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I have still been reading, just not writing much about what I've been reading. I really don't have too much to say about these books and they were mostly research for the novel I am not writing.
The Lady Has A Past by Amanda Quick is a romance novel set in the 1930s with supernatural elements, and neither of these were clear to me at the outset, which I think would have improved the experience. I guess my main thing is that I did not like the love interest and he did not improve over time, which is a massive flaw in a romance book, but I'm sure he would be to someone else's taste.
Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgeway could not be more different. It's a recent book about cops and criminals in Ireland and it's... well, I was recommended it because it did not have a plot, and that was exactly as advertised, it did not have a plot going through. It felt more like reading a collection of loosely-connected short stories, some of which were better than others, and every time I actually liked a character I got to be full of dread because I had the feeling something awful was going to happen to them because, in the book, a lot of awful things happen to a lot of people. It wasn't terrible but I'm not sure who I would even begin to recommend it to.
I am still reading, though the new book is taking a while. I got a lot of reading done over my vacation, but that was two weeks ago by now and it's hard to insert back in the feeling of having nothing else to do at a cabin on the North Shore besides sit on a chilly beach and read into one's normal every day life. My partner manages to read much more than me but he's... motivated, I guess is the word. And even with how much he reads he still acquires them faster than he can read them so it's not like that problem ever actually goes away if you read faster.
Anyway, it's only June. I am still on track to get my 10 books read, I think.
The Lady Has A Past by Amanda Quick is a romance novel set in the 1930s with supernatural elements, and neither of these were clear to me at the outset, which I think would have improved the experience. I guess my main thing is that I did not like the love interest and he did not improve over time, which is a massive flaw in a romance book, but I'm sure he would be to someone else's taste.
Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgeway could not be more different. It's a recent book about cops and criminals in Ireland and it's... well, I was recommended it because it did not have a plot, and that was exactly as advertised, it did not have a plot going through. It felt more like reading a collection of loosely-connected short stories, some of which were better than others, and every time I actually liked a character I got to be full of dread because I had the feeling something awful was going to happen to them because, in the book, a lot of awful things happen to a lot of people. It wasn't terrible but I'm not sure who I would even begin to recommend it to.
I am still reading, though the new book is taking a while. I got a lot of reading done over my vacation, but that was two weeks ago by now and it's hard to insert back in the feeling of having nothing else to do at a cabin on the North Shore besides sit on a chilly beach and read into one's normal every day life. My partner manages to read much more than me but he's... motivated, I guess is the word. And even with how much he reads he still acquires them faster than he can read them so it's not like that problem ever actually goes away if you read faster.
Anyway, it's only June. I am still on track to get my 10 books read, I think.
