I'm having a book crisis. I currently have both The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Winter's Tale ebooks checked out from the virtual library. If I dive into the former, inevitably I will then want to keep on reading the other two books in the trilogy, and with their length it is pretty likely that the latter will have already needed to be returned.
There doesn't seem to be a huge demand for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books right now, so I could just read Winter's Tale first and then go read those after. However, the reviews for Winter's Tale are really concerning me (along with its hefty page count). From what I have gathered, it is overridden with endless, lengthy descriptions and little actual plot or event-happening. This might not be as big of a deal for a novel half its length, but at 748 pages, I'm just not sure I have what it takes to endure that kind of writing for that long.
So I'm still trying to decide, figuring I will read a few pages of Winter's Tale to see how it feels and then go from there. Has anyone out there read either (or both) of these? If so, any guidance would be appreciated.
I must confess, today is largely being used as a lazy, relaxing day catching up on all kinds of TV stuff I haven't been watching. Every weekend lately has felt like go, go, go and yesterday was non-stop for me from the second I got up until 8pm and it just wiped me out. So we actually slept in a bit today and have been seriously bumming around all morning. Somehow it's noon already, and Ilya still has to go put in a few hours at work and I have to do some laundry and before we know it, the weekend will be over. :(
I did end up watching The Road last night. Ilya's brother was over last night and they were watching whatever guy stuff downstairs, so I was upstairs and figuring out what I wanted to do. The book dilemma wasn't even close to solved and I remembered having seen that The Road was on Netflix Instant and decided to give it a whirl. It was definitely as bleak and depressing as the book, but as is almost always the case, the book is a million times better and the movie, while true to the book for the majority of the time, still ended up Hollywoodifying it.
Well, time to really crack down and figure out which book to commit to before the day is over and there's no time to read anything. I hope everyone out there is enjoying the weekend.
Terms of the Duel
New-Year's resolutions have a pronounced and infamous tendency to fall by the wayside by, say, the 1st of February. Perhaps, however, that is because they are resolved upon, adhered to, and discarded, by solitary individuals. Perhaps what's needed is some good old-fashioned competitive spirit.
The participants:
- Ilya Gandelman - desk jockey from 9-5:30, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, writing, reading, watching tv/movies (very selective in this area!), eating Meredith's delicious food, playing with Gizmo, spending time with family and friends.
- Meredith Gandelman - also a desk jockey, from 9-6, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, reading, watching tv/movies, cooking/baking for Ilya (and others), snuggling/playing with Gizmo and spending time with family and friends.
The resolutions:
- To read more books
- To watch less television
- To spend less money (by reading library books, and by making our way through unread volumes gathering dust on the shelves)
- To spend more quality time together with a shared interest
Therefore, the challenge proposed: who can read the most books in a year? On one side the wife, on the other the husband: who'll get the most volumes under her or his belt before 2015?
The rules:
- Books will be chosen independently. Any genre or subject is eligible.
- No second thoughts once starting a book. An uncompleted book is not counted, except of course as time lost. We shall have to choose carefully; and if a book seems to be disappointing, best to soldier on through to the end!
- A 300-page minimum. However, books briefer than 300 pages may be combined with others to count as one entry in the Duel.
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