Fox Remains of Wolves; Magical Day in Dragonhaven; Razor's Trap

[maribou]

The Fox, by Sherwood Smith
Absolutely engrossing, even better than the first one. I was a bit miffed at the abruptness/non-endedness of the ending but was accepting enough - until I found out there's actually to be a third one! YAY! So that's fine then.
(224/250)

Fables 8: Wolves, by Bill Willingham et al
Once a month, I go to the comic book store, buy a volume of Fables, read it, gush over it, and eagerly look forward to next month. It just keeps getting better and better. What a fun ritual! It was nice getting back to some life-story and not just adversary-adversary all the time.
(225/250)

The Remains of an Altar, by Phil Rickman
Rickman continues to reliably mix plot, spooky frissons, and interesting history. This one has more with the interesting history (Elgar!) and less with the frissons; s'all good.
(226/250)

A Day in Boyland, by Jessy Randall
I am very picky about my poets, and it's very rare that I love a modern poet's work as a whole, and not just one or two poems. I highly recommend this collection.
(227/250)

Dragonhaven, by Robin McKinley
Fun and charming story set in a world much like our own, except dragons, griffins, and the like are real. Definitely a kid's book, and not my favorite of hers, but still delightful.
(228/250)

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, by Ann Marie Fleming
Neat non-fiction comic book about a turn-of-the-last-century magician and his great-granddaughter's quest to find out about his life. Fascinating, especially the old photographs.
(229/250)

The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
Absorbing novel about a bunch of people making their way through the first third of the 20th century. I especially loved the wryness of the narrative voice, but really there wasn't anything I didn't like about this book. More Maugham is definitely in order. Maybe if I read enough of him, I can keep putting off reading Fitzgerald. Heh.
(230/250)

The Catch Trap, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A circus novel. A 'gay in the 30s-50s novel'. A family epic. A melodrama. Whatever, I could NOT put this book about the Flying Santellis down and although it's not much like any other Zimmer Bradley novel I ever read, it was GREAT. Sturm & drang with some depth to it, and lots of fascinating stuff about being a trapeze artist which feels like she researched the hell out of it for pure love.
(231/250)

Comments

[garretfw.livejournal.com]

When do you sleep?

(this is her little sister)

[evrythgcnhapn.livejournal.com]

lol, no no, she reads in her sleep! it's a magical trait that varies in strength in our family, but the power is stongest in this one:P

Re: (this is her little sister)

[maribou]

Woman! SHHHH!!!! Besides, if you're going to be reading ljs, I demand that you post an update to your own.

[raisinbottom.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised the list is so short but I do understand her circumstances.

[maribou]

Silly.

[maribou]

The secret is a) to abjure driving and b) to be able to safely walk and read at the same time. Most of my reading takes place afoot.

Of course, I also sort laundry while reading, do dishes while reading, eat dinner while reading, and oh yeah, I never go anywhere without a just-in-case book.

Plus I've gone from a retail job where I was doing the work of two people well to a library job where I'm doing the work of one person well while having more-suitable-to-me hours and more time at lunch.

Though I will concede that for a variety of reasons I've only been getting about 7 hours of sleep a night for the last couple of weeks instead of my usual 9:).

Catch Trap - yay!

[(Anonymous)]

Eeeee - I'm so glad you liked The Catch Trap. I couldn't imagine *not* liking something by Zimmer Bradley, and this one really was quite amazing. I want to be a Flyer - and I'm not fond of heights! The amount of trust involved - omg - makes the development of the relationship make sense to me.
Thanks for reading it :) hugs, Melissa