On to better things. My third book in my quest is my second book by 18th Century gothic romance novelist Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest.
So far, I'm on page 24 and, once again, I'm loving Radcliffe's writing. And what a great premise. Right now, our characters are making camp at a deserted abbey in the middle of nowhere (well, France but its remotest parts).
It's nice to be reading something that makes me want to pick up the book again every time I"m forced to put it down.
Wonderful stuff./
Showing posts with label 18th Century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18th Century. Show all posts
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Still reading Radcliffe and already behind...
This isn't going so well. If I want to finish all 1123 books before I die, I have to average no more than five days per book. So far, book number one has taken me 10 days. And I'm not even half-way through.
If I take 10 days per book, that means I won't finish for at least 35 years. I'm not sure I have that long left to live.
Worse, this first book, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, is great. I'm loving it. It's dense, difficult reading with small print, tiny margins and more than four hundred pages. Very little dialogue and a lot of long descriptions.
But fantastic reading. You have to accept that Radcliffe's goal is to wring every ounce of tension from every situation but, once you have, it's just great.
And it's interesting to read something that is written about the 18th Century. I don't think the descriptions of Italy, its geography or the Catholic Church are very accurate but I'm not sure that matters either. It's a vivid, exciting novel.
I think, however, that I'll have to find something lighter for my second book before moving on to the second Radcliffe novel in our collection. Maybe a book about Gene Roddenberry?
If I take 10 days per book, that means I won't finish for at least 35 years. I'm not sure I have that long left to live.
Worse, this first book, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, is great. I'm loving it. It's dense, difficult reading with small print, tiny margins and more than four hundred pages. Very little dialogue and a lot of long descriptions.
But fantastic reading. You have to accept that Radcliffe's goal is to wring every ounce of tension from every situation but, once you have, it's just great.
And it's interesting to read something that is written about the 18th Century. I don't think the descriptions of Italy, its geography or the Catholic Church are very accurate but I'm not sure that matters either. It's a vivid, exciting novel.
I think, however, that I'll have to find something lighter for my second book before moving on to the second Radcliffe novel in our collection. Maybe a book about Gene Roddenberry?
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