A slightly delayed bookish update
I meant to do this the other day after I finished the Lynda La Plante book, but it slipped my mind and since then I've started (and finished) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
So here goes.
Book 33 of 2010 - Deadly Intent - Lynda La Plante
03/04/10 - 06/04/10
I'd not been quite as keen on Clean Cut as I had been on the first two books in this series, so I wasn't entirely sure how I would find this one. I was pleasantly surprised.
I didn't really like the way that things went with Langton at the end of the previous book but it all seemed to work well in this one. I found it a lot easier to follow what was going on than I did in the last one, even though there were all sorts of threads going on with different crimes and killers and a guy with about twenty different aliases. Things just seemed clearer to me in this one than they did in the last one.
I wasn't impressed with Anna's latest love life advances, but I can pretty much overlook that. I'm curious about where that'll go in the next book. I don't mind the romance element so much, it's nice to have something going on which isn't all death and violence, but I think what Anna really needs is a guy completely outside of law enforcement so that every discussion she has isn't about the case she's working on.
Oh and she needs to get over that thing where she goes off on her own, now she's progressed up through the ranks it's time she started behaving herself.
Book 34 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
07/04/10 - 07/04/10
I love that I was able to read this one in a day. Of course there were other things I should have been doing while I was reading it, so now I've been delayed on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets because I put off doing them to read the previous book, but what the hey.
There's something so magical about the Harry Potter books, I just love it. I can still remember reading them for the first time and it makes me incredibly sad that I won't get that experience with these books again.
They seemed really 'faddy' at the time. Loads of people were reading them and talking about them and I held out for ages, until we moved house and Dad ordered them from The Book People to be delivered to our new home so I'd have something read while all my books were packed away in boxes. I think I read them all twice in the first month that we were living in Scotland!
Each time I reread them I expect to get that little skeptical voice piping up that this is a children's book and to find that I can't see the magic in it anymore. But every time I can and every time I notice something a little bit more, or different or something which link into something which happens much later in the series. I always wonder whether they were things which J.K. Rowling intentionally put in, or wrote and then realised some time afterwards that they could be linked to something else.
I wish I could create a world as fantastical as Harry's.
Right now I've got both of this month's book club books on order from the library and, last time I checked, the next Lynda La Plante book is out as well, so I'm just working my way through the Harry Potter series. It's silly because I've been putting it off because the books are all buried in boxes and I thought it would be difficult to get them out, but it turns out that they're right at the top of the top box!
So here goes.
Book 33 of 2010 - Deadly Intent - Lynda La Plante
03/04/10 - 06/04/10
I'd not been quite as keen on Clean Cut as I had been on the first two books in this series, so I wasn't entirely sure how I would find this one. I was pleasantly surprised.
I didn't really like the way that things went with Langton at the end of the previous book but it all seemed to work well in this one. I found it a lot easier to follow what was going on than I did in the last one, even though there were all sorts of threads going on with different crimes and killers and a guy with about twenty different aliases. Things just seemed clearer to me in this one than they did in the last one.
I wasn't impressed with Anna's latest love life advances, but I can pretty much overlook that. I'm curious about where that'll go in the next book. I don't mind the romance element so much, it's nice to have something going on which isn't all death and violence, but I think what Anna really needs is a guy completely outside of law enforcement so that every discussion she has isn't about the case she's working on.
Oh and she needs to get over that thing where she goes off on her own, now she's progressed up through the ranks it's time she started behaving herself.
Book 34 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
07/04/10 - 07/04/10
I love that I was able to read this one in a day. Of course there were other things I should have been doing while I was reading it, so now I've been delayed on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets because I put off doing them to read the previous book, but what the hey.
There's something so magical about the Harry Potter books, I just love it. I can still remember reading them for the first time and it makes me incredibly sad that I won't get that experience with these books again.
They seemed really 'faddy' at the time. Loads of people were reading them and talking about them and I held out for ages, until we moved house and Dad ordered them from The Book People to be delivered to our new home so I'd have something read while all my books were packed away in boxes. I think I read them all twice in the first month that we were living in Scotland!
Each time I reread them I expect to get that little skeptical voice piping up that this is a children's book and to find that I can't see the magic in it anymore. But every time I can and every time I notice something a little bit more, or different or something which link into something which happens much later in the series. I always wonder whether they were things which J.K. Rowling intentionally put in, or wrote and then realised some time afterwards that they could be linked to something else.
I wish I could create a world as fantastical as Harry's.
Right now I've got both of this month's book club books on order from the library and, last time I checked, the next Lynda La Plante book is out as well, so I'm just working my way through the Harry Potter series. It's silly because I've been putting it off because the books are all buried in boxes and I thought it would be difficult to get them out, but it turns out that they're right at the top of the top box!