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listersgirl) wrote2004-08-05 09:24 pm
listersgirl) wrote2004-08-05 09:24 pm
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Garth Nix Lirael
This was great - I mean, I enjoyed the first one (after a slow start), but I really liked this. Lirael is a Daughter of the Clayr, but she is unlike any of the others, lacking the Sight that defines the Clayr. Sam is the Prince and the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, much to his own dismay. They each have a journey to take in order to help the kingdom, which is being targeted by a necromancer. But the best parts are Lirael's explorations of the library, and her continuing curiosity. The ending was so frustrating, though!
Geneen Roth When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair
I have a hard time with cheerleading books like these. I think I don't take advice well unless it's clinical and academic. But this was actually pretty interesting, if things that I mostly had heard before. It talked about food and our relationship with it, and things that can be done to make that better. The format was a little glib, but I think I'll look at some others' of hers.
P.G. Wodehouse Life With Jeeves
Collection that includes the stories Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good Jeeves, and Right Ho Jeeves. Wodehouse is always wonderful, and I never regret reading Jeeves. I think this might have been a bit of overkill, though. Next time I'm trying some of his other works, maybe the Psmith or the Blandings books.
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth
This book was originally released nearly 15 years ago, but it's still incredibly relevent, and I wish I'd read it sooner. I mean, many of the examples are so out of date it's a bit disturbing, and I'd have loved to see what she would have made the current trend toward makeover shows like The Swan, but the underlying issues and causes haven't changed - people, particularly women but increasingly men, too, are being made to feel that there is only one way to look, and that if they don't look that way, they're not worthwhile human beings. Everyone should read the book.
This was great - I mean, I enjoyed the first one (after a slow start), but I really liked this. Lirael is a Daughter of the Clayr, but she is unlike any of the others, lacking the Sight that defines the Clayr. Sam is the Prince and the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, much to his own dismay. They each have a journey to take in order to help the kingdom, which is being targeted by a necromancer. But the best parts are Lirael's explorations of the library, and her continuing curiosity. The ending was so frustrating, though!
Geneen Roth When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair
I have a hard time with cheerleading books like these. I think I don't take advice well unless it's clinical and academic. But this was actually pretty interesting, if things that I mostly had heard before. It talked about food and our relationship with it, and things that can be done to make that better. The format was a little glib, but I think I'll look at some others' of hers.
P.G. Wodehouse Life With Jeeves
Collection that includes the stories Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good Jeeves, and Right Ho Jeeves. Wodehouse is always wonderful, and I never regret reading Jeeves. I think this might have been a bit of overkill, though. Next time I'm trying some of his other works, maybe the Psmith or the Blandings books.
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth
This book was originally released nearly 15 years ago, but it's still incredibly relevent, and I wish I'd read it sooner. I mean, many of the examples are so out of date it's a bit disturbing, and I'd have loved to see what she would have made the current trend toward makeover shows like The Swan, but the underlying issues and causes haven't changed - people, particularly women but increasingly men, too, are being made to feel that there is only one way to look, and that if they don't look that way, they're not worthwhile human beings. Everyone should read the book.