Monday, May 28, 2012

Monday Reading Notes

I had this idea that I would buckle down and do some serious TBR reading over the summer starting, like, yesterday. I have a fantastic little library full of great titles picked up at book sales over the past year that are all calling out to me AND I CAN'T DECIDE which one to get busy with next. I even pulled out a little mini pile of Really-Want-To-Read-Next titles so that I'm not distracted by ALL THE REST OF THEM. But! I paused too long to start a new one and, now, to make matters more complicated, my bargain book sale compulsion recently led me to acquire a thing like . . . 

 

which, obvs, must be read RIGHT NOW because the cover is delightfully, intriguingly trashy and the inside jacket has this for a teaser: Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of [1760s] London: Never give up your liberty. Clothes make the woman. Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. I made the mistake of reading the prologue and first couple of pages rather than putting it directly on the bottom of my TBR pile for later - and now I'm hopelessly hooked. I was so sure I was ready for something a little more modern after being immersed in The Serpent's Tale, but no. Fictional or non, the lure of books about gutsy historical women is just too great. 

6 comments:

laughingwolf said...

while i like gutsy women, i have no idea where to find these books in my small [relatively] town and am still too ill to go far, walking

once i finish mary shelley's 'frankenstein', will have to get more books... read all new ones i have, some 50-odd, PLUS another dozen i borrowed from my nephew...

if you like fantasy, l.e. modessitt, jr., has many strong women in the novels he's written - love it!

Sam (Tiny Library) said...

I've read Emma Donoghue's The Sealed Letter, which I enjoyed and in the comments section of my review everyone said it was in the same style of Slammerkin, only Slammerkin was much better. Can't wait to see what you think of it!

Trish said...

LW - fantasy is not a genre usually read but I'll give that one a look over at the library. One never knows . . .

Sam - yes! I was hoping to hear something like that. I'm not familiar with this author except to read reviews of her books, most of which have been favorable. I also picked up Room the other day and am hoping that one will be good too . . . although it sounds like its had mixed reviews, so.

Nothing left to do but to get reading!

Alex said...

I am always making great plans about how my reading is going to go forward and they are thwarted every time by that book which will insist on floating around in my peripheral vision nudging at my mind until I pick it up just to read a page or two or three or...........

I'm glad I'm not the only reader who can't stick to plans.

Trish said...

Alex - haha yes, floating around in my peripheral vision is exactly what those beastly books do. I try to be disciplined about it all, but alas . . .

laughingwolf said...

he has in the neighborhood of 100 titles, and is a nyt best seller... can't be all bad ;)

i was intro'd to him by another canuck who completed her first book, then suffered a setback from her health and has been unable to write - dealing with her husband's death, then her dog's, have not helped