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Miscellaneous quotes from current reads or past faves, as well as to-reads culled from friends' recommendations, blogs, podcasts, etc. A running answer to the question: "What're you reading?"
Currently reading
The Dante Club
The Famished Road
Kingdom Come
The City and the City
Open City: A Novel
The Slippage: A Novel
Please Step Back
Blindness / Seeing
Voices (Annals of the Western Shore, #2)
I'm enjoying Le Guin's writing style - it's been many years since I've read anything by her. She has a wonderful ear for words and for names of people/places, producing almost lyrical passages.However, I find it unacceptable in a story rated as young adult and targeted to the '11 and up' crowd, to have such explicit and multiple mentions of rape in the story. Such mentions are critical to explain the main character's environment and personality, but there are ways of alluding to such things in a way that a child reader who doesn't know of such things doesn't have to learn about them in such a blunt and direct way. Other readers will certainly get the idea.
