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April books
May. 8th, 2008 12:44 amFun Home by Alison Bechdel
Autobiographical graphic novel by the writer/artist of Dykes to Watch Out For, the ubiquitous gay and lesbian comic strip. It revolves around her relationship with her closeted father and her own coming out, moving between her childhood spent in the family funeral home and the museum-piece house her father painstakingly restored, and her college years where she explored her developing sexuality. An excellent book all around.
The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree
The Wrath of Mugarath by Holly Black
The last two Spiderwick books, re-read because we saw the movie last month. Cute, fun books that will definitely stay in the pile of books for K to read in a few years.
Meet the Austins by Madeline L'Engle
One of the few non-Wrinkle in Time series L'Engle books I read as a child. A thoughtful book about a large, close-knit family dealing with an unexpected addition. A childhood favorite, although I haven't read it in years
Grand Passion by Jayne Ann Krentz
Jayne Ann Krentz writes basically the same romance: modern day setting (usually the Pacific Northwest), male romantic lead is some sort of emotionally deadened, yet extremely successful sort who has all sorts of passion and emotional hurt hiding beneath the surface just waiting to be released, female lead is successful in her own, smaller and more personal way and emotionally open and mature. Usually has an eccentric family or community of friends who are all artistic types, although the lead herself tends to be more practical. Together, their physical and emotional chemistry is too powerful for them to resist. Not exactly great literature, but a quick, thoughtless read that's reasonably literate and amusing.
(When she writes as Amanda Quick, it's Regency England, with the emotionally unavailable lord and the lower-born bluestocking woman who is too involved with her intellectual pursuits to worry about fashion. Otherwise pretty much the same)
Um, I'm sure there's more than this, but I'm darned if I can remember.
Autobiographical graphic novel by the writer/artist of Dykes to Watch Out For, the ubiquitous gay and lesbian comic strip. It revolves around her relationship with her closeted father and her own coming out, moving between her childhood spent in the family funeral home and the museum-piece house her father painstakingly restored, and her college years where she explored her developing sexuality. An excellent book all around.
The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree
The Wrath of Mugarath by Holly Black
The last two Spiderwick books, re-read because we saw the movie last month. Cute, fun books that will definitely stay in the pile of books for K to read in a few years.
Meet the Austins by Madeline L'Engle
One of the few non-Wrinkle in Time series L'Engle books I read as a child. A thoughtful book about a large, close-knit family dealing with an unexpected addition. A childhood favorite, although I haven't read it in years
Grand Passion by Jayne Ann Krentz
Jayne Ann Krentz writes basically the same romance: modern day setting (usually the Pacific Northwest), male romantic lead is some sort of emotionally deadened, yet extremely successful sort who has all sorts of passion and emotional hurt hiding beneath the surface just waiting to be released, female lead is successful in her own, smaller and more personal way and emotionally open and mature. Usually has an eccentric family or community of friends who are all artistic types, although the lead herself tends to be more practical. Together, their physical and emotional chemistry is too powerful for them to resist. Not exactly great literature, but a quick, thoughtless read that's reasonably literate and amusing.
(When she writes as Amanda Quick, it's Regency England, with the emotionally unavailable lord and the lower-born bluestocking woman who is too involved with her intellectual pursuits to worry about fashion. Otherwise pretty much the same)
Um, I'm sure there's more than this, but I'm darned if I can remember.
