Thursday, February 10, 2011

Spotted: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Where: Q-train
Who was reading: A pregnant woman who appeared quite flushed, but declined to take a seat when it was offered. She wore a pair of dark glasses.
Dark glasses? Underground?! That’s some real mole-people shit.
Anyway, here's what that Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime guy (Mark Haddon) said: “[It's] a first novel with a sustained, magical and utterly faultless voice. After five pages, I knew she could persuade me to believe anything.”
And boy, does it ever take a wacky turn! I mean, I like dystopian cousin-cest as much as the next person, but c’mon, where were the parents?
Errr… not in a dirty way, of course.
Quickly moving on: It’s actually a lovely book, an excellent teen/adult crossover, and one I’d heartily recommend. In fact, I might even have an extra copy I could give to whoever comes up with the cleverest comment (or, let’s face it, probably the only comment) in response to this post. 

11 comments:

  1. I was trying to think of a clever comment, until I saw one of the post's labels: "too much bold/caps?t?" Now I just want to know what that means.

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  2. The woman reading with the sun-glasses was obvious prepared for the coming apocalypse. You know, the one where the sun explodes and everyone not wearing sun-glasses is blinded. Or, maybe just the outbreak of WWIII. Either way. Serious mole-people.

    And now I want to know what the "too much bold/caps" thing means, too!

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  3. I was just anxious that the layout of the post was being weighed down by too much bold text and too many capital letters so I thought I'd draw attention to it for some reason... Sort of a 'self-deprecate before anyone else can beat you to the punch' reaction.

    I'm excited to know that people read the tags though!

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  4. As a person who spends her day doing lots of text layout and editing, battling against the over use of capital letters for EMPHASIS and VOLUME, I definitely appreciate self-aware text formatters. :)

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  5. I just thought her cap was too bold, and you had forgotten to mention it. THANKS BOOKSPY!

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  6. Mole people and cousin-cest: a winning combination, I say.

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  7. It's got a big gold P on the cover, so it must be good.

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  8. Some intriguing comments so far! I'm going to give people until this Thursday (a week from the date of the original post) to respond before choosing a winner. Of course all readers are winners, so it's more or less a moot point....

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  9. I came to this site from the Christian Science Monitor and because I like metros and reading.

    I am staying because you linked to a Philip Pullman speech.

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  10. And the winner of the HOW I LIVE NOW giveaway is . . . Meradeth!

    Congratulations! Email me your mailing address and I'll send the book post-haste.

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  11. Sweet! I emailed--hopefully I didn't end up in your spam. Thank you!!

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