Recent reading
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luzulaAsk the Dust by John Fante
For book-club-at-work. Meeeeh. Apparently this is a classic? It's about a guy who is poor but convinced that he is the next Great American Writer. He has sex with a randomly-appearing woman and writes a book about it. Also there's a girl who he meets because she's a waitress at a bar and he spends the evening negging her about her shoes. Sorry, I'm probably not doing this justice, but it was just not for me.
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
A Tam Lin story set in Elizabethan England. I quite liked this! It has a likeable protagonist and an interesting take on fairies. And no rape (in fact no sex; it's a YA book from 1975). I didn't quite buy the romance. Not that I don't think they'd be good together, but more that the story just felt platonic and gen to me and I didn't actually think there was going to be any love story until bam at the end. Maybe because it's YA from 1975? And at the end, he never actually asks her if she wants to marry him, he just assumes!
It amused me that the cover has leaves of American red oak, rather than European oak.../o\
For book-club-at-work. Meeeeh. Apparently this is a classic? It's about a guy who is poor but convinced that he is the next Great American Writer. He has sex with a randomly-appearing woman and writes a book about it. Also there's a girl who he meets because she's a waitress at a bar and he spends the evening negging her about her shoes. Sorry, I'm probably not doing this justice, but it was just not for me.
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
A Tam Lin story set in Elizabethan England. I quite liked this! It has a likeable protagonist and an interesting take on fairies. And no rape (in fact no sex; it's a YA book from 1975). I didn't quite buy the romance. Not that I don't think they'd be good together, but more that the story just felt platonic and gen to me and I didn't actually think there was going to be any love story until bam at the end. Maybe because it's YA from 1975? And at the end, he never actually asks her if she wants to marry him, he just assumes!
It amused me that the cover has leaves of American red oak, rather than European oak.../o\
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