This is a look at the
books I’m planning to read in April, with a bit of a synopsis of the books. It’ll
be fun.
All the people love
these books. Also Patrick Rothfuss is really funny. Says the girl who hasn’t
read any of his books. I follow his reviews on Goodreads though, he is
hilarious. I really love epic fantasy and I feel like this will be good for
that. It’s about magic and that. It’s about a boy named Kvothe who becomes a
notorious wizard and wreaks havoc on the land. It sounds amazing, so I’m
excited.
For some reason I
like books about performers, because they’re awesome. This is a book I’ve
wanted to read for a while. It’s about a young woman named Nan King who lives
in Whitstable at the end of the Victorian era. She falls in love with a
cross-dressing performer named Kitty and when Kitty is called up to London Nan
goes with her as her dresser and lover. Then Nan stars putting on trousers too
and joins the act. Then Kitty breaks her heart and then goes out like a butch
dude getting laid. It sounds awesome. So I’m going to read that.
I really like weird
science. I don’t know why. Alex Boese has written a couple of books on odd
things humans do to animals and other humans. He has also written a book on
urban legends. I’ve only read one of them, but I really liked it. This is about
weird experiments people have done in the name of science. Self-appendectomies,
reviving hens through respiration, and of course, electrifying sheep, it sounds
amazing.
There could never be
enough Neil Gaiman as far as I’m concerned. I’ve had this book on my shelves
for a while and it’s time to read it I feel. A boy who is half-fairy goes to
find a fallen star who turns out to be a woman, with a hot temper. There are
witches, elves, lions, unicorns, ships who sail the skies, it sounds amazing. I
am looking forward to this.
Cause I like
fairytales I need to read more fairytales. Also, you know, I’ve read the first
one. It was amazing. The books are about a young girl named September. She
travels to Fairyland in the first book and then comes back home at the end of
the book (spoiler alert). In this one she gets to come back. She sees that the
magic and the shadows of the inhabitants are being sapped away to the Fairyland
Below where a new queen, named Halloween, lives. And this queen is September’s
shadow. And she doesn’t want to give back the other shadows.
So I had to take an
English class in my last semester, and we got this list of books we should read
and there was a Thomas Pynchon book on that list. After reading it I was
severely confused and I wasn’t entirely sure what had just happened, so I
thought I’d try again. It’s a mystery novel, but it also seems sort of weird,
so my regular aversion to mystery will have to shut up a little. It’s about a
man named Doc Sportello who comes out of his marijuana haze and meets his
ex-girlfriend who tells him about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer
she’s in love with. It sounds like a lot of fun.
