What I'm reading...
Apr. 19th, 2019 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjane...early Friday edition.
This week the menfolk and I finished Boneland, by Alan Garner.
It was a strange and unsatisfying story. Published in 2012, and so very different from the first two books from 1960 and 1963. Those two were children's fantasy: Boneyard is a grownup book where the main character is mentally ill. Whether the things he hears and sees are continuations of the magic events he experienced as a child, or hallucinations, is unclear. He does suffer from depression and anxiety, is obsessive, and very isolated.
I've only read small excerpts of Ulysses and The Sound and the Fury, but the disorienting nature of Boneland made me think of those. Not only was the narrative confusing, but sometimes I couldn't tell who was speaking from one line of dialog to another. Son believes that some of the lines I attributed to Colin were actually spoken by an invisible character.
Anyway, it's done now. We're going to finish out the Temeraire series next, and then figure out what to read aloud after that.
This week the menfolk and I finished Boneland, by Alan Garner.
It was a strange and unsatisfying story. Published in 2012, and so very different from the first two books from 1960 and 1963. Those two were children's fantasy: Boneyard is a grownup book where the main character is mentally ill. Whether the things he hears and sees are continuations of the magic events he experienced as a child, or hallucinations, is unclear. He does suffer from depression and anxiety, is obsessive, and very isolated.
I've only read small excerpts of Ulysses and The Sound and the Fury, but the disorienting nature of Boneland made me think of those. Not only was the narrative confusing, but sometimes I couldn't tell who was speaking from one line of dialog to another. Son believes that some of the lines I attributed to Colin were actually spoken by an invisible character.
Anyway, it's done now. We're going to finish out the Temeraire series next, and then figure out what to read aloud after that.
