Well, bugger.

[oilygrrl]

After unpacking, doing some laundry, and shunning human contact on Monday and Tuesday night I was double-booked tonight. I had hoped to be able to go to the dinner meeting I had to go to and then make the July GONIL Ice Cream Social afterwards. I did make it to Culver's, but just in time for the last stragglers to leave. A couple folks hung out

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[unhipster]

Not a problem except both are happening at the same time. I'll probably just go for coffee, as I'm still reading Little, Big and haven't even picked up a copy of tomorrow's book, The Stolen Child which would dovetail nicely with Little, Big as there is (at least) one stolen child in that novel as well.
I really liked The Stolen Child.

[bibliofile]

The Stolen Child was weird but okay. It made for a decent discussion, though, because some people really disliked it.

Little, Big is brilliant. I know people who can't get into it, but if you do it's well worth the trouble. Stolen Child is much shorter, though.

[oilygrrl]

Apparently most of our usual book discussion group couldn't get into Little, Big. I thought the language was utterly goregous, although it does start changing to reflect the times, as pyropyga pointed out. I'm still working on it though as I don't want to read it when I can't give it my full attention (before bed, while waiting in line, etc). I'm looking forward to reading The Stolen Child to see how they overlap (if at all) in theme, plot, and tone.

[justphoenix]

Thanks. My lawn was looking pretty brown :)