reading wednesday
Jun. 7th, 2017 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelights• What are you reading?
Signal to Noise, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, for SF book group
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Gentleman, by Forrest Leo. Funny and charming, but I think the blurb that mentions Wodehouse and Wilde does this book a disservice by making you think about how much funnier and more charming it would like to be. I think the dialogue worked better when it was rattled off on stage; on the page, it is a bit tedious to have characters explaining to each other what the narrative voice has already made clear to the reader. Still, it has an excellent bookstore, a Victorian club for inventors, a gentlemanly Satan, and a lost wife who has all the manly virtues her silly husband lacks.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, by Amy Schumer, for Tawanda book group.
Signal to Noise, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, for SF book group
• What did you recently finish reading?
The Gentleman, by Forrest Leo. Funny and charming, but I think the blurb that mentions Wodehouse and Wilde does this book a disservice by making you think about how much funnier and more charming it would like to be. I think the dialogue worked better when it was rattled off on stage; on the page, it is a bit tedious to have characters explaining to each other what the narrative voice has already made clear to the reader. Still, it has an excellent bookstore, a Victorian club for inventors, a gentlemanly Satan, and a lost wife who has all the manly virtues her silly husband lacks.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, by Amy Schumer, for Tawanda book group.