Today my reading is taking me to Baldwin Hills in Southern California. I occasionally leave Baldwin Hills though and go into Fairyland where the Queen of the Fairies (Titania aka Mab) is being held in a glass jar by the King of the Fairies (Oberon). Puck appears once in awhile to stir things up among the humans, as fairies are wont to do. If you think this sounds a little bit like Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," you would be correct but I'm actually reading Magic Street by Orson Scott Card.
Join raidergirl3 at An Adventure in Reading and let her know where you are this Tuesday.
Orson Scott Card? Who would have "thuhk" he'd write something like that? Certainly not I, but he definitely is an interesting writer...I'm sure it's very enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteOops. Sorry. Should have been "thunk" (if I'm going to get it wrong, I should get it wrong right, huh?).
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Magic Street :) I hope you do too!
ReplyDeleteI'm "in" Florence, Italy, where The Monster of Florence takes place. It's an exciting true story of a serial killer, if you like that sort of thing. Maybe it's better to be in Southern California. :)
ReplyDeleteI just left modern day Fife, Scotland after finishing one book, and am currently 'Lotering With Intent' in 1949 London, with book by Muriel Sparks, a new author to me.
ReplyDeletejustareadingfool: I was aware that OSC writes for various genres, but this one did take me by surprise. I think he is doing surprisingly well with urban fantasy here.
ReplyDeletenymeth: I'm LOVING Magic Street! See my comment above to justareadingfool.
bellezza: I was just looking at Monster of Florence and it looks like it would be a pretty compelling read. Also sounded like it might scare the pants off of me.
jo: I just popped onto Amazon and read the synopsis for the Muriel Sparks book you mention. Sounds pretty good!
I just got done reading A Midsummer Night's Dream--so that was exactly what I was thinking! I'm in beautiful rural 1800 England right now, but I think I'm going to abandon it for something a little more fun (reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but am so burned out from work that I need something a little lighter).
ReplyDeleteTrish: You are right. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is not a light read at all. I liked it, but it was rather depressing to me.
ReplyDelete