Monday, August 26, 2013

Summer Reading List

Decided I am becoming a fan of Cormac McCarthy--I'd written about The Road previously, but just read Blood Meridian, against my son-in-laws recommendations--of NOT reading it! It was just too gruesome/depressing for him to continue. It was that, but the writing is so interesting and compelling and with over 100 new/unknown words that tickled my brain, plus--now that I know he's compared to Faulkner, well it kept me going.
...and now i have a list to look up from All the Pretty Horses, too!


*****   Blood Meridian                                disturbingly awesome LOVE THE WORD CHOICES!
*****   All the Pretty Horses                     again, lovely eerie word choices, interesting
*****   Fall on Your Knees                          horribly sad, can’t put it down
*----       Wife 22                                                                guessed ending right away, modern
***--     NOS4A2                                               bizarre, should be a movie, 680pgs!
***--     The Night Circus                               calmly magical, better for high school girl
****-    Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness                 I want to write this.
*----       The Odd Sea                                      Fairly boring      
***--     Shift Omnibus (next series of Wool)       Wool was better; wanted to find out more.
*****   Love in the Time of Cholera        Lovely descriptions
***--     Elizabeth Street                               average
***--     The Wordy Shipmates (1/2)        quite funny; anti-religion/anti-republican
**---      Trash                                                     terrible abuse + um, ick
****-    The Orchardist                                  just nice; keeps you reading
***--     The Little Russian Servant                           short story
**___   War Brides                         news reporter parts=juvenile writing, but enjoyed the girls
*****   All the Pretty Horses                     again, lovely eerie word choices, interesting
****-    The Misremembered Man                          nice, needed more ‘irish’ detail
****-    Tess of the D’Ubervilles                               had forgotten the ending
*----       The Chimney Sweeper’s Son                      not finished yet               
              Childhood's End                                           just started    Sci-Fi
Kim                                                        still reading…