Saturday, August 3, 2013

Oh To Read

Which is what I am going to today, post haste. *grin*

I had signed up for Goodreads and stuck my personal reading challenge to my blog. (Thanks Erin!) It's set for 10 books this year and I am far behind. Currently reading Margret Mitchell's tome of all things romantic, ridiculous, racist, sexist, and 1860's southern. Oh and there's the war too. Shock that I haven't picked it up before now. I have no idea why. But for $0.75 at a thrift store you too can be charmed, angered, annoyed and unable to put it down. Kinda. Also useful to carry in your purse as a defensive weapon. Even as a paper back. It's over a grand long. George R. R. Martin's mother must have had this on display in their home as something to aspire to...and fear.

Seriously though, I am enjoying the read, even if it's taken 100 pages to move the story a whole day and a half. At that pace, how did she cram nearly a decade of story into only 1000+ pages? (Or maybe more than a decade? I'm not sure how much time passes.)

Ah well, my writing is done and I am off to read. Pray I don't manage to drop the book and knock myself out or break a bone or godforbid.


6 comments:

  1. I read that book once. Never again. It's so long! And I'm doing the Goodreads challenge, too!

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  2. It is so very long. Editing would have done her some good. The story itself is good so far, but her historicals and descriptives just drone on and on. I enjoy the history lesson, but goodness.

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  3. That is my favorite book!! You have to read the sequel (by a different author) when you are done!

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    1. I plan on it. Although the above mentioned long winded descriptive do go on, I am thoroughly enjoying the book and look forward to the next. Did you like the sequel?

      Man, there isn't enough time in the day to do all the things all of a sudden. I have reading to do, Sherlock to watch, cleaning to do, books to try to let go of and sell, blog stuff to learn and work on, exercise...how, how, HOW did I get so busy? At least when someone looks at me with that pained expression upon finding out I am a childless housewife and asks, "But what do you DO all day?" I can say, "Well, if you must know..." LOL

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  4. Lol! Well I should say that I read GWTW twice in about a 8 year time span. Hated it the first time, loved it the second time. Then I refused to read Scarlett for 5ish years because it was by a different author...but when I finally did I loved it almost more than the first. Definitely long winded though.

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    1. Ya know...I have/had those same feelings about the sequel. If it's written well, a continuation by a different author can be a wonderful addition to a story. If it isn't...we know what happened to VC Andrews legacy.

      So yeah, but I'll give it a chance. I am still working on GWTW for now. Chapter 5 baby! lol

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