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Owl Travel Reading; Small Lion
Nov. 2nd, 2008 08:05 pmWesley the Owl, by Stacey O'Brien
I really only picked this up to cleanse my palate a bit and avoid burning out on travel writing, but wow! It is extremely nifty. Engaging and full of sharp observations and wry, but juuuuuust gooshy enough to push my awwww buttons. It probably helped a lot that the author had a lot of biology training, and that she was still unafraid to admit to her less rational perceptions. I cried at the (not unexpected) conclusion.
(219/300)
The Best American Travel Writing 2008, edited by Jason Wilson and Anthony Bourdain
A lot of food and war related stuff, not as much of what I would actually consider *travel* writing. Still, it was good. Very Anthony-Bourdainy. And some of the pieces hit "good" and kept right on going to "superb".
(220/300)
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008, edited by Dave Eggers & students of 826 Valencia, introductory interview with Judy Blume
I'm not sure every last thing they throw in here qualifies as the 'best' of anything, but I will say that this collection as a whole is always "Most Funnest Collection 200x". I always go in all skeptical and Dave-Eggers-you-can't-wow-me and then I always end up all warm and fuzzy and thinking the whole thing was AWESOME. Also, I think this collection has wreaked changes on the attitude &/or choice of selectors of the other Best American series, at least the ones I read... shaken everything else up a bit, over the last few years, and made everybody more edgy.
(221/300)
Small Favor, by Jim Butcher
Good addition to one of my favorite series... Though it's been so long since I read the last one that I found myself scrambling to remember some majorly important plot points... still, I enjoyed it. Might be time for a reread of all the books though. I really wish I could get hold of the audio versions from a library.
ETA: eeeeeee! since I last checked, when I couldn't even ILL them, my HOME LIBRARY has acquired several of these. Woot!! *places hold*
(222/300)
A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire
Now this was the sequel to Wicked that I wanted from Son of a Witch and didn't get. Purrrr. I gobbled it up almost without putting it down.
(223/300)
I really only picked this up to cleanse my palate a bit and avoid burning out on travel writing, but wow! It is extremely nifty. Engaging and full of sharp observations and wry, but juuuuuust gooshy enough to push my awwww buttons. It probably helped a lot that the author had a lot of biology training, and that she was still unafraid to admit to her less rational perceptions. I cried at the (not unexpected) conclusion.
(219/300)
The Best American Travel Writing 2008, edited by Jason Wilson and Anthony Bourdain
A lot of food and war related stuff, not as much of what I would actually consider *travel* writing. Still, it was good. Very Anthony-Bourdainy. And some of the pieces hit "good" and kept right on going to "superb".
(220/300)
The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008, edited by Dave Eggers & students of 826 Valencia, introductory interview with Judy Blume
I'm not sure every last thing they throw in here qualifies as the 'best' of anything, but I will say that this collection as a whole is always "Most Funnest Collection 200x". I always go in all skeptical and Dave-Eggers-you-can't-wow-me and then I always end up all warm and fuzzy and thinking the whole thing was AWESOME. Also, I think this collection has wreaked changes on the attitude &/or choice of selectors of the other Best American series, at least the ones I read... shaken everything else up a bit, over the last few years, and made everybody more edgy.
(221/300)
Small Favor, by Jim Butcher
Good addition to one of my favorite series... Though it's been so long since I read the last one that I found myself scrambling to remember some majorly important plot points... still, I enjoyed it. Might be time for a reread of all the books though. I really wish I could get hold of the audio versions from a library.
ETA: eeeeeee! since I last checked, when I couldn't even ILL them, my HOME LIBRARY has acquired several of these. Woot!! *places hold*
(222/300)
A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire
Now this was the sequel to Wicked that I wanted from Son of a Witch and didn't get. Purrrr. I gobbled it up almost without putting it down.
(223/300)
