Reading the End

The Children of Green Knowe, L.M. Boston

Published 7 Mar 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

Oh my God this book was boring. It was so, so, so boring. It started out boring and it carried on being boring and there was nothing but boring and I kept thinking that something, anything, would have to happen eventually, but nothing ever did. Ever. Nothing ever happened. There was some conflict set up; there were suggestions of some kind of mystery; and nothing ever happened. I was reading this book during one of my classes today (a fairly dull class, as it goes), and the book was so ungodly boring that I actually chose to put the book…

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Emily of New Moon, L.M. Montgomery

Published 6 Mar 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

When my life gets stressful, I don’t read new books. Hence I am rereading a bunch of old things. The Color Purple and now all of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily books. I have to confess that I don’t understand the undying allure of Anne of Green Gables. I don’t dislike those books or anything, but I can totally live without them – and God, how boring is Gilbert? Is it just me? Isn’t Gilbert dull? Don’t we all sort of want to chuck Gilbert off a cliff? When I was a little girl I read Anne of Green Gables and stopped…

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The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Published 5 Mar 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

You know what I don’t understand? I don’t understand why The Color Purple is so ridiculously awesome, and why when there are all these really subpar books running around, why people don’t just go ahead and read The Color Purple all the time. Why don’t people just read The Color Purple all the time, and forget about that Atonement crap? The Color Purple. Wow. When I was young, my mother had told me once that The Color Purple was one of her favorite books of all time, and I remember her telling me her favorite line (“White folks is a…

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Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos

Published 2 Mar 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

Suggested by: My darling Mum This was good. Ms. de los Santos writes most truthfully about relationships. The little girl was very interesting and intense. I’d write more but I’m too busy trying to get school things done so that I can watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer later.

Doomsday Book, Connie Willis

Published 27 Feb 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

Recommended by: Between the Covers Ah, time travel books. You are so numerous, and yet you so often do not want me to love you. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Time Traveler’s Wife and me are buddies. Time at the Top makes my life happy by its very existence. It can be done. Apparently with Time in the title. (Just so I don’t feel like a big meanie when I complain about Doomsday Book, I’ll say that Diana Wynne Jones, whom I love more than my luggage, wrote a time travel book that I didn’t much care…

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Heck Superhero, by Martine Leavitt

Published 24 Feb 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

Martine Leavitt is still my new BFF, and great respect to her for raising seven kids and still managing to write books, but I didn’t like Heck Superhero as much as The Dollmage and Keturah. I think that writing in the present time may just not be her thing, and it may actually be necessary for her to set her stories in strange, alternate versions of England from back in the day. Heck Superhero is about a kid whose mother goes MIA, and as a result of some pretty spectacular magic thinking (he’s only a kid, so this is permissible),…

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Confession

Published 23 Feb 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

I am a bad blogger, both here and on my regular blog. This is because I am insanely busy with schoolwork (ugh, it never ends), and trying to secure my future in 500-1000 words; and when all that business is over with, I will still be a bad blogger because I have just discovered that in spite of being initially very unimpressed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it is actually a lot like crack cocaine in that I absolutely cannot stop now that I have started. This is true to such a vast extent that I have had to give…

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The Dollmage, Martine Leavitt

Published 20 Feb 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

My people, lay down your stones. Before you stone this Annakey Rainsayer, you know it is the law and her right to have her story told. It is my duty as Dollmage to tell it. Each villager has the right to one stone, and no one will forbid you to throw it. But listen to me, and when I am done each of you will decide for yourselves if this Annakey is worthy of execution. That is right. Lay the stones at your feet, keep them close by if it comforts you. So few of you? The stones will get…

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Keturah and Lord Death, Martine Leavitt

Published 19 Feb 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

“Tell me what it is like to die,” I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. “You experience something similar every day,” he said softly. “It is as familiar to you as bread and butter.” “Yes,” I said. “It is like every night when I fall asleep.” “No. It is like every morning when you wake up.” Recommended by: Brooklyn Arden Oh how I liked this book. It’s about a girl called Keturah who goes into the forest after a white hart and meets Lord Death. She doesn’t want to die without having known…

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The Chatham School Affair, Thomas H. Cook

Published 18 Feb 2008 by Jenny Hamilton

Meh. Everyone kept comparing other books to The Chatham School Affair with favorable-sounding opinions, so I picked it up at the library a little while ago and started reading it, and I have to confess that I found it somewhat trying. I couldn’t get into the story because of all the frantic foreshadowing. It kept being all Little did we know when first we beheld that peaceful landscape how much BLOOD AND DEATH AND MISERY there would be there later on, and I only read a little bit of it, but I just got fed up with the way Mr.…

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