I’m baaaaack! After so much writing I couldn’t really post. I also took a whole day off! Seriously! And I’m taking all Mondays off from now on. I cannot write 7 days a week just because it’s fun and I work from home. All work, no play, makes me very crabby and gives me a headache, or however the saying goes. <g>
So, after finishing ANNIE ON MY MIND by Nancy Garden, I realized that it’s unfortunately not nearly as dated as one would hope. And if that doesn’t make sense to you, too bad, you’ll have to read it. I liked it a lot this time around too. Unfortunately, I think it could happen exactly like it did then, now. I was kind of hoping for change…
Anyway, on my day off, I spent the whole time on the porch. It was a cool 75-80 degrees, with a slight breeze, which is the coolest it’s been in weeks and weeks. I read Pip Granger’s THE WIDOW GINGER, which is a sequel to NOT ALL TARTS ARE APPLE. Now, I have not really been able to figure out if this is YA or not, although that’s where the library has it, it’s not marked YA. So…it doesn’t really seem like YA to me, but what do I know?
I LOVED both of these books, but I am a bit partial to British stuff, so if you’re not, you might not like it. And you also have to have a very good understanding of British slang to slog through it (although there is a glossery in the back, it only covers the basics and I never remember to check for those until I’m all done anyway!). I would say, even with my excellent knowledge of the British English language (after living there and watching lots of Brit Coms and British movies and reading Harry Potter in the British form), I probably missed at least 25% of the humor/meaning and probably another 25% I gleaned through context alone. There are, unfortunately in a climactic moment, a fair number of mistakes in this edition too. Some spelling, but one where they call the character by the name of another character who’s not even in the neighborhood, let alone the room! That always takes me out of a good climactic moment! Calling the wrong name, and all…<g>
Okay…time to go watch baseball. I’m now mostly reading WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL, although, one of the first things the author does is ask you to go get your top three books and pile them in front of you, and now I’m tempted to start reading PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (the other two, at this moment in time, of course, are BETSY AND THE GREAT WORLD and ROUND THE BEND).
Go Cubbies!
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