Yeah, I have not been good this month with books. I've been insanely busy and can barely stay in one place long enough to read a news article, much less a book.
I reread
True Blood (again) because Ty can't find the rest of the Incarnations of Immortality books he swore were here in the house. He's now looking for them at his mom's. I only have
True Blood, Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein (which is in HC and a huge heavy collector's item I'd kill myself with trying to read in bed),
Stuart Little and Squeaker's
Junie B Jones books.
I will admit that I read
Junie B on the plane last tmonth because I didn't want to watch the stupid twilight movie on the plane and I wasn't sleepy yet.
The only other fiction book I'm remotely interested in here at Ty's in
Da Vinci Code, which I've read 5 times, and it's also in HC. Haven't cracked it yet. I actually can't remember if it's my copy or his. LOL His other books are
Lord of the Rings (Tried, but I can't get through Middle Earth. Just not my thing) and
Warhammer 40K series (really REALLY not my thing; I'm better off struggling through Middle Earth
). So I'm overdue for a trip to the bookstore!
While I was visiting my mom, I went book shopping with my brother (who know has a set of Dresden Books 1-4
for when he's done with his
Dark Tower books) I picked up Gregory Maguire's
Lost.
What an effin weird book. I am not in love with it. I don't think I love it, even. I MIGHT like it, just not sure.
The story is about a girl who is writing a book about a girl that writes books.
The girl may or not be related to the guy who Dickens wrote as Ebeneezer Scrooge. The girl she's writing about is obsessed with finding the ghost of Jack the Ripper. As you go through the story, you may find yourself confused, because while there are some ghostly happenings, you're unsure whether they're related to "Scrooge", her missing cousin John, the neighbors' dead husbands, Jack the Ripper, or any other number of spooky characters that cross this gal's mind. I was confused at first but eventually got into it okay... I'm just not sure what some of these had to do with the story. All these dead folks didn't do a whole lot to drive the story except point out to the reader over and over that the main character has issues, and the more you read, the weirder and bigger the issues get.
I made it through okay but I'm still kinda scratching my head trying to figure out the whole point of the thing. I liked the politics and intrigue of Oz soooo much more. So much, in fact, that I reread the teaser for
Son of a Witch in the back of
Lost and got caught up all over again in the one chapter I had! I'm hoping to get
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tonight to see if it's better than
Lost (I sure hope so) and up to the par of
Wicked.
PS I went back and looked up that italicize/underline/quote thing that I could never keep straight in school....
It is a PITA to go back and change all those titles.
