Monday I turned my grades in and was officially free! It's been wonderful and the books I've read have rocked my docs, so I'm here to tell you about them in the hopes that they will, one day, rock your docs as well.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
I love Robin McKinley, and I love vampire fiction, so how could I go wrong? What I find most interesting about this is I see the prequel coming. Like with her book the Blue Sword, which alluded to prior events (Aerin, the dragon killer) subsequently explained by the publication of The Hero and the Crown, I am curious about Onyx Blaise (her dad), what his story is, how he met her mom, and what happened in the Wars that made the family, especially Sunshine's grandmother, disappear. Hopefully, McKinley's working on that right now (goodness, how old is she? I hope she writes books forever!).
City of Glass by Paul Auster
A wonderful piece of post-modern fiction that is a spiritual detective story (think I Heart Huckabees) that deals with doubles, layers of identity, and enough walking to drive Michel de Certeau (one of the more interesting city theorists that I read in class this summer) to delirium. Plus very interesting thoughts on the Tower of Babel and language. If the fall of man precipitated the fall of language (think Lacan), would regaining true language return us to paradise?
2 comments:
Hi Sarah. This is unrelated to your post, and for that I apologize. But I wanted to tell you that I finally got the new Snow Patrol, and I love it. When they played "Chasing Cars" on Grey's Anatomy, I was crying like a little school girl.
Plus I added a link to your blog!
Huzzah, I love Snow Patrol and I love it when other people love what I love too (as long as they're cool, which you totally are)!
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