Hello,
Just a quick note to let everyone know I am writing this from the lovely Riad dar Maia, AKA my hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, where I have just landed for a combination of academic conference + really freakin’ needed vacation. (What proportion those two things are occurring in is something best left undiscussed on this quasi-public forum… but who knew there were such perks to being a demographer? The International Population Conference is high in my esteem already, and it doesn’t even start until Sunday!)
The only YA/kidlit I brought were Jennifer Donnelly’s THE TEA ROSE and Phillip Pullman’s THE SUBTLE KNIFE — I still haven’t read past THE GOLDEN COMPASS! — but, in a break from form, I brought tons of adult fiction. Almost finished THE CITY & THE CITY on the plane — now I can do it in a cafe in Morocco’s city square!
I probably won’t be posting much, in other words, although you never know. Frankly I haven’t been posting much anyway of late, and it’s possible this can I stress again how MUCH-NEEDED this is vacation will be just the thing to get me back into book chatting…
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September 25, 2009 at 11:42 am
ADULT lit? What a concept! Hope you’re havin’ fun.
September 28, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Jealous! Katie went there a year or so ago and loved it.
Good reading list too. The subtle knife is excellent (the adult soul suckers are freaky!) and the city and the city is hands down phenomenal.
Have a great time!
September 28, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Sadako: RIGHT? Who is this mature reader?!
Jesse: Liked THE CITY & THE CITY very much — loved it at first, wasn’t totally sure about the ending, but very glad to have read it. May post on it later — internet is a bit iffy here, though.
I’m now reading SENSE & SENSIBILITY — I’ve never read it!!!! — and loooooooooooooooooove.
September 29, 2009 at 10:23 am
Enjoy your Jane Austen and your vacation!
September 29, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I began reading THE TEA ROSE on the very day you posted this! Hilariously, I did not realize it was young adult.
Jane Austen is quite special. I’m sort of reading PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES right now, but I like the cover much more than the actual book.
Have fun!
September 30, 2009 at 9:13 am
Grrrr…. Apologies, guys, I’m trying to post but WordPress is having issues… hopefully resolved soon!
September 30, 2009 at 1:45 pm
iloveamandabynes (who, for everyone else’s info, is my long-last camp roommate!): You know, now that you mention it, I’m not sure whether I knew that THE TEA ROSE is YA, or just assumed… but knowing that you’re reading it may move it to the top of my list (the other contender is my first Georgette Heyer novel! Classic romances, oh yeah, baby), so we can discuss.