(I wrote this on July 24, 2008. Think of that!) I wandered the library looking for fiction with nothing in mind. I wanted to balance a fantasy novel th(I wrote this on July 24, 2008. Think of that!) I wandered the library looking for fiction with nothing in mind. I wanted to balance a fantasy novel that I grabbed on the spur of the moment with something more reliable, so I wandered over to the Ws for Wharton. I had Age of Innocence in my hand, but I've read it before and I am not in the mood for a repeat right now. Wharton sent me to Eliot, and I did have that resolve to read Mill on the Floss. Lo and behold! Two copies on the shelf. I took it as a sign. I am unreasonably excited to read this book.
Update: May 8, 2012 So some years have passed and I'm doing some Goodreads housekeeping and I am perusing my to-read list. This book is in my house RIGHT NOW from the LIBRARY which I grabbed to flush some really bad fantasy out of my brain (Name of the Wind, and I'm not going to even bother to review it). Wharton did not this time send me to Eliot; I was looking for EM Forster (and I did just give Howard's End three stars). I consider myself very reasonably excited to read Mill....more
I like Christopher Moore, so when I saw this on the shelf instead of the book I was sort of looking for (by Moorcock--I think I was in the wrong sectiI like Christopher Moore, so when I saw this on the shelf instead of the book I was sort of looking for (by Moorcock--I think I was in the wrong section), I grabbed it. His books are hilarious but I don't really remember what happens in them. I am sure I will like this as much as the others.
UPDATE: Considering that this is a sequel, I'm not going to read it right now. It's already been returned. But I do like Christopher Moore and this title has one of my few received comments, so I'll let it linger. Do you have to let it linger, you may ask--do you have to? Yes. I have to. I have to let it linger....more
Yeah, yeah. I'm getting this book because everyone is going on and on about how it's so similar to Desmond's predicament on [i]Lost[/i]. I don't have Yeah, yeah. I'm getting this book because everyone is going on and on about how it's so similar to Desmond's predicament on [i]Lost[/i]. I don't have a very good Vonnegut attention span and I probably won't remember it after, but I'll also probably like it while I'm reading it....more
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