Love this line
Jackie has complicated peroxide hair and she dresses like something out of a Tom Waits diner; that day she was wearing white pedal pushers and a red polka-dot top with ruffles in bewildering places.
— from Faithful Place, by Tana French
I don't know how I found this book. One day it was at the top of my stack. I didn't recognize the author or the title. The novel is a mystery, written by a woman in the voice of a man. It's set in Dublin, and it's 400 pages long. Nothing about this book said pick me.
I was resistant, but by page 20, at the Tom Waits reference, I was committed. A few chapters later, I was feeling a familiar and pleasant conundrum: I was eager to keep reading but didn't want the book to end.
What are you reading? Anything unexpected?
Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 6:00AM
Reader Comments (2)
I just read Roald Dahl's Matilda for my Children's Literature class. Surprisingly, I still got very into the story and read the whole book in one night. That was unexpected.
Excellent Whitney! Lately, I've been reading children's books, too. What other books are you reading for class? I recently read "Phantom Tollbooth" -- and loved it.