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Nov 17

Putting Cirque du Freak to the side…

…so you all know, if by chance you actually follow what I’m reading, I didn’t finish Cirque du Freak book 7… I just decided to pick something else up while I wait for money to buy rest of the series online. x.x Or at Barnes & Noble, since Borders apparently refuses to stock again :(

When I went down to Chicago to meet Angie Sage, to support the bookstore, I ended up picking up Slam by Nick Hornby.

I’m only 87 pages in, but I’m enjoying it immensely. It’s done first person, which is either really good or just bomb. Hornby knows what he’s doing, and having a slightly psycho narrator (he talks to a poster, and thinks the poster talks back) is a lot of fun. Sam is a smart, fun narrator who is able to look at things both emotionally and objectively, and the mix of the two is interesting. It’s also cool how it’s written from the future, so you get the occasional break where he says stuff like “If only I had known then…”

Is there a term for that? When it’s written as a reflective flashback? (Or is that the term? Haha)

Anyways, it’s a lot of fun and I should probably go to bed (it’s 5am…) so that I can get up tomorrow and read some more of it :-)

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