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Guiding Mean Silent Kitteridge to Fury
May. 10th, 2009 12:54 pmGuiding the Reader to the Next Book, edited by Kenneth Shearer
This was cited so much in other books I read that I thought it would be really great reading. Sadly I felt pretty meh about most of it ... I think the other books I read were kind of the nextgen approach and so this one felt out of date. There were a few really wonderful articles though, like the one about an individual reader's reading history, that made slogging through the rest of it worthwhile.
(90/275)
Princeps' Fury, by Jim Butcher
Very much enjoyed this installment, particularly the bits with Ehren and Isana in. I admit I'm probably ready for the series to END, so it's feeling a bit dragged-out ... but still, if they stay this good, I'll happily keep reading them. I could see there being just one more.
(91/275)
Mean Streets, by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Thomas E. Sniegoski
The Jim Butcher story I read this for was a bit ham-handed and preachy, though still entertaining. The other two were alright. The Sniegoski story REALLY got to me, despite my initial dubiousness about the premise/protagonist; I loved it and will be reading the novel set in the same world pronto.
(92/275)
Things I've Been Silent About, by Azar Nafisi
While I didn't love this quite as much as I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran, it was still really really good. And for those who found Reading Lolita too full of litcrit, this one is much more about real people, real times, real places, without as many authorial digressions into the intellectual. (I'm a big fan of authorial digressions in non-fiction, hence my preference for the first book.)
(93/275)
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
So I mostly read this book because I have yet to be less than pleased by reading a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I was already interested in this particular one anyway. I was, in fact, pleased by it. I still trust the Pulitzer committee, and it's a really good book. And I like reading things set in Maine because they're close enough to being set in the Maritimes to push my "comfort reading" buttons. I'm glad I read it. But it's really not my usual cup of tea, which I think is why I wasn't all THAT pleased. On some level I felt like I was reading Stephen King without all the nifty world-building & scary bits. It's a very well-told set of stories that just don't end up being about stuff I'm all that interested in... and don't transcend themselves enough to make me fall in love anyway. Solid, not breath-taking.
(94/275)
This was cited so much in other books I read that I thought it would be really great reading. Sadly I felt pretty meh about most of it ... I think the other books I read were kind of the nextgen approach and so this one felt out of date. There were a few really wonderful articles though, like the one about an individual reader's reading history, that made slogging through the rest of it worthwhile.
(90/275)
Princeps' Fury, by Jim Butcher
Very much enjoyed this installment, particularly the bits with Ehren and Isana in. I admit I'm probably ready for the series to END, so it's feeling a bit dragged-out ... but still, if they stay this good, I'll happily keep reading them. I could see there being just one more.
(91/275)
Mean Streets, by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Thomas E. Sniegoski
The Jim Butcher story I read this for was a bit ham-handed and preachy, though still entertaining. The other two were alright. The Sniegoski story REALLY got to me, despite my initial dubiousness about the premise/protagonist; I loved it and will be reading the novel set in the same world pronto.
(92/275)
Things I've Been Silent About, by Azar Nafisi
While I didn't love this quite as much as I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran, it was still really really good. And for those who found Reading Lolita too full of litcrit, this one is much more about real people, real times, real places, without as many authorial digressions into the intellectual. (I'm a big fan of authorial digressions in non-fiction, hence my preference for the first book.)
(93/275)
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
So I mostly read this book because I have yet to be less than pleased by reading a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I was already interested in this particular one anyway. I was, in fact, pleased by it. I still trust the Pulitzer committee, and it's a really good book. And I like reading things set in Maine because they're close enough to being set in the Maritimes to push my "comfort reading" buttons. I'm glad I read it. But it's really not my usual cup of tea, which I think is why I wasn't all THAT pleased. On some level I felt like I was reading Stephen King without all the nifty world-building & scary bits. It's a very well-told set of stories that just don't end up being about stuff I'm all that interested in... and don't transcend themselves enough to make me fall in love anyway. Solid, not breath-taking.
(94/275)
