Reading Wednesday
Feb. 27th, 2013 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhSo, I've been forgetting to do this for the last several weeks. But today I remembered! I'm just going to skip all the previous weeks because, hey, I'm lazy.
What are you reading now?
The Discovery of India by Nehru. Because I figured it was time to stop reading cheesy chick-lit/random travelogues/stuff with pretty covers for my '50 Books about South Asia' self-challenge, and actually read some important things. Discovery of India is good, so far, though I'm less than 100 pages in. However, I keep seeming to read it at the same time as watching to TV, listening to music, and having conversations, and it is not a book that lends itself to that. I have to keep rereading the same page over and over. Which is my fault rather than the book's, but it's my main impression of it so far.
I'm also listening to an audiobook of Villette by Charlotte Bronte. I'm don't have many thoughts about that yet, except that it is managing to be scarier than Turn of the Screw. Ghost nuns!
What did you just finish?
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Mainly because I had never read it before, and it is very short. Unfortunately, I didn't think it was very scary (not that a hundred-year-old ghost story has much chance of being genuinely frightening today), nor did I get much into the "is it really happening" or "is the governess crazy" debate. I'm guess I'm glad to have read it, if just for the sake of checking it off my list, but I didn't get much out of it.
Before that, I read Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, which I've had a copy of for ages and for some reason had never gotten around to reading. It's very good! Funny, in a very, very black humor sort of way. Which I suppose is why it won the Booker.
What books have you aquired this week?
None, whoo!
What are you reading now?
The Discovery of India by Nehru. Because I figured it was time to stop reading cheesy chick-lit/random travelogues/stuff with pretty covers for my '50 Books about South Asia' self-challenge, and actually read some important things. Discovery of India is good, so far, though I'm less than 100 pages in. However, I keep seeming to read it at the same time as watching to TV, listening to music, and having conversations, and it is not a book that lends itself to that. I have to keep rereading the same page over and over. Which is my fault rather than the book's, but it's my main impression of it so far.
I'm also listening to an audiobook of Villette by Charlotte Bronte. I'm don't have many thoughts about that yet, except that it is managing to be scarier than Turn of the Screw. Ghost nuns!
What did you just finish?
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Mainly because I had never read it before, and it is very short. Unfortunately, I didn't think it was very scary (not that a hundred-year-old ghost story has much chance of being genuinely frightening today), nor did I get much into the "is it really happening" or "is the governess crazy" debate. I'm guess I'm glad to have read it, if just for the sake of checking it off my list, but I didn't get much out of it.
Before that, I read Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, which I've had a copy of for ages and for some reason had never gotten around to reading. It's very good! Funny, in a very, very black humor sort of way. Which I suppose is why it won the Booker.
What books have you aquired this week?
None, whoo!
