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Finally getting back into the saddle… redux (Reading meme)
Finished:
The things I didn’t say by Fiona Fornasier. Piper, 17, Australian, has Selective Mutism. I hate the label Selective Mutism - as if I choose not to speak, like a child who refuses to eat broccoli. I've used up every dandelion wish since I was ten wishing for the power to speak whenever I want to. I'm starting to wonder if there are enough dandelions. This was a charming, sweet read. I picked it up because I wanted to learn more about how it felt to have SM, and how to function in the wider world, and it was good for that. The first two-thirds were excellent, the last third fell into blink-worthy melodrama, but I still read it in about two days, and I’m glad I did.
Currently reading:
Magic dirt by Sean Williams. (The best of Sean Williams short stories of the 1990s). Finally unearthing books from my room, and actually giving some of them a go. Read two so far, and they’ve been a nice way to ease into bed of a night. The second story had a particularly good opening set up.
Both of them have had those light moments of "…this was written by a guy" feel about them in the way they mention women characters, but not in a way that makes me want to stop reading, just in a way that I might want to remember for my own writing.
Pirate queen by Morgan Llywelyn. A kid’s historical short novel about the Irish pirate queen Granuaile vs the queen of England, Elizabeth I. The writing is present tense and wooden and frankly strange, but Ganuaile is So Great. SO GREAT. Given it’s a Children Will Learn novel I really want a Gaelic pronunciation guide, and possibly a sailing glossary while they’re at it. I’m persisting with it, because short and also she is SO GREAT.
Up next:
Mandy by Julie Andrews is in fact allegedly in the post!
The things I didn’t say by Fiona Fornasier. Piper, 17, Australian, has Selective Mutism. I hate the label Selective Mutism - as if I choose not to speak, like a child who refuses to eat broccoli. I've used up every dandelion wish since I was ten wishing for the power to speak whenever I want to. I'm starting to wonder if there are enough dandelions. This was a charming, sweet read. I picked it up because I wanted to learn more about how it felt to have SM, and how to function in the wider world, and it was good for that. The first two-thirds were excellent, the last third fell into blink-worthy melodrama, but I still read it in about two days, and I’m glad I did.
Currently reading:
Magic dirt by Sean Williams. (The best of Sean Williams short stories of the 1990s). Finally unearthing books from my room, and actually giving some of them a go. Read two so far, and they’ve been a nice way to ease into bed of a night. The second story had a particularly good opening set up.
Both of them have had those light moments of "…this was written by a guy" feel about them in the way they mention women characters, but not in a way that makes me want to stop reading, just in a way that I might want to remember for my own writing.
Pirate queen by Morgan Llywelyn. A kid’s historical short novel about the Irish pirate queen Granuaile vs the queen of England, Elizabeth I. The writing is present tense and wooden and frankly strange, but Ganuaile is So Great. SO GREAT. Given it’s a Children Will Learn novel I really want a Gaelic pronunciation guide, and possibly a sailing glossary while they’re at it. I’m persisting with it, because short and also she is SO GREAT.
Up next:
Mandy by Julie Andrews is in fact allegedly in the post!
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