My sister’s in town, and we’re about to be off for $1 bowling!  But there’re a couple of things I wanted to mention.

First, the new edition of Estella’s Revenge is up. Go check it out-lots of good articles and interviews, and a chance to win An Infamous Army! (Because we all need more Napoleonic lit in our lives)

Also, I recently finished the second volume of the Sandman graphic novel series: The Doll’s House. It was much, much, much better than volume one, so thanks to everyone who encouraged me not to give up! The story really got five stars this time (the ‘cereal’ convention was such awesome black humour), what dropped it to four was the presentation…I still haven’t gotten used to the colours and the weird drawing style yet (somtimes the main girl’s face looked like a guy’s). That’s just a personal thing, though, and hopefully by volume nine I’ll have acclimated.

I also read The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. While I’ll certainly give Fitzgerald another chance, since a lot of bloggers really like her, I really didn’t like this book. It’s short enough to really be a novella, and for the first three-quarters I enjoyed getting to know all to the quirky characters of a small coastal town. But the ending was so dreary it took all the joy out of it. As a reader, the super-dreary endings make me not like a book at all, regardless of literary merit. I’ve never pretended to have any more aspirations!

Finally, as far as Never Let Me Go, while I did (obviously) really like it, I wouldn’t say it’s quite as good as Remains of the Day. Close, but not quite. Just to let people know, so their expectations aren’t too high!