I love reading. I read more than three hours a day. I hope to encourage someone to read the books I discuss. My favorite genres are classics, plays, children's books, and short stories.
I really like Lorca so I've been going through his plays gradually. So far these early plays of his show potential but don't wow like Blood Wedding. This one is about a 50 something year man who leaves his young nagging wife. During his absence, the two realize how much they actually do love one another. It doesn't help that the town is against them. This play was cute but greatness was around the corner.
I read the novella Rock Crystal and loved it. So I decided to read more by Adalbert Stifter. This contains four stories by him. Two stories were ok. The others were great. "Abdias", one of the ok ones, is about a guy whose daughter is blind and she recovers. "Limestone" is about a priest and this was the worst of them. However "The Forest Path" was fantastic. It was really cute. It's about a wealthy hermit who is a hypochondriac. He is cured when he meets a sweet country girl. The other one "Brigitta" was great too. It's about a good looking guy who has had lots of girls who finds himself returning to the plain wife he left years ago. I really like Stifter and I'm going to read more by him.
Every once in a while I like to try an out of print children's book. This was a cute one with a good message. Three children want to get rid of their mean housekeeper. They go to the "mummy market" to find a suitable mom to take her place. But they keep coming up with duds. Eventually they learn from a friend that what they want to do is actually find their real mom. SPOILER: Someone on goodreads said that they didn't like the fact that the enchantment was never explained. I was find with this. Not everything has to be solved in a book.
This is the third book in the fantasy young adult series. There's supposed to be five but I don't know if that is going to happen. It's been more than ten years since this was published. SPOILER: Things happened in the third book that I didn't expect. For example I didn't see Princess Boa being a bad guy and all of a sudden Carrion becomes a friend. So there were surprises. A new character Gazza becomes a love interest and I feel like I didn't really know him. Maybe perhaps in the next book if there is one I will. Overall it was an ok installment of the series.
