Daily Reading (8th September)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from the TOS to the back of the cereal box!

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[quoththeravyn]

I just hafta say... When I see this particular prompt, the double-take is of the form "Wait... There are terms of service in the fine print on a cereal box??"

Otherwise, I'm re-reading old stuff I wrote, trying to float gently over a sad anniversary. Plus lots of checklists for work-stuff.

[ironed_orchid]

Ha!

[fred_mouse]

I read 'Small Things' by Mel Tregonning. Highly recommended, but kind of hard going emotionally in places. The story of a child having a hard time, who starts generating little black shadow animals (with teeth) that follow ?him? around, this story is told entirely in pictures (think of some of the Shaun Tan books for a basic idea). Mel has created a powerful picture of depression.

(disclaimer: Mel was a friend. This book has been brought to publication posthumously, after much effort from her family)

[ironed_orchid]

I've already heard good things about this. Might need to buy a copy.

[fred_mouse]

New Edition had copies last Friday.

Just be aware that it is quite confronting for a significant amout of the book - isolation, failure to 'meet standards', exclusion, mostly in a primary school context. The ending is not happy, but is decidedly less bleak, and reasonably credible

[nou]

Since last report, I have read:

• Middlemarch by George Eliot (an English classic which I’ve somehow failed to read until now! I liked it and will no doubt re-read at some point, though I found some of the sentences impossible to parse)
• Drifting House by Krys Lee (short stories, which I didn't actually realise until I got to the end of the first “chapter” then wondered why the abrupt shift to a completely different context)
• The Skies Discrowned by Tim Powers (I found the style and story of this a bit confusing until I realised it’s a very early one!)
• REAMDE by Neal Stephenson (a fairly random re-read prompted by my Kindle deciding this was suddenly “new” again, which reminded me that it exists and is a pretty good read; though the “and they all lived heterosexually ever after” ending does rather drive home the fact that I’m not the intended audience)

[bonnefois]

Since I last checked in, I finished the last of my library books, and one of my own.

Two For The Road by Jane & Michael Stern
How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them by Sol Stein
From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler
Finders Keepers by Karin Kallmaker

I think I mentioned that I was in the middle of Two For The Road, but not that I actually read it.