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Stopping for a Spell was a cute book. It could have been subtitled "How to use magic to get rid of annoying people". Three short stories, about very stubborn obnoxious annoying people invading the homes of plucky children, who then must find a way get rid of the annoyances. Nowhere near her best work. Recommended for kids, but not worth it for adult fans.
I am also giving up on The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, by Stuart Kelly. A fascinating topic, but he's going chronologically by author lifetime, and I barely got past ancient Greece. We will never read the lost works of Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Agathon, Aristophanes, Xenocles, Menander, or Callimachus, who have all blended together into one giant playwright in my head now (except for Sappho, who I loved previously, and Menander, because apparently they found one of his plays and it sucked). I'm just finding that I'm not particularly interested in Kelly's style or his approach. There might be more interesting stuff as we approach the modern era, but there's just too many lost authors for me to really care about making it through. Maybe if he'd found a different way to organize the material instead of by author. I don't know. Eh.
I am also giving up on The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, by Stuart Kelly. A fascinating topic, but he's going chronologically by author lifetime, and I barely got past ancient Greece. We will never read the lost works of Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Agathon, Aristophanes, Xenocles, Menander, or Callimachus, who have all blended together into one giant playwright in my head now (except for Sappho, who I loved previously, and Menander, because apparently they found one of his plays and it sucked). I'm just finding that I'm not particularly interested in Kelly's style or his approach. There might be more interesting stuff as we approach the modern era, but there's just too many lost authors for me to really care about making it through. Maybe if he'd found a different way to organize the material instead of by author. I don't know. Eh.
