One of the things that really suffered through our moving house, minor renovations and the arrival of a puppy is reading. One of the first things I packed was the books. On the weekend I had some hard choices on what to keep and what to get rid of, having pulled 4 cartons of my books back from the storage shed. After a tough few hours, I now have one carton of keeper books and to-be-read books.
So what am I reading at the moment: Paris in Love - handbag book- snippets of a year in Paris with Eloisa James. The Land of the Painted Caves - bedside table - this book will be the end of me. I rushed out to buy it the day it released, and yet I can't read more than a few pages at a time. It seems to have lost the magic of the first five in the series and the ONLY reason I'm still going is that I've invested a lot of time in the first five books and I want to see how Jean M Auel finishes Ayla's story. Have decided to read the paragraphs that start with dialogue and skip every description of every cave and every journey between caves. Australian Geographic - couldn't go past the Kelpie on the cover and inside I found an article on Mortuary Station in Sydney which is one of my all time fascinations. I so want to visit it. Australian Country Style - Christmas 2014 edition - I'm writing a Christmas scene and what better way to feel Christmassy in September? (Ok, so Woolworths has fruit mince pies and puddings on the shelves this week, so I could eat fruit mince pies!) Health and Fitness - Is your desk making you fat? How could I not throw this into the mix? Hubby suggests reading the article while eating Scotch Finger biscuits is probably not helping... So that's my reading pile at the moment. What about you? 9/9/2015 08:44:01 am
How disappointing that the last book in the series is tough going. There's nothing worse than diving into the most wonderful story (especially when it's a trilogy or longer) but having the ending or final novel fall completely flat. I hope the actual ending doesn't turn out to be too disappointing.
Fiona Greene
9/9/2015 09:28:29 pm
Hey Danielle, I'm sure if I can find the ending in amongst all the descriptions of caves I'll be ok. Its as though the author had to cram every last piece of research into this final book and its ruining her character's stories. But, having said that, reading the first line of each paragraph, or the dialogue is working. Comments are closed.
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