I’m doing this week’s Bookish Thoughts (hosted by the lovely Christine) as a tweet. Except instead of 140 characters or less, it’s 140 words or less. Starting from now.
1. Bob Dylan last night. Mellow.
2. Mid-semester exam looming. Stressed.
3. Mythbusters Live last week. Fun.
4. Hair cut today. As always, I referred my hairdresser to Kim Wilde. Blonde.
5. Kids footy and lacrosse finish this week = winter almost over. Relief.
6. Boden now available in Australia. Dangerous.
7. Reconnected with an old friend this week. Lovely.
8. Still re-reading Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend. Boring.
9. Have upped my swim distance with aim to join a (relaxed) squad. Planning.
10. Book Week costume prep. Busy.
Great list. Number 10. Intriguing.
I sent one 13-Storey Treehouse (by Andy Griffiths – that’s what he’s making in the picture) off to school; a Timmy Failure; and Eliza Boom (by Emily Gale) and a Peekay (from The Power of One). I LOVE Book Week…
The Little Friend, yes what is it about it? Parts of it are magnificent, I reckon, and other parts, most of it after a while, stultifying. I don’t get it. It’s like I’m missing something with that book. Have read it twice, again recently wanting to ‘work out why I didn’t get it the first time’ and failed again.
Do you know what I think is off? There’s no sense of time (and Tartt is usually so good at the time and place thing). So in The Little Friend you’re getting a Mockingbird vibe and yet there’s references to backyard meth labs… I’ll battle on (I’m like that) but starting to wonder if I ever actually finished it the first time round.
I haven’t read anything by Donna Tartt….I do like the idea of mellow, though (No. 1). Thanks for visiting my blog.
Tartt’s first book, A Secret History, and her latest (The Goldfinch) are BRILLIANT. Read those and give The Little Friend a miss!
I had thought to read My Little Friend, now I won’t. No time for boring things. My Bookish Thoughts
Give it a miss (but do read The Goldfinch and A Secret History if you haven’t already done so!).
The Little Friend is my least favorite. And I’m still a little jealous of your Bob Dylan experience, the show I went to last summer was huge and decidedly not mellow.
You know I tried to get started on The Little Friend before The Goldfinch was released and simply couldn’t get into it. I have only read The Goldfinch by Tartt and I loved it but I’m not especially drawn into reading her older works…maybe one day 😉