Books Not Read ...

[tamaranth]

So far in 2008 I've started, continued or picked up with good intentions ...

* The Pyrates, George McDonald Fraser (in memoriam): cannot read more than thirty pages without brain itching. Good for nights when I go to bed drunk.
* The Howling Miller -- Arto Paasilinna: clunky translation, unexceptional story. Hoping for marvels in last 50 pages.
* Incantation -- Alice Hoffman: next book-club book, looking forward to it but simply haven't been in the mood for this at any of the select-next-book decision points lately.
* The Amber Spyglass -- Philip Pullman: doesn't count as (a) reread (b) skimmed
* One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human -- the cats will only let me read this in the bathroom, and they keep wandering in to quiz me ...
* Selected Tales and Sketches -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: still grimly plodding through Puritans / witchcraft / pioneers for Penguin 'blog a classic'.
* Where Three Roads Meet -- Salley Vickers: really must get round to this so swisstone can have it back, and while I still remember anything the author said at the Purcell Room in early December
* Empire of Blue Water -- Stephan Talty: pirates! Morgan!
* Ghostwriting Modernism -- Helen Sword: research
* Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680-1900 -- Jonathan Lamb: research

Meanwhile I am sitting at werk, counting the hours (not many!) and trying to rise above the frustration of cancelled meetings*. And I cannot even read surreptitiously under the desk ...

*I don't care if I can't hand things over.

Comments

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I've just read "The Reavers" which was moderately good unclean fun. We all read "Pyrates" from the library many years ago and really enjoyed it at the time. On the latest evidence, I think I'd find the boob fixation a little wearying.