winter break reading

Over this winter break I read:

Anita Shreve -- forgot the title and the plot....

Julia Glass -- A Widower's Tale -- not bad, I liked the protagonist.

Joyce Maynard -- The Good Daughters -- two birthday sisters -- born on the same day in New Hampshire -- about halfway through I thought top myself: do I in fact care what will happen to these sisters and isn;t it obvious to everyone that they were switched at birth?  But there were further twists and the last 1/2 waqs more interesting than the first.

Scott Westerfield -- The Uglies.  I like postapocalyptic and dystopian fiction and this often pops up on lists.  Its appeal to an adult is less clear -- while I am sympathetic to the idea of a world that gives everyone plastic surgery at age 16 to make all equally beautiful, as a premise for dystopian fiction it is fairly slight.

David Wroblowski -- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle -- I quite liked this.  The dog stuff was compelling and most of the first 3/4 was really good.  And then I thought it fell apart.

I may have read something else -- I would have to check the bedside table....

A new blog!

For years I have said that I would start writing down what I have been reading and what I think of it.  But then I never do and now I can never remember what that book was with the guys in Florida who invented the new kind of amusement park or if I actually read that Anita Shreve book or not.  So here I will blog at least once a week about what I have been reading.