Ok, I know I was supposed to start, and then finish, The Ginger Man. But, after 100 pages, I got annoyed. Written in an old school lilting poetic fashion, with an added Irish accent, I have given up for now in light of better pastures. Being the New Year and all, the futuristic 2010 (I hate to think what George Orwell thought of 2010 with what he wrote about for 1984) I have decided to allow myself more time to read, and therefore get a goal of 60 books done this year.
So I took a trip to my favorite library, and started an-orderin'. Up and down the escalator I went, shopping and just taking things off the aisles. I have figured out that majority of my books are in the popular fiction section, or a level up on the Lit. floor...and people seem not to go up one floor! Ohhh, the scandal of it all :) So more books for me. Which means I did my usual habit of getting book happy (god forbid I was without a book for a day, ESPECIALLY over New Year's). So I've got about 10 out, including 2 which are not on my list but the covers looked good :)
Wanting to start something short and sweet, I have picked up Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, a <300 page novel that fits perfectly in my purse. The writing style from the 1950s is flowing and understandable, and it's an easy read. The novel is based on a British woman POW in "Malaya" in WW2, meeting another POW who risks his life for her, and gets killed. Or so you think. Years later, they meet - I think...I'm almost there.
Nevil is JUICY!!!
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