While She Knits

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Summer is over, school has started, Megan is back in Ohio knitting a new pair of socks for her upcoming trip to Boston as a Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards Honoree, and thesehnsucht 's recent post brings to mind just how long it has been since we had a WSK conversation.

What books have you read recently that really left an impression on you?  What are the ones on your To Be Read or Upcoming New Release lists that you are simply itching to get at? 

Comments

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

I just read To Say Nothing of the Dog and had read Doomsday book before! I had trouble imagining how the same basic set-up could result in a funny book, but it surely did.

Currently reading (rereading) The Iliad -- no, really! Fagles translation. It's kind of a page-turner. Unlike when I read it in Greek and had to look up every other word!

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

I had trouble imagining how the same basic set-up could result in a funny book, but it surely did.


I know, I felt the same way! The same basic set up resulting in two very different novels, one tragic and one comedic, takes some serious writing skills. So many authors can only do one or the other.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I love the part where Hera loses her temper with Artemis and starts whacking her with her own bow. That scene always made me giggle madly. It's just so-undignified! Especially set in the midst of what's basically a donnybrook featuring most of the gods.

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd forgotten how it's all the extreme childishness of the gods that's at fault. Like Hera saying, in effect, "I just want to destroy one little city, and you won't let me. Well, go ahead and destroy all my favorite cities, then, and let me do this one."