionate, rebellious, and single-minded when it comes to intellectual integrity. And she's able to accept inescapable conclusions, no matter how unlikely they may be. I liked this very much.
Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich
A friend introduced me to this series after the first eight had been published. I got very, very invested, joined the world of fanfic, created my own wiki, and eagerly awaited the next installment. Eventually I had to accept the fact that this series was stuck on repeat and always would be. Those character arcs don't bend toward nowhere.
So I stopped buying the new volumes and switched to reading them from the library whenever I got around to it... and somehow my expectation level optimized to where I can really enjoy them again. I've heard a rumor that the series is being ghost-written nowadays. If that's true, then the ghost writer is way more attentive to continuity than Evanovich ever was. It's almost like they'd read my wiki. :-D
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
Take Dorothy Sayers' Harriet Vane, dial her back to eighteen, and plunk her down in a Minnesota liberal arts college in the 1970's. Janet is scary smart, not a little snobbish about literary analysis, passionate, rebellious, and single-minded when it comes to intellectual integrity. And she's able to accept inescapable conclusions, no matter how unlikely they may be. I liked this very much.