Now I have a question for everybody. I read a lot of entertainment literature. Should I post about it? I used to but then I felt that it was annoying everybody. So now I keep my Freida McFaddens, Lisa Gardners and John Lescroarts to myself.
Do we have any lovers of fun, entertaining, airport-type reading?
I always enjoyed those posts. And as you know, I’m somewhat on the hunt for tolerable light reading after suddenly not being able to stomach what I used to use for this purpose (though it hasn’t been a concern lately since I’m currently hooked on watching moronic youtube videos.)
I think you were imagining the annoyance, unless everyone was annoyed but me.
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Yes, bring it on. Lightweight reading is great for airports or when one is sick or otherwise having reduced ability to concentrate.
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Well, I’m currently reading (and very much enjoying) Ruth Rendell’s “A Judgement in Stone” after your review of it earlier this year, so thank you!
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No, five! I missed The Minotaur when I was counting them up. Have got two more queued up on my library hold list, but after that the library has not got any more. Ah, well. Enjoyed Asta’s Book immensely, and the rest– Dark Adapted Eye, 13 Steps Down, and the Chimney Sweeper’s Boy, all very engaging. She does a thing that almost doesn’t exist in pop fiction– women who develop more complexity as they get older. No idea why that should be largely missing from fiction.
Rendell was great at creating memorable characters who stay with you. She had an amazing insight into human nature.
One Across, Two Down is one of my favorites. I read it probably ten times.
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Oh, I’m so glad. It’s one of my lifelong favorites. So good!
The issue of impoverished subjectivities is becoming very important these days. We went to the zoo to watch a light show recently, and it was magical. But I saw several kids between ages of 4 and 10, who were dragged around in little carts while they started into a device. Even the dinosaur exhibit with huge lifelike dinosaurs didn’t get them to lift their heads up. These are future Eunice Parchments right there, and we are all happy, deluded Coverdales who don’t begin to understand that these kids are growing up to be human in a very different way from how we are human. Everybody should read the book and learn to spot Eunices among us.
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Another bonus that’s just occuring to me: my best friend might enjoy books like these and we could discuss them together. She loves to read, but Stephen King is more her thing than Victorian era novels. Though I’m not sure how much reading of any kind she’s getting done with an energetic 3 year old.
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