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Date: 22 February 2009 17:50:24
Today I set the goal of doing nothing buty rest, again! I'm pleased to say that I have achieved the target set. I have tried putting off finishing my book - I only have about 20 pages and don't want it to end.
You see I have a fear. When I finish this book I may go back to The Lieutenant by Kate Granville. I got this as an Amazon Vine review item and have found it very hard going.
It's not that it's a bad book as such. The problem I have is that it appears to be in the style of Thomas Kenneally. This isn't a bad thing as he writes some great books and on similar subjects. The problem is that, though she has written an Orange Prize winner, who hasn't?, she just isn't as good at pacing the story and has not made the characters rounded enough. The story is more about language than the people. That isn't a bad thing but the story just doesn't hook me.
I hate not finishing books but sometimes I need to leave them for a while and then finish later when they are like this.