Books for June, 2004

[pegkerr]

Posession by A.S. Byatt

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler. Enjoyable, but I would have loved to have seen her work in references to Lady Susan, too (or perhaps they were there by I missed them??)

The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. Read this one to the girls.

The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. Heh heh heh heh heh.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

Am working on Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World by Verlyn Flieger, which I am enjoying even more than I thought I would.

Hmm. No re-reads at all this month. Good show, Peg. But not very many books. You're slacking, girl.

Comments

[ceilidh]

The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.

That was one of my favorite books as a kid. I should read it again.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine reading Bridge with anyone else, even my momma. How did your tender-hearted girls take it? It still makes me sob every time.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

They liked it, but I didn't get much comment on it. Right now we're reading Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl.

[kate_nepveu]

What did you think of _Possession_?

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask that, too!

K.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

It brought back severe flashbacks of my years in the English Ph.D. program, but despite that, I enjoyed it very much!

I think I got a lot more out of it, too, because I went to A.S. Byatt's lecture, where she laid it all out for us: "This book is about documents and ghosts, and about the fact that even when you have the documents they won't tell you everything you want to know about the ghosts."

Yeah. Like that.

[charlietudor.livejournal.com]

What did you think of The Eyre Affair? I was intrigued enough by it to acquire Lost in a Good Book but I haven't actually read it yet.

The writing gig really cuts into my reading time....

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I think what delighted me the most about The Eyre Affair was the idea that Richard III would be that culture's Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I'm sure I missed a number of the literary allusions, but it was great fun. I'd certainly recommend it.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

That was one of my favorite bits in that book, too. I must admit I missed out on a lot of the references, but it was still fun. I have read the other two, and am anxiously awaiting Something Rotten... later this year.

Oh, and The Hallowed Hunt?? You are E.V.I.L., woman!