Reading
So anyway I just finished reading a couple books by Jane Lindskold. They were the latest two books in her series about a girl raised by wolves who has returned to live with the humans. It's not so much as a modern Jungle Book as it is set in a fantastic world of swords and magic. You might say that it is inspired by The Jungle Book, but definitely has its own flavor. The books are big 700 page epics so you get your monies worth, what with the price of books today. I remember walking into the book store at Ford City and being able to buy at least four paper back novels for twenty bucks. You can still get that many if you go to a used book store or buy em in bulk on Ebay. Fifteen pounds of books please. That will be five cents plus a hondo for shipping and handling.
So now I'm reading a P. D. James novel recommended to me by the old man. Normally I'm not into the mystery, who done it stuff. My escapism wants magic or space opera type stuff. You know Dune, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons related books. That is the sort of fluff I live for. I read a lot of literature too but that's more like work, like staying in practice if I should ever contemplate going back to school. Anyways this P.D. James book is one about her character Adam Dagleish so it is loosely related to a number of other novels that she has written in that they share many of the same characters. (Protagonists only. No return of Dr. Moriarty here.) Her books are usually a good read and there are no graphic descriptions of murder. Maybe a bit about the crime scene but I'm not going to wake up late at night crying for my momma afraid that the Evil Killers are on the loose in my dreams. A couple things draw me in. First it's British. Just the way the speak and write is either musical or humorous to my ear. I love the sound of the language when it comes from a British author. Secondly the killers are usually ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. You can almost understand why these people kill or at least why they think killing is necessary. No Evil stalker just a man or woman looking to get ahead or perhaps keep a secret. This is good stuff.
When I finish the mystery I might finish reading this Hemingway novel that has been sitting in my half read pile for a year or so now. I normally like the man's stuff but this is one more autobiographical and he is interacting with women. He doesn't interact with women well at all and it is emotionally hard to read a man failing in that area. I also have a Kerouac book, Visions of Cody, sitting around half read and I'm so used to reading fluff that I naturally skim through areas of books without dialogue. This books is like one monster paragraph. It takes me a while to get into the habit of reading it correctly and when you are reading it that way it is also emotionally draining. Dude wasn't the most positive of people. And I think I might need to start over again at the begining to get the feel for it. That is daunting.
I'll try for some pictures tomorrow. Maybe I can work up a good long rant. Let's see what inspires me.
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So now I'm reading a P. D. James novel recommended to me by the old man. Normally I'm not into the mystery, who done it stuff. My escapism wants magic or space opera type stuff. You know Dune, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons related books. That is the sort of fluff I live for. I read a lot of literature too but that's more like work, like staying in practice if I should ever contemplate going back to school. Anyways this P.D. James book is one about her character Adam Dagleish so it is loosely related to a number of other novels that she has written in that they share many of the same characters. (Protagonists only. No return of Dr. Moriarty here.) Her books are usually a good read and there are no graphic descriptions of murder. Maybe a bit about the crime scene but I'm not going to wake up late at night crying for my momma afraid that the Evil Killers are on the loose in my dreams. A couple things draw me in. First it's British. Just the way the speak and write is either musical or humorous to my ear. I love the sound of the language when it comes from a British author. Secondly the killers are usually ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. You can almost understand why these people kill or at least why they think killing is necessary. No Evil stalker just a man or woman looking to get ahead or perhaps keep a secret. This is good stuff.
When I finish the mystery I might finish reading this Hemingway novel that has been sitting in my half read pile for a year or so now. I normally like the man's stuff but this is one more autobiographical and he is interacting with women. He doesn't interact with women well at all and it is emotionally hard to read a man failing in that area. I also have a Kerouac book, Visions of Cody, sitting around half read and I'm so used to reading fluff that I naturally skim through areas of books without dialogue. This books is like one monster paragraph. It takes me a while to get into the habit of reading it correctly and when you are reading it that way it is also emotionally draining. Dude wasn't the most positive of people. And I think I might need to start over again at the begining to get the feel for it. That is daunting.
I'll try for some pictures tomorrow. Maybe I can work up a good long rant. Let's see what inspires me.
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