Wednesday

[nightdog_barks]

Sunny, 73 warm degrees (22.8 degrees Celsius). Have set all the deck plants back on the deck to enjoy the weather -- at least until the weekend, when it's supposed to turn cool again.

So. Finished Fieldwork, and, as I had feared, the ending ... didn't really match up to the rest of the book. My reaction was "Wait, that was it?" Still, the rest of the book was a great read, and I'm giving it a solid A. Now I am reading Jo Walton's Among Others, and I'm three-quarters of the way through the thing, and I still can't decide if I like it or not. It's written in the form of a diary, which reminds me a lot of Louise Fitzhugh's classic Harriet the Spy, but I'm not nearly as enthralled with Walton's narrator as I was with Fitzhugh's. This is another book that's up for a Nebula Award.

Oh well. Here's a wonderful article about Eudora Welty's garden. :-)

Comments

[damigella]

I was wondering if you have any opinion about the suitability of either Harriet the Spy or Among Others for my 12 year old daughter who likes to read (and isn't the best at socializing).
She doesn't have very sophisiticated taste, and reads as happily Tolkien, Rowling, and (sorry) Christopher Paolini. She even liked the Inkheart trilogy which I found truly unbearable, but I also read lots of crap (admittedly not crap in three different languages) at that age.