Yes, I'm a bad blogger :)

After Chasm City I read through What Would Dewey Do? (the second volume of Unshelved comic strips), then read my romance for the Book Lust class. I picked up Here and Now by Constance O'Day-Flannery. I initially picked it up because she was billed as "The queen of time travel romance" only to find that time travel romance is very different than time travel SF-type novel. (The only time travel happened in the first 5 pages and there was no attempt to explain it). Overall I'd say the writing was pretty atrocious, but despite that I got sucked in and had to keep reminding myself that it was a romance novel so would have a happy ending. Unfortunately now I need to come up with 5 discussion questions for it for class. Next up for class is a Western.

Chaim Potok's I am the Clay was a departure from his usual stories about Jewish people in New York. Instead of New York, this one was set in Korea during the Korean war. An old child-less married couple fleeing the Chinese army rescue an orphaned boy and the rest of the novel is the story of their relationships and attempts to survive.

I needed a light read a few days ago so picked up Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant. Vimes, dwarves, werewolves, vampires and a scone. What's not to like? In some ways I wish I'd paid a bit more attention to what order I was reading the Discworld books in, but in others I realize it really doesn't matter.

I'm now working on Orhan Pamuk's Snow for book group.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 8:43 PM