Well a while is probably an understatement. More like 6/7 months, but who's counting? (No one actually, because I'm the only one that reads this...)
I would like to make some kind of joke here about how I've just been away reading one book and it's taken me 6 months, but I kind of sort of have. And it wasn't War and Peace.
To be fair I have been on holiday (in September) and been back at uni doing a dissertation and the like, but I still have only managed to finish about three books in this time, which either says a lot about my reading abilities or the books themselves...
The first one I finished on holiday was none other than Steig Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire. I love this trilogy and I'm ploughing through the final one as we speak! After I'd finished this one though, I began to read The Kite Runner. I loved the film and I love Khaled Hosseini, but for some reason I took months and months to get through this book. I do think it was more me not having much time to read it rather than it being a bit of a rubbish book, but I do still think that says something! I remember reading A Thousand Splendid Suns in about a week because I couldn't put it down! But then maybe that is because there wasn't a film version to remind you of what was yet to come...
I found a similar thing occurred to me whilst reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. I know, I know! How can I slate Oscar Wilde?! But the thing is, I could 100% tell that this was the book that was made out of several short stories and put together to make a book, with a few added chapters in which ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED! The ones in which something did happen were of course fabulous, but I felt that I was reading this book for years! In the end I had to stop taking it to read at the hairdressers with me because she was beginning to question why I hadn't finished it yet! Although she agreed with me about the rogue chapters...
Anyway, I'm happily settled with The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, and I gather that my one reader is now content that I have informed them of what I've been reading these past few months, because what I read is obviously oh so important.
I would quite like someone to recommend me a good book for after I've finished this one, that way I can blame them if I'm still reading it when I'm 40.
