RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[falkner]

What are you reading? Are you reading?

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[pedanther]

I've just started reading A Tale of Two Cities, which I've been meaning to try for years. I knew the famous opening sentence and the famous closing sentence, and almost nothing about what happens between the two.

I'm also a little way into an anthology called The Night Marchers and other Oceanian stories, which I'm not getting on with. My impression from the cover was that it was a collection of folk tales, but it turns out to be a mix of straight folk tale retellings, riffs on folk tales, and original stories inspired by folk tales. I would have preferred if it had settled on one thing to be, because reading a telling of an unfamiliar folk tale is different from reading a story that assumes you're already familiar with the folk tale it's inspired by, and I keep getting wrong-footed.