Recent reading
Jul. 15th, 2007 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrThe heat wave and all made it the perfect time to catch up on some books while beating the heat in the basement.
One book I finished reading and blogged over at my art LJ was The Artist's Way. Some good advice, but mostly not my thing :-)
I was surprised to find I had a copy of The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. I didn't realize that there are a number of books by her that I meant to read as well - Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved to name two. I like reading young adult novels because there always seemed to many of them to read when Iwas younger, and I appreciate their introspective nature as well as their economy of words. Sometimes a good story doesn't need 300 pages if done right :-) I wonder what kids reading this book think of it today - it seems a tad dated, but enjoyable nonetheless and a sequel would be awesome!
After owning Dun Lady's Jess for several years, I finally read it. I bought it around the time I was looking for a couple of horse fantasy books by Mary Stanton. I looked it up on Amazon and apparently it was Doranna Durgin's first novel and there are two sequels. I think I would read more by this author, although this first book really could have been two, which would have allowed for more character development and maybe develop a better sense of time. I don't like those books where everything seems to happen in an hour :-) Anyway, it's a very original "fish out of water" idea - a rider and his horse from another land are transported to modern day, although the horse (Dun Lady's Jess) is transformed into a woman as a result of the process. As everything is new and conflicting to Jess, she becomes the only real developed character, but I imagine Durgin improves with the sequels.
One book I finished reading and blogged over at my art LJ was The Artist's Way. Some good advice, but mostly not my thing :-)
I was surprised to find I had a copy of The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. I didn't realize that there are a number of books by her that I meant to read as well - Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved to name two. I like reading young adult novels because there always seemed to many of them to read when Iwas younger, and I appreciate their introspective nature as well as their economy of words. Sometimes a good story doesn't need 300 pages if done right :-) I wonder what kids reading this book think of it today - it seems a tad dated, but enjoyable nonetheless and a sequel would be awesome!
After owning Dun Lady's Jess for several years, I finally read it. I bought it around the time I was looking for a couple of horse fantasy books by Mary Stanton. I looked it up on Amazon and apparently it was Doranna Durgin's first novel and there are two sequels. I think I would read more by this author, although this first book really could have been two, which would have allowed for more character development and maybe develop a better sense of time. I don't like those books where everything seems to happen in an hour :-) Anyway, it's a very original "fish out of water" idea - a rider and his horse from another land are transported to modern day, although the horse (Dun Lady's Jess) is transformed into a woman as a result of the process. As everything is new and conflicting to Jess, she becomes the only real developed character, but I imagine Durgin improves with the sequels.
