Sunday, August 16, 2009

Wah

Really pathetic, but the most recent book took more than a month. In my defense I've been having fun, it was thick, not that engaging, and I was kind of reading 2 books. But anyways, on the point that it was thick, really annoying, I hated lugging it around with me anywhere where I might read it. Only reading tiny books from now on. The book was Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I got it at Costco, probably before a trip or something, a long time ago. It just looked kind of cool. But I mean..it was kind of cool in a way, but unfortunately it was one of those books that focuses on like 20 different stories at once, and only one of them was interesting- the one about the medieval French girl who makes potions and rides ponies and swordfights and lives in a castle and stuff. Stuff I like. The others were just, a lot were irellevant to the plot. They were well researched and historically accurate but they took a lot away from the main story which had the potential to be good. It was just kind of poorly written, with bad similes or something. Kind of idealistic. Bad editing too, I found some really obvious typos and grammar mistakes. And normally when they sell British books in America, don't they change some of the words- like 'boot' of a car? Well they didn't. Anyways, I learned my lesson, no buying books at Costco. I get it! I'm definitely in a classic literature mood after that mess, so I expect that for the rest of the summer. Later.