Yippee, I bought some books today! After finishing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince I decided I needed some more light reading and I can only reread Neil Gaiman’s Stardust so many times. So today I bought Eragon by Christopher Paolini which I believe was recently made into a (terrible, I hear) film, and The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier which I’ve already started. Read the first chapter and so far not overly impressed but maybe my expectations are high because i. it’s set in medieval times and ii. I was highly impressed by her previous novel (as was a whole bunch of women, sigh) Girl With A Pearl Earring (no, not a pearl necklace as my ex thought…!). I expected to be reeled in after at least one chapter…we’ll see how it goes though.
Still slowly plodding through Yeats poetry, up to the Irish narrative verse section which I admit isn’t quite as enthralling as it should be…and I’m going to desperately try to read at least one chapter everyday of Vanity Fair or I might forget about it. At the moment I’m up to the part where the main male characters who are all pretty much soldiers have been called off to fight in Brussels
Violent_Kitten | 21-Jul-07 at 5:51 pm | Permalink
Eragon sounds good, shame about the movie, hate it when they mess it up! I’m still reading City of Dreaming Books. I’ve picked it up again now I’m back, as it was too heavy to take away withe me!
Grace Notes @ Snarkattack | 23-Jul-07 at 10:16 pm | Permalink
Who is City of Dreaming Books by dear? So far Eragon is okay, but a bit slow. Not to mention, I’m reading the 7th Harry Potter so am preoccupied
Violent_Kitten | 25-Jul-07 at 12:45 am | Permalink
It’s by Walter Moers, a German dude I think, who wrote “The 13.5 lives of Captain Bluebear” which I had not previously heard of or read, but I am really enjoying City of Dreaming Books, it’s where books can be dangerous and kill and there’s monsters and huge underground caves and cities, it has pictures too, kind of a young adult/adult, I’m not sure how to describe it!
Grace Notes @ Snarkattack | 29-Jul-07 at 7:26 pm | Permalink
Aha, thanks for the author, must remember to look that one up. I’m still reading Eragon but finished Harry Potter. Can’t believe it’s all over!