A funny thing happened on the way to the forum....
My plan is to read a book a week.
Now, I knew this would happen eventually. Particularly after reading a book as dense as Whitehead's , I am geared to some heavy reading. I have generally read a lot of non-fiction, so I am used to "nutritional density."
Well, I blasted through GG in a day. I didn't even try that hard. Not that there is anything wrong with the book!
I found GG to be engaging, funny and witty, and just a little bit off the deep end. Von Ziegesar writes in a great conversational manner, and that is part of what makes it easy to simply fly through this book.
GG is really geared to the early "Sex in the City" set. Post high-school teens and early 20s. The setting is Upper East Side New York, the people are lovely (and stoned off their rockers.) There is almost no nutritional value to their lives; they are chasing a world that lives just for them. The characters are believable but shallow, but that is ok, because that is how they are suppose to be.
So I am ready for a new book a week early!
My brain trust has suggested I move up "A Great and Terrible Beauty," by Libba Bray. It is slightly still in the YA section, so it should also move along a little fast. I've been on a waiting list for the eBook that originally I had slotted next, "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle." Hopefully I'll be able to access it soon, and we'll keep this list moving along.
Also... if anyone has any book suggestions, I'm reading whatever is thrown my way. I am already into a few that I would never have picked up off a shelf... seriously, I would not have picked Gossip Girl, but I am glad to have read it, for a glimpse into a world where the only thing that I have in common is we're all only humans!
So... suggest more!!
Cheers!
Scott
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