I'm back blogging
Okay, Peanutfiend fans, I'm back. With the latest in books. First, Fingersmith. It seems impossible for contemporary writers to write about the Victorian period in England without having their novels filled with pornography and illicit sex, as if that were all the Victorians ever did. I guess it's a swing of the pendulum. Aside from the didn't-they-ever-think-about-anything-else? problem, Fingersmith was a page-turner.
Second book to report on is The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt, the author of The Secret History. TSH was fascinating, chilling, but TLF was familiar territory, Southern weird, spinster aunts and rednecks racial tensions and young kids seeing it all. Tartt writes well, but the plot petered out and the whole exercise seemed a bit pointless to me.
So, blog readers, what are you reading these days?
Second book to report on is The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt, the author of The Secret History. TSH was fascinating, chilling, but TLF was familiar territory, Southern weird, spinster aunts and rednecks racial tensions and young kids seeing it all. Tartt writes well, but the plot petered out and the whole exercise seemed a bit pointless to me.
So, blog readers, what are you reading these days?
posted by peanutfiend | 7:29 PM
1 Comments:
I gather this blog experiment isn't long for this world. The key to blogging is that you have to post regularly; if you don't, people (like me) are gonna stop checking.
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