Wanted: A Wedding Ring
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todayiamadaisyI forgot to do this yesterday:
August books read
* The Quiet American - Graham Greene (1955)
Cheap paperbacks of classic novels are ideal for travelling, I find. All that time waiting forces me to read them. I read The Quiet American at Melbourne and Canberra airports. I shouldn't have waited until I forced myself to read it, because it's really good. I suspect more thorough book reviews than this use the word 'prescient'.
When I came home, my mother picked me up from the train station and saw my copy sticking out of my bag. 'I saw the film of that a few years ago,' she said. 'Michael Caine played the English writer and George of the Jungle out of The Mummy was the American.' She is a master of multi-textual film criticism.
* The Eye of Zoltar - Jasper Fforde (2014)
This is the third book in Fforde's Last Dragonslayer series. I don't have a lot to say about it, other than I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to the fourth (and apparently final) volume in the series. If wizards messing around in an alternative Britain is your sort of thing, this could be the book for you! (As long as you've read the previous two.)
I've still not finished that book I started at the end of July, in which a man decapitated his wife as an act of mercy on the second page. On the next page, he decapitated his two children, then drank some sort of poison that burnt his insides and frothed out his mouth. Five pages in, there are no characters left. It's going well so far.
August books read
* The Quiet American - Graham Greene (1955)
Cheap paperbacks of classic novels are ideal for travelling, I find. All that time waiting forces me to read them. I read The Quiet American at Melbourne and Canberra airports. I shouldn't have waited until I forced myself to read it, because it's really good. I suspect more thorough book reviews than this use the word 'prescient'.
When I came home, my mother picked me up from the train station and saw my copy sticking out of my bag. 'I saw the film of that a few years ago,' she said. 'Michael Caine played the English writer and George of the Jungle out of The Mummy was the American.' She is a master of multi-textual film criticism.
* The Eye of Zoltar - Jasper Fforde (2014)
This is the third book in Fforde's Last Dragonslayer series. I don't have a lot to say about it, other than I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to the fourth (and apparently final) volume in the series. If wizards messing around in an alternative Britain is your sort of thing, this could be the book for you! (As long as you've read the previous two.)
I've still not finished that book I started at the end of July, in which a man decapitated his wife as an act of mercy on the second page. On the next page, he decapitated his two children, then drank some sort of poison that burnt his insides and frothed out his mouth. Five pages in, there are no characters left. It's going well so far.