Third Week Wrap Up

This week I read four books. This seems to be my average lately.

The first was Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. This is a short classic of gay literature. Although its only about 200 pages, it still took me a while to read. I kept stopping after a chapter or two to digest what I'd read. The prose is beautiful and descriptive and the characters are well drawn out. However, I kept finding myself not wanting to pick it back up. It might've been the language or just that it was slow and not keeping my attention. So for the first time, I didn't rate a book. I had initially picked it out for un-slumpathon (long past, but I still wanted to read it) but it was definitely not a fast book.

Then I picked up O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. This was another short pick that took me four days to read. It was a historical fiction about immigrants living on the plains in "frontier time." However, this was boring and the pacing was weird. Additionally, when something traumatic happens to some characters, the main protagonist blames the victims (who she claims to love). This left a sour note in my mouth. This fulfilled my "History of Magic" prompt. I will not be picking up the rest of the trilogy. I gave it 2 stars.

The next book I finished was Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This was for the "Divination prompt of reading about a prophecy." This was hilarious. I was laughing out loud at some of the jokes. The premise is that an angel and a demon band together to try to thwart Armageddon. I've never read anything by Terry Pratchett and only one book by Gaiman but together they were a powerhouse. It definitely made me want to pick up more stuff they've written. I gave it 4 stars.

Lastly, I picked up Charlie Bone and the Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo. (the second in the series.) This was a fun and easy read in which we get to know the characters a little better. Plus it involved time travel. I liked it and gave it 3 stars.


I keep telling myself I'm going to slow down but that hasn't happened yet.

6 O.W.L.s completed so far and I still have 10 days left to get a few more finished.