Exactly! Fic is so easily at hand, and so fun, and so often offers bite-sized instant gratification, and I found it kind of alarming for a while there, how much fic I was reading. But I think I'm finding my way back to a good balance!
Seraphina is wonderful, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. As for The Picture of Dorian Gray, I didn't find it enormously engaging, but I'm glad I read it since it's such a classic. MUCH MORE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Maurice by E. M. Forster!
And btw, I *almost* got a chance to read The Brothers Lionheart... I picked it up and read the first couple chapters in the bookstore in Berlin where I needed to use up some book-buying credit before I moved away, but I didn't buy it because I figured I could always get it from the public library now that I'm back in the US... But they don't have it here!! Astrid Lindgren is so popular in Germany, I forgot that in the US she's basically just known for Pippi Longstocking and nothing else. What a pity.
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Date: 2015-01-18 02:26 am (UTC)Seraphina is wonderful, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. As for The Picture of Dorian Gray, I didn't find it enormously engaging, but I'm glad I read it since it's such a classic. MUCH MORE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Maurice by E. M. Forster!
And btw, I *almost* got a chance to read The Brothers Lionheart... I picked it up and read the first couple chapters in the bookstore in Berlin where I needed to use up some book-buying credit before I moved away, but I didn't buy it because I figured I could always get it from the public library now that I'm back in the US... But they don't have it here!! Astrid Lindgren is so popular in Germany, I forgot that in the US she's basically just known for Pippi Longstocking and nothing else. What a pity.