I Can Only Blog At Lunch
Mar 23, 2010 by rilla
This self-scheduling is a bugger. I've been swamped and it sucks because I know that it's entirely my fault. Boo.
So, I've been all proud of myself for getting my reading groove back...
How Rilla Got her Reading Groove Back, the most boring movie ever made. Still more interesting than the Stella one.
... and I've been making some good progress on the stack of books that I want to read. Remember? I talked about them when I found all those books that I stole? I have finished reading Bodies in Motion and at Rest and The 52nd Poem.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest, I started to talk about ages ago and then I got all distracted by Brittany Murphy. Long story short, I liked it. The subject matter has the potential to be really depressing, but I found it to be a philosophical and rather uplifting discussion of death, and poetry, but not necessarily death & poetry. One of the final chapters touches on the industry of funeral homes, and I suspect that Six Feet Under used it as inspiration. Anyone interested death and dying, should read this book... that sounds macabre.
I really enjoyed The 52nd Poem. I kind of expected to dislike it because the narrator keeps inserting all of these poems into the middle of the fiction, but it's all part of the premise of the novel, so I sort of had to go along with it. Then, once I was along for the ride, I was able to put aside my worries of unnecessary pretension and just let myself be carried away. You'd think that I would totally dig fiction and poetry combined, wouldn't you? I do, but I want it to be done right and not just throwing poems in willy-nilly because they have something to do with the theme of the fiction. The 52nd Poem did it right, so I would totally recommend it to anyone who also likes fiction and poetry. My only criticism is that I thought that the minor characters were a lot more interesting than the main characters, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Next up, Spook Country. I'm loving it so far, but I do have a fairly hefty bias when it comes to Gibson.
So, I've been all proud of myself for getting my reading groove back...
How Rilla Got her Reading Groove Back, the most boring movie ever made. Still more interesting than the Stella one.
... and I've been making some good progress on the stack of books that I want to read. Remember? I talked about them when I found all those books that I stole? I have finished reading Bodies in Motion and at Rest and The 52nd Poem.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest, I started to talk about ages ago and then I got all distracted by Brittany Murphy. Long story short, I liked it. The subject matter has the potential to be really depressing, but I found it to be a philosophical and rather uplifting discussion of death, and poetry, but not necessarily death & poetry. One of the final chapters touches on the industry of funeral homes, and I suspect that Six Feet Under used it as inspiration. Anyone interested death and dying, should read this book... that sounds macabre.
I really enjoyed The 52nd Poem. I kind of expected to dislike it because the narrator keeps inserting all of these poems into the middle of the fiction, but it's all part of the premise of the novel, so I sort of had to go along with it. Then, once I was along for the ride, I was able to put aside my worries of unnecessary pretension and just let myself be carried away. You'd think that I would totally dig fiction and poetry combined, wouldn't you? I do, but I want it to be done right and not just throwing poems in willy-nilly because they have something to do with the theme of the fiction. The 52nd Poem did it right, so I would totally recommend it to anyone who also likes fiction and poetry. My only criticism is that I thought that the minor characters were a lot more interesting than the main characters, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Next up, Spook Country. I'm loving it so far, but I do have a fairly hefty bias when it comes to Gibson.
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