June 13, 2008
Friday Book Blogging
Okay. Yesterday I returned eight books to the local library, of which I had read seven. They were all schlock. In all, after much deliberation, I have selected Barbara Michaels' Search the Shadows. It is the story of the ubiquitous orphan who is in search of her real father. The search is complicated by academic cover-ups and non-starting romances. The redeming virtue of the book is the intelligence of the author, which despite the relatively formulaic storyline, comes through the writing without being pedantic.
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I always like to read your book comments. How do you pick which ones you read? Fairly randomly off the shelf? Whatever title sounds interesting? "Pick of the week" from the 430-year-old librarian?
I'm a "randomly off the shelf" kinda gal. I do keep a list of titles that have grabbed my interest through Amazon, Borders and Barnes & Noble recommendations, but for the most part, it's grab and go every Thursday night. I never take a book without reading the jacket.
And all our librarians, while under 430 years old, are the Maeve Binchey variety. (Not that there's anything wrong with that....)
I just finished "The Pillars of the Earth." Not something that I would have picked up on my own, but it was a gift.
It was ... very, very long.
Some interesting period detail (though I see on Amazon that the book's haters say Follett got a lot wrong), but the villains are just so broadly drawn and capital E Evil -- no, make that EVIL -- that I grew tired of it rather early.
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