What I've been reading

[sarahmichigan]

I'm at 54 books for the year, and will probably end up with 56 or more by the end of 2009. This is the most I've read since I started tracking (in 2006). It feels good- I was a voracious reader as a kid, and probably read closer to 100 books a year up until college. While in college, I put a lot of time into reading for class, but I still read a lot in the summer- one summer I noted that I read 37 or 38 books between the end of finals in April and heading back to class in September, for instance. But, as an adult, I hadn't been making as much time for pleasure reading, and it's been fun to make it a priority again.

"Every Which Way but Dead" by Kim Harrison. It's the third in her "Hollows" series. They're brain candy, but as books on CD are great for long road trips.

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"Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll. It's funny how you may THINK you know the Alice books from movie adaptations, but there's a lot of scenes in the original novellas that almost never make it into adaptations. The reader who did almost all of "Wonderland" was terrific- a British guy named Peter Yearsley who has a melodious voice and even sings the songs in the book. My full comments on both books here.

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[aedifica]

I recently re-read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the first time in years. It was a favorite of mine when I was young. Re-reading it now was interesting, seeing what I remembered perfectly and what was in there that I hadn't noticed before. I'm slowly working on Through the Looking-Glass now (slowly because I have it as an ebook on my phone, and that's not how I do most of my reading).