Good news: EDub is back to running around with only a mild limp and I can swallow after only one day of antibiotics and I don't have a fever anymore. Thank goodness.
Faithful Place is by far my favorite Tana French novel. First, Frank Mackey, the detective who is drug back to his family after they find a body, uses the expression sweet fuck-all at least every other page. This must be some Irish thing, but I may start using it because I like it so much. The book was definitely more of a page turner than the other two. At least once, I said, I can't go to sleep now and read several more pages. I think reviewing a book is a delicate balance of several high quality questions. Did it put me to sleep? No. Would I put this in the best book I ever read category? No. Did it change my life? No. Was I so excited I didn't sleep because I had to keep reading? No. Did I feel like it challenged my thinking or made me thing about deep issues? No. Was I upset, angry or wanting to throw the book at any point? No.
But I liked it. I kept reading it. I would read the author again. Like when I rate wines in my wine app that I would buy again, but aren't memorable for any particular reason, it gets a 7/10.
Oh woe is me because I'm in a bit of book doldrums right now...I don't know what to read and nothing looks interesting. I've read my book club books for the next three months. I read all the books I was excited to read over the summer. I'm more interested in the franzenfreude than Freedom itself. I'm reluctant to read Mockingjay because I can't find anything that says it isn't science fiction and the cover definitely looks like science fiction. I'd like to read a French book, but the only things I have around here are the cast offs from literary classes of days gone by and lord knows those things can't be interesting because I didn't read them the first time. The only French books you can download from Amazon.com are the same literary masterpieces by the same dead Frenchmen. Amazon.fr and amazon.ca just send me back to amazon.com. And I can't figure out if the fnac.com will let me download. (Stupid fnac.com!) In short, I am whiny about having no books to read. Next I'm going to throw myself on the floor and scream until Randi and Earl steal me the next best book I ever read or they lick me so much I have to get back up. Whichever comes first.
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