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Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 4th, '19, 01:31
by Akili Li
Yeah, that's a good way to do it.
Or letters. Epistolary novels can be fun, too.
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 4th, '19, 16:42
by jacobgrey
Huh. I gues I always just assume, whenever someone introduces themselves, that they're writing in a diary or telling you their story directly. If it's in past tense especially. Like how old books used to be framed -
I think Wuthering Heights is one of those where there is a framing about someone telling the story of what happened, so you go into the story but it's in that person's words. I never really thought of it being inside their heads in that case.
Or I just see it like stream of consciousness, but I don't really get that voyeuristic sense.
I think I'm cool with any type of perspective so long as it's a solid perspective. Like I was saying with the book I just finished reading, how the shifting perspective between people constantly, paragraph to paragraph, really put me off. I think they call that omniscient perspective or something like that?
Now I think of it, I get thrown off with TV shows and films that do this as well. It's kind of okay when you have a big cast and it's not from any particular perspective, like Game of Thrones. But when you have a central character that narrates and always has their POV, (You comes to mind from Netflix recently), I get super irked when you suddenly go and watch something that happens when that character isn't around. Because how could they know about that happening?
Anyway, I ended up giving that book 4 stars out of 5, so I guess it didn't ruin everything completely 
but it could definitely have been 5 stars if the perspective shifts didn't happen.
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 5th, '19, 00:37
by Sanssouci
Yeah, I usually picture first person books basically being a diary, even when they are not specifically set up with diary entries.
I'm about a quarter of the way through The Toll-Gate, and it's decent so far.
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 5th, '19, 21:20
by Akili Li
I think I've read too many actual historical diaries for the diary image to work well for me, because mostly those books do not read like actual diaries at all.
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 10th, '19, 07:57
by LittleJulez
That's interesting, I never regard them as diaries, unless they are intentionally written like one.
I finished Percy Jackson: The titan's curse (book 3). I decided to finish reading HP 2 in Russian next.
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 10th, '19, 17:45
by Sanssouci
Actually, I guess I probably read them more like an autobiography.
I'm almost done with Marriage of Mercy. I'm juggling a bunch of books right now...
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 11th, '19, 01:36
by Akili Li
It is oddly true that for nonfiction works I don't have any trouble with first person. Autobiographies can be FUN!
In fact, I haven't read any in a while (besides rereads). Any of you have any recommendations in that genre?
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 11th, '19, 08:42
by LittleJulez
I've actually never read an autobiography, but my friend said that Michelle Obama's is great :)
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 11th, '19, 16:42
by Akili Li
Really? Not even for school? Not even Cellini's autobiography?
Re: The 2019 Reading Challenge
Posted: Jul 11th, '19, 20:17
by Sanssouci
I'm not sure that I've ever read one either.