Books and the people who love them
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effexApparently felt the need to compensate for last time's poor showing. 10 books in 18 days, rock on!
Currently Reading:
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Finished Reading:
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase (reread)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (reread)
To Read Pile:
Dull Boy by Sarah Cross
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Kindred by Octavia Butler
I love love love the 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series. I love Mma Ramotswe, I love her Botswana, I love the characters, I love the writing, I love these books. They made me laugh, they made me cry, and I normally do not do either of these things. I plan on buying the rest post haste and also everything else Smith has written. The TV series is also really really good!
'Demon's Lexicon' was also a rollicking good read - I read it straight through and am still kind of dazed, days later. If you've read any of Sarah's Harry Potter fanfic (if you haven't, and want to, drop me a note. You will not regret it) you're familiar with the tight, achy feeling she creates - all slow dawning realizations and subtle characterization and people acting stupid in believable ways. And also humor! Really funny humor. This book has these things in spades and, now that she's got the world building out of the way, I expect the next book will blow my mind. Yay!
Currently Reading:
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Finished Reading:
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase (reread)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (reread)
To Read Pile:
Dull Boy by Sarah Cross
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Kindred by Octavia Butler
I love love love the 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series. I love Mma Ramotswe, I love her Botswana, I love the characters, I love the writing, I love these books. They made me laugh, they made me cry, and I normally do not do either of these things. I plan on buying the rest post haste and also everything else Smith has written. The TV series is also really really good!
'Demon's Lexicon' was also a rollicking good read - I read it straight through and am still kind of dazed, days later. If you've read any of Sarah's Harry Potter fanfic (if you haven't, and want to, drop me a note. You will not regret it) you're familiar with the tight, achy feeling she creates - all slow dawning realizations and subtle characterization and people acting stupid in believable ways. And also humor! Really funny humor. This book has these things in spades and, now that she's got the world building out of the way, I expect the next book will blow my mind. Yay!
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Date: 2009-06-23 06:04 pm (UTC)Would you mind tellling me, via PM or email or something or other non-public, who in fandom Brennan is/was? Because her book was enjoyable enough that now I'd like to go search out her fic (ideally, I like to read the fic of fan-writers gone pro *first*, before spending actual money on them, but the last two pages of Lexicon made it look so awesome that I couldn't wait and had to have it right then).