Weird reading mash-ups
Monday, January 17, 2011 at 11:43AM I like to read more than one book at once. There's a couple of reasons for this: first, there are so many amazing books out there that I have a hard time limiting myself to just one at a time. And second, I'm an expert in nightmares. But I also can't fall asleep without reading. So I need to have a "lighter" book to read when I have a scarier or darker book on my nightstand.
This does have a bizarre result: in my head, the two books sometimes get a little twisted together. Sort of like the song mash-ups they do in Glee.
Right now I'm reading Carrie Ryan's beach-set zombie tale THE DEAD-TOSSED WAVES (that would be the dark book!) along with Debbie Reed Fischer's BRALESS IN WONDERLAND, a story about a brainiac becoming a reluctant model in South Beach. Yes, oddly, both are set on the beach. Complete coincidence.
So when I think about picking up a book and reading for a bit, for a moment my brain serves up images of a zombie fashion shoot on the shore by a big lighthouse. It sorts things out soon enough. But for a moment, those two books become one very strange combo.
I've also read the dystopian SHIP BREAKER along with NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL (mash-up: furtive romances on a half-dissembled ship that carried Christmas trees), as well as BEAUTY FOR SHOP RENT next to THE MAZE RUNNER (mash-up: rehabbing a beauty shop in a world inhabited solely by boys and gooshy slicing monsters).
Do you ever read two books (or more) at once? What weird mash-ups does your brain serve up?
Reader Comments (2)
Ha! I always read books in mash-up form. On the night stand now is Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins along side Don Quixote by, you know, Cervantes. Two lost wayward souls traipse around an amazing European city on life changing quests. Oops, wait, that reads like a too accurate synopsis of either. How 'bout: Two teens traipse around Paris on life changing dates whilst riding donkeys.
Here's the mash-up before that, I loved both of them, but would have had a hard time reading one without the other:
http://corriewachob.blogspot.com/2011/01/reading-wednesday.html
Nice to hear about other cool mash-ups!! Thanks for stopping by!