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landofnowhereI missed last week's booklogging for Christmas, so let's catch up.
How To, Randall Munroe. This was entertaining! How to do all the things, with rocket science. Yay xkcd.
New Grub Street, George Gissing. I started reading this in the fall, but took a break because it was all about Reardon's depression and self-sabotaging. I'm glad I took a break, but also glad I reread it. Though I discovered that it was not quite the book I remembered; I'd forgotten most of the bits about characters being depressed and mainly remembered the more interesting bits. I'm most fond of Dora and Whelpdale as characters, but I am very sad that Dora and Marian's friendship did not survive.
I would kind of like fix-it fic on that, or anything about Dora really, who is going around pioneering the genre of YA fiction while all the men are acting competitive and self-important. I like to imagine she's the only character in the book whose stories are still being read in the present day.
Year of the Griffin Diana Wynne Jones: reread bits of it for Yuletide treating, though did not have time for the full thing. Still the same book I remembered it being, but then I've read it so many times.
A History of Children's Books in 100 Books Roderick Cave and Sara Ayad: Christmas present to the family. Skimmed/read out of order: some interesting stuff in here, mostly what it says in the title. Interesting fact I learned from it: Andrew Lang's Fairy Books were actually written by his wife.
The Call by Edith Ayrton Zangwill. Reread, just started, will save the full review for next week. This book was written in 1924, so is in the US public domain as of today! However, as far as I can tell there is no public domain version online. Which is too bad, as it should be better-known!
It has been republished a couple times in the last two years. If you want to read it, you probably want the $9 ebook amazon link, publisher's site rather than the $140 scholarly edition.
How To, Randall Munroe. This was entertaining! How to do all the things, with rocket science. Yay xkcd.
New Grub Street, George Gissing. I started reading this in the fall, but took a break because it was all about Reardon's depression and self-sabotaging. I'm glad I took a break, but also glad I reread it. Though I discovered that it was not quite the book I remembered; I'd forgotten most of the bits about characters being depressed and mainly remembered the more interesting bits. I'm most fond of Dora and Whelpdale as characters, but I am very sad that Dora and Marian's friendship did not survive.
I would kind of like fix-it fic on that, or anything about Dora really, who is going around pioneering the genre of YA fiction while all the men are acting competitive and self-important. I like to imagine she's the only character in the book whose stories are still being read in the present day.
Year of the Griffin Diana Wynne Jones: reread bits of it for Yuletide treating, though did not have time for the full thing. Still the same book I remembered it being, but then I've read it so many times.
A History of Children's Books in 100 Books Roderick Cave and Sara Ayad: Christmas present to the family. Skimmed/read out of order: some interesting stuff in here, mostly what it says in the title. Interesting fact I learned from it: Andrew Lang's Fairy Books were actually written by his wife.
The Call by Edith Ayrton Zangwill. Reread, just started, will save the full review for next week. This book was written in 1924, so is in the US public domain as of today! However, as far as I can tell there is no public domain version online. Which is too bad, as it should be better-known!
It has been republished a couple times in the last two years. If you want to read it, you probably want the $9 ebook amazon link, publisher's site rather than the $140 scholarly edition.