Doing a big push before the end of the year!
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers. My second reading of the second book - I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I always wish the two parts were reversed. I really find most of Frodo's adventures tedious, and the rest of them do far more interesting things. But overall it's quite an enjoyable series. I'm sorry I didn't get to it sooner!
Henry Reed Stiles, Bundling: Its Origin, Progress & Decline in America. 'Bundling', of course, is the practice of couples to court while lying in bed together. The treatise (written in 1872) doesn't cover the subject as thoroughly as I had hoped. Mostly, it's made up of attempts to find proof of the practice's existence, coy winks at the practice, and various peoples denial that the practice ever occurred amongst them. Not really all that satisfying.
Anne Rivers Siddons, Downtown. I kind of gave up on Siddons at the end of the '90s - she got a little repetitive and sensationalistic for me - but when she was on, her books were compulsively readable, her characters interesting, her plots certainly colorful. Downtown is one of those.
Vivian Schurfranz, Danielle. This is part of the Sunfire series that came out for teen readers when I was one. Laugh if you will - at the time I had the whole series (it was a series set in various points in American history, of course I did). And many of the books still hold up to rereading. This, however, was not one of them. Overwritten, entirely too many superlatives ... not at all worth rereading.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers. My second reading of the second book - I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I always wish the two parts were reversed. I really find most of Frodo's adventures tedious, and the rest of them do far more interesting things. But overall it's quite an enjoyable series. I'm sorry I didn't get to it sooner!
Henry Reed Stiles, Bundling: Its Origin, Progress & Decline in America. 'Bundling', of course, is the practice of couples to court while lying in bed together. The treatise (written in 1872) doesn't cover the subject as thoroughly as I had hoped. Mostly, it's made up of attempts to find proof of the practice's existence, coy winks at the practice, and various peoples denial that the practice ever occurred amongst them. Not really all that satisfying.
Anne Rivers Siddons, Downtown. I kind of gave up on Siddons at the end of the '90s - she got a little repetitive and sensationalistic for me - but when she was on, her books were compulsively readable, her characters interesting, her plots certainly colorful. Downtown is one of those.
Vivian Schurfranz, Danielle. This is part of the Sunfire series that came out for teen readers when I was one. Laugh if you will - at the time I had the whole series (it was a series set in various points in American history, of course I did). And many of the books still hold up to rereading. This, however, was not one of them. Overwritten, entirely too many superlatives ... not at all worth rereading.
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