{"id":2012,"date":"2009-12-02T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2009-12-03T05:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:09:40","slug":"give-me-reading-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"give me reading advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading four books and none of them are really holding my interest (despite several of them being quite good):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Magic by the Lake<\/em> (Edward Eager) is the story of four siblings who end up vacationing next to a wishing lake. I&#8217;m nearly done with this sequel to <em>Half-Magic<\/em>, which I read seven years ago.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em>The Complete Persepolis<\/em> (Marjane Satrapi) is the famous graphic novel (is novel really the correct term when it&#8217;s a memoir?) of a girl growing up in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s. It&#8217;s excellent, but not really the sort of thing I can lose myself in.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em>The Sorceress<\/em> (Michael Scott) is the third book in the Nicholas Flamel series. I think this has the exact opposite problem of the graphic novel, in that I want to have the time just to read it straight through. Or I&#8217;m getting burnt out on the characters. Not sure which yet, really&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em>Merry, Merry Ghost<\/em> (Carolyn Hart) is the latest book I picked up from the library and, as you might guess, is a seasonal mystery with a dead woman as the protagonist sent to earth to serve as, essentially, a guardian angel. Again, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s just my state of mind or if I&#8217;m just not wowed by her writing, but I&#8217;m having a hard time getting into it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which one of them should I pull to the top of the pile? Or what should I be reading instead? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading four books and none of them are really holding my interest (despite several of them being quite good): Magic by the Lake (Edward Eager) is the story of four siblings who end up vacationing next to a wishing lake. 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