Seven books last week! That's 25th February to the 2nd March. Bluebeard's Egg and Breakfast at Tiffany's are both library books. I didn't enjoy Breakfast at Tiffany's because I didn't like Holly Golightly. She's an annoying little twit and quite self-centred. Bluebeard's Egg had some interesting stories but like most of Atwood's stories they didn't have a lot of plot. I like plot. Plot is awesome. I enjoy books with plot. You can do many excellent things without a lot of plot, such as examining situations and thinking about them. But I quite like when things actually happen.
The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories did have plots. Most of the stories were pretty Victorian, as it was published in the sixties and included a lot of Victorian work. I found there wasn't a lot of build-up; most of the stories simply explained the horror and that was the end of it.
I did enjoy the short story by Harry Harrison in the collection, moreso than The Stainless Steel Rat. It was okay, just not the sort of thing I normally go for; a cyberpunk piracy and conman story.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a book I've returned to over and over in the past decade. This was the first time I'd listened to the audiobook, which I enjoyed once I'd gotten used to the voice. I like listening to books on 3x speed; it makes longer books much more accessible. Which is how I finished the Harry Potter series, though it did make me cry on the bus.
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