In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 26th Year, Week 37/52

I finished two books last week; the second part of Maus and Figure Drawing.  Both were library books.

Maus was utterly harrowing.  I was very glad to be looking at mice rather a realistic depiction of the human beings involved in the holocaust, because this was about as much as I could handle.  I'm glad that I read it, though.

Figure Drawing is a book I've been reading through for a while, which has lots of tips on drawing people.

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 26th Year, Week 36/52

The guy who came to my birthday party 36 weeks ago is now the guy I'm moving in with.  Funny how that works.

Three books last week; Maus, Jinian Footseer and The Season of Passage.

Season of Passage is a Christopher Pike book for adults, which means it has all of the excellent drama, and blonde, blue-eyed hindus, and dramatic sci-fi/fantasy, but how his characters get to swear and have sex.  Excellent.

Maus is a true story; the author's father tells him about living through WW2 as a Jew.  Jewish people are presented as mice, Germans are cats, Polish people are pigs and Americans are dogs.  I understood why when four people were hung and I really appreciated that I was looking at mice and not humans.

Jinian Footseer is my favourite book, which I've discussed multiple times before.

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 26th Year, Week 35/52

Another late post!

I finished three audiobooks last week; seasons 6 & 7 of Clare in the Community and Lorna Doone.

Did you know that there's a dirty joke about cucumbers in chapter 53 of Lorna Doone?

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 26th Year, Week 34/52

Three books last week.

Unwanted, I liked.  I saw the twist coming, but then I was privy to information that the main characters weren't.  Made the last hundred and fifty pages or so more frustrating.

Abandon is a modern retelling of the myth of Persephone.  I liked it, but I've yet to pick up the sequels so maybe not that much.

Finally, Her.  I have one question.  What the hell is up with one of the characters constantly taking off his pants, getting down on all fours and barking like a dog?  This is calmly described by other characters who do not seem to consider it at all unusual.  What the hell?

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 26th Year, Week 33/52

Only two books this week!

The Night Circus  was an interesting one.  All very fantastical and dramatic, which is nice.  But, also has a big logical flaw, to whit; why don't they just stop competing?  Very silly.

The Girl on the Train was an interesting mystery, almost reminiscent of Sophie Hannah or Gillian Flynn.  About a woman who witnesses something from a train window, and three very flawed women who need to sort through what's true or not.

This is a week late, so feel lucky I wrote it at all.