Recent reading
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luzulaHild by Nicola Griffiths
Oh, what lovely lovely prose! And characterization. And worldbuilding. And nature descriptions. I just wanted to roll around in this book and never wanted it to end. Highly recommended. That said, it's not a quick and easy read--it's a dense book and took me some time to get through, but it was very rewarding. I was so invested in it emotionally, and also it was so interesting and rich. Yes, I think rich is a good word to describe this book. I could write lots more about it, but I have to go to bed now (although do talk to me in comments about it!)
Skogspraktikan - varför vi bör gå över till naturnära skogsbruk by Jentzén, Kullgren, and Hultén [a Swedish book about close-to-nature forestry]
This is a great book, although probably of little interest to the readers of this journal. I'm used to seeing forestry from the environmentalist's POV, and this is from the small forestry owner's POV. The section on economics is particularly interesting to me, because it shows that the small forestry owner doesn't necessarily have the same interests as the forest industry.
Stoner by John Williams
For my book club at work. This was...not bad, I guess, but rather bleak. And I do wish the author hadn't made the main character's wife so very shrewish and unlikeable.
Oh, what lovely lovely prose! And characterization. And worldbuilding. And nature descriptions. I just wanted to roll around in this book and never wanted it to end. Highly recommended. That said, it's not a quick and easy read--it's a dense book and took me some time to get through, but it was very rewarding. I was so invested in it emotionally, and also it was so interesting and rich. Yes, I think rich is a good word to describe this book. I could write lots more about it, but I have to go to bed now (although do talk to me in comments about it!)
Skogspraktikan - varför vi bör gå över till naturnära skogsbruk by Jentzén, Kullgren, and Hultén [a Swedish book about close-to-nature forestry]
This is a great book, although probably of little interest to the readers of this journal. I'm used to seeing forestry from the environmentalist's POV, and this is from the small forestry owner's POV. The section on economics is particularly interesting to me, because it shows that the small forestry owner doesn't necessarily have the same interests as the forest industry.
Stoner by John Williams
For my book club at work. This was...not bad, I guess, but rather bleak. And I do wish the author hadn't made the main character's wife so very shrewish and unlikeable.
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Date: 2015-04-02 03:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-04-02 07:26 pm (UTC)Not really? I guess some bad things happen, but on the whole it's not a dark book at all. It is tense, though.