FF: Is It a Contradiction?
Yes. Kel’s Eyes Really Are That Green!
As I try to do too much with too little time, I found that I wanted to return to much-loved familiar places. Re-reading can be stimulating, as well as soothing. This sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t – at least for me.
For those of you just discovering this part of my blog, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week. Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines.
The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list. If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.
Once again, this is not a book review column. It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.
Do you find re-reading stimulating and soothing all at once?
Recently Completed:
Always Look On the Bright Side by Eric Idle. Audiobook. Read by the author. Alternately funny and thoughtful, brilliantly presented. This one was recommended by my friend, Alan Robson, in his book review column. Now I’m recommending to you…
Treecat Wars by David Weber and Jane Lindskold.
In Progress:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Audiobook. I’ve read this many times, but I don’t think I’ve ever as an audio.
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper. Reread. I chose this one because the second book in the series, The Dark Is Rising is set at Christmas, and I decided to read the lead-in. The two storylines come together in Greenwitch.
Also:
Still some magazine articles. I will reserve my comments on social anthropologists who build complex theories to try to explain something anyone with common sense could figure out in about two breaths…
