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Books: An Update
Feb. 16th, 2013 08:44 pmA few more books read of late:
Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: ( A difficult book to form an opinion of )
Baroness Orkzy, The Scarlet Pimpernel: This was fun! Classist as all get-out and radiating English smugness. But Marguerite was pretty damn fabulous, which makes up for many things.
Raymond Carver, So Much Water So Close To Home (short story): Quite an unsettling story. I liked the way the 'so much water, so close to home' refrain seemed to operate both as a protest - why go so far? why get entangled with (commit?) such things - and a warning. There's water close to home, too. It could've been you.
John Tranter (ed), Best Australian Poems 2012: A fascinating collection. Selections already posted here on the /poetry tag.
I've skipped over a few Robin Hobb books in my "read" shelf - I'm reading the Rain Wild Chronicles at the moment, and will review once I'm through all four of them.
Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox: ( A difficult book to form an opinion of )
Baroness Orkzy, The Scarlet Pimpernel: This was fun! Classist as all get-out and radiating English smugness. But Marguerite was pretty damn fabulous, which makes up for many things.
Raymond Carver, So Much Water So Close To Home (short story): Quite an unsettling story. I liked the way the 'so much water, so close to home' refrain seemed to operate both as a protest - why go so far? why get entangled with (commit?) such things - and a warning. There's water close to home, too. It could've been you.
John Tranter (ed), Best Australian Poems 2012: A fascinating collection. Selections already posted here on the /poetry tag.
I've skipped over a few Robin Hobb books in my "read" shelf - I'm reading the Rain Wild Chronicles at the moment, and will review once I'm through all four of them.