2009 Reading #7
Jan. 21st, 2009 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snurri1. Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer.
6. The Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks.
7. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. (Reread.) I try to mix an omnibus or a multi-book series into my reading schedule regularly; this one includes this book, Kidnapped, Weir of Hermiston, The Master of Ballantrae, The Black Arrow and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I never read Stevenson as a kid, but I've read Treasure Island and The Black Arrow in recent years; I thought the former was worth reading again. I'm just not sure what I think of it, still. It's not that I didn't enjoy it; plot-wise it's well done, if a bit herk-a-jerk at times. But character-wise, there's Long John Silver and not much else. I'm halfway through Kidnapped, and so far David in that book is nearly indistinguishable from Jim in Treasure Island. I know, I know, I should turn my brain off and enjoy it. I'm trying!
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
5. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer.
6. The Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks.
7. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. (Reread.) I try to mix an omnibus or a multi-book series into my reading schedule regularly; this one includes this book, Kidnapped, Weir of Hermiston, The Master of Ballantrae, The Black Arrow and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I never read Stevenson as a kid, but I've read Treasure Island and The Black Arrow in recent years; I thought the former was worth reading again. I'm just not sure what I think of it, still. It's not that I didn't enjoy it; plot-wise it's well done, if a bit herk-a-jerk at times. But character-wise, there's Long John Silver and not much else. I'm halfway through Kidnapped, and so far David in that book is nearly indistinguishable from Jim in Treasure Island. I know, I know, I should turn my brain off and enjoy it. I'm trying!
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Date: 2009-01-22 01:35 am (UTC)Seriously, dude. Just enjoy the language. I re-read Kidnapped just this past year and really enjoyed it a lot. It made me want to go back to Treasure Island again. The last time I read it was to a group of pre-schoolers during nap time.
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Date: 2009-01-23 12:06 am (UTC)