Is long the new short?
I just picked up Katherine Applegate's Beach Blondes: A Summer Novel (Simon Pulse) and boy are my arms tired. This sucker is 721 paperback pages long, and first in a series to boot. I'm guessing it's so fat for some strategic marketing reason, or perhaps I just haven't yet gotten to the chapter "This Is Summer Speaking," in which the heroine stops the motor of the world in order to expound for fifty-seven pages on the virtues of Vera Bradley bags.
Labels: Girls reading, Summer reading
posted by Roger Sutton at 2:15 PM
2 Comments:
LONG MAY SHE REIGN is over 700 pages also; I'm enjoying it but it does feel padded.
Seems like a good reason to buy a Kindle....
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