Comments on: 1 of 15: “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” by Daniyal Mueenuddin

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:30:29 +0000

That’s too funny, GD, because I almost included Lowboy on my list. I decided that reference might be too extreme–she’s certainly more with it than Lowboy, and the story isn’t as jagged as that.

Ahh. Another paper. I have five or six abstracts (every time I have a paper idea, I write an abstract so I can keep moving ahead on my current project). I’ll just have to add this one!

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:25:41 +0000

I took the easy road for day 1, and read a quick graphic novel: http://www.newcenturyreading.com/2010/04/the-1515-projectday-1.html

By: ChristineMM

ChristineMM — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:42:13 +0000

My book for day 1 is “Sweater Quest” a nonfiction book about knitting which I blogged about here:

http://thethinkingmother.blogspot.com/2010/04/15-15-15-book-and-blogging-challenge.html

(I’m all squared away on the dates and the way to leave comments now. Thanks!)

By: girldetective

girldetective — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:18:05 +0000

SFP, Everything Ravaged is yellow, and that’s how I remember them, but they were similiar in style and while both were short, they didn’t feel particularly “fast” to me.

By: girldetective

girldetective — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:56:37 +0000

Kate, it sounds also like she’s a female counterpart to Lowboy. The wounded protagonist trying to find herself/her birthright sounds very archetypal to me, though perhaps turning the Joseph Campbell hero idea on its head by making it a heroine. The handicapped hero/ine–definitely sounds like there’s a paper in that.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:18:24 +0000

Not quite a book, but I read a Joyce Carol Oates short story from the New Yorker. “I.D.” at

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/03/29/100329fi_fiction_oates

was a compelling short story, which is pretty much how I like Oates. I did find her teenage character familiar after reading Miles from Nowhere, and Andromeda Klein, and The White Darkness. Given that Oates has used this type of character in the past, it’s tough to see who owes what to who, but I think at this point it’s a definite type. The main character is a teenage girl with injury/bad eye/bad hearing/troubles with reality. She is taken out of school to ID a woman’s body who may or may not have been her mother. Certainly worth reading.

And baby crying, that’s my fiction review of the day!

By: Jessica Snell

Jessica Snell — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:45:35 +0000

I read “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, which I’ve been wanting to get through for forever. Thanks for the push towards plowing through my TBR pile!

http://churchyear.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-1-of-15-vindication-of-rights-of.html

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:43:30 +0000

I read An Expert in Murder by NIcola Upson, as you may have noticd when you checked out the Saturday Review. It’s about a fictional Josephine Tey becoming involved in murder at the theater.

http://www.semicolonblog.com/?p=9851

By: Inquirer

Inquirer — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:21:08 +0000

1 of 15 … The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Oh, I liked this little book. I liked the writing. I liked the characters. I might even read it again and take more time with it.

http://alwayschasingboys.blogspot.com/2010/04/oh-but-i-didnt-want-to-like-it.html

By: SFP

SFP — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:29:01 +0000

The title of this one runs into Everything Ravaged in my mind as well; in fact, I can’t remember which one it was I saw on the library shelves. Still, I’m interested since they’re short stories. But not for this project. Reading stories slows me down ever so much.

Here’s my link:
http://pagesturned.blogspot.com/2010/04/george-gissings-sleeping-fires.html