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SheriC

Portable Magic

Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.

Currently reading

A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Whisper Network
Chandler Baker
Progress: 54 %
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Progress: 28 %
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Carolyn Keene
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Gary Raisor, Richard Chizmar, Al Sarrantonio, Avram Davidson
Progress: 70/512 pages
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Peanuts Classics
Charles M. Schulz
Progress: 66 %
The Bungalow Mystery
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Bungalow Mystery #3
Carolyn Keene
Progress: 192/192 pages
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Russell H. Tandy, Mildred Benson, Carolyn Keene

2 AM at the Cat's Pajamas - 22%

2 a.m. at The Cat's Pajamas (Audio) - Marie-Helene Bertino

I'm not sure how to feel about this one so far. The prose is so packed full of metaphors and similes and oddly chosen adjectives, that it's a little distracting, as though the author is jumping up and down with hands waving in the air and shouting, "look, look, look at me!".

 

But at the same time, it works. 

An argument of cables

An aggressively flowerboxed building

 

Reading this for Square 6: Sinterklaas / St. Martin’s Day / Krampusnacht: A story involving children