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Jul. 29th, 2003 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
decemberthirtyI finished Valencia, and I must admit that my opinion of it didn't change. Michelle Tea's style was engaging, and it was interesting to read about this cast of characters who are superficially quite similar to me, but lead lives that are so incredibly different than mine. All in all, however, I stand by the opinion that I expressed in my last post. The book came off as repugnantly self-indulgent.
After finishing Valenica, I didn't get started on my book club reading, primarily because Miss E. bought the book and promptly absconded with it to California. So I won't be able to get going on that until she returns. In the meantime, I decided to begin my annual re-reading of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series. I've been reading the series once a year for quite a few years, and every year the experience is different. For the past few years, I've been less than eager to get started, and consequently really dragged through the first book or two before finding that things picked up considerably in the last two books, making the whole experience worthwhile. This year, however, I actually experienced a strong craving to begin reading A Wizard of Earthsea, something that hasn't happened in years. And I'm loving it. The book is arousing in me the kind of emotions that I used to experience four or five years ago when I read it. I don't really know why this is happening, but I'm very happy about it. This is a book that means so much to me, and I'm glad to feel strongly about it again.
After finishing Valenica, I didn't get started on my book club reading, primarily because Miss E. bought the book and promptly absconded with it to California. So I won't be able to get going on that until she returns. In the meantime, I decided to begin my annual re-reading of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea series. I've been reading the series once a year for quite a few years, and every year the experience is different. For the past few years, I've been less than eager to get started, and consequently really dragged through the first book or two before finding that things picked up considerably in the last two books, making the whole experience worthwhile. This year, however, I actually experienced a strong craving to begin reading A Wizard of Earthsea, something that hasn't happened in years. And I'm loving it. The book is arousing in me the kind of emotions that I used to experience four or five years ago when I read it. I don't really know why this is happening, but I'm very happy about it. This is a book that means so much to me, and I'm glad to feel strongly about it again.
