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What I've been reading
Jun. 14th, 2015 02:57 pm"Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony" by Eoin Colfer as an audiobook. I was joking that it should have been called "Artemis Fowl vs. Puberty" since our main character is 14 and very distracted by girls. Artemis Fowl once again gets entangled with the fairy folk as members of the fairies' "lost tribe" of demons starts appearing at random times and locations around the globe and then disappearing again. As with any time travel storyline, you will drive yourself crazy if you try to make all the pieces fit logically together, but it was still a lot of fun. The ending was a bit traumatic for Artemis, so it will be interesting to see how the implications play out in the next book.
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"Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing" by May Sarton. The main character is an elderly woman poet, and the story starts on the day two interviewers are coming to talk to her about her work, including a recent very popuplar volume of poetry. She is also mentoring a young man in the neighborhood who has had an unhappy love affair and is teaching him to work his issues out by writing poetry. During the interview, she goes back and revisits some of her love affairs over the years and how they affected her as a writer. I loved her thoughts on being an independent woman artist in the world, how people change us and affect us and become our muses. I felt the middle of the book got bogged down a little bit, but overall, I really loved this book and would like to read more by the author, particularly her memoirs.
My full comments on both books here.
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"Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing" by May Sarton. The main character is an elderly woman poet, and the story starts on the day two interviewers are coming to talk to her about her work, including a recent very popuplar volume of poetry. She is also mentoring a young man in the neighborhood who has had an unhappy love affair and is teaching him to work his issues out by writing poetry. During the interview, she goes back and revisits some of her love affairs over the years and how they affected her as a writer. I loved her thoughts on being an independent woman artist in the world, how people change us and affect us and become our muses. I felt the middle of the book got bogged down a little bit, but overall, I really loved this book and would like to read more by the author, particularly her memoirs.
My full comments on both books here.
