Challenge 16: Book Club

[everythingshiny]

CHALLENGE #16: BOOK (or fic) CLUB

Description Talk Books : Copy paste the texty and discuss your favourite books this week. If you don't want to answer a question just delete it. If you want to talk more about things, go ahead! (aka remove/add questions as you wish)

Favourite book read in 2014?Read more... )

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[seraphina_snape]

Favourite book read in 2014? Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant novels. I'm still working on book 4 (Broken Homes) and I'm going to order book 5 as soon as I get my next paycheck. *g*
Have you ever read a book and had the perfect casting for a character? Yes! For the Peter Grant series I immediately wanted to see Noel Clarke as Grant. He's a little older than the character is supposed to be, but he'd be great as a magical PC.
Do you prefer series or one-offs? I like both. Series can be frustrating if it takes a while to get the next book, so these days I usually wait until all the books have been published or the last one will be published soon-ish before I start. One-offs are great too - depending on the genre you might get a tighter narrative than in a series because things are more compressed (obviously, since the author doesn't have three or five or seven books to set things up).
Is there a book character you think you are similar too? I'm sort of like Neville Longbottom (but in Slytherin) with Hermione Granger's hair, Harry's bad

[dance_thrulife]

Okay first off I love Aaronovitch! And also your casting suggestion of Noel Clarke just made me so excited. Like I want to write a letter or a petition to make happen!

Your book club suggestion has me curious, I've never heard of it or the author, and that's not something I can usually say. What's it about?

[seraphina_snape]

I know, right? Noel Clarke would be amazing as Grant - he can play the cool action and magic parts and the parts where he's absolutely baffled why whatever magic is happening.

Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat - the subtitle kind of gives you all the important plot points. *g* The narrator is a secret service agent who a) gets "demoted" to protecting an unimportant politician from a country nobody has ever heard of and b) has a love life crisis (AKA he's in love with a married woman). (The lunch meat thing is why he's getting demoted.) While taking care of some radical activists, protecting his unimportant and usually drunk charge, pining after Natelle (the married woman) and maybe having a nervous breakdown, he's also planning a secret baseball game with his Secret Service buddies against arch rivals the CIA

[dance_thrulife]

That sounds intriguing, I'm going to have to see if I can get my hands on it!

[seraphina_snape]

Even years after I read it the first time it's still one of my favourite books and I read it when I need a laugh. *g*

I'm sure you can find a second hand version somewhere.

[entwashian]

I picked up Broken Homes by accident in the bookstore, not realizing it was part of a series! XD I am really enjoying it, though, the tone is so good.

[seraphina_snape]

The good part is that while the books do reference the earlier parts, you're not hopelessly lost without having read them.

I'm not usually a fan of 1st person narration, but this one drew me in right from the start.

[skieswideopen]

We Need to Talk About Kevin looks very compelling. And timely, certainly. I may have to look that up.

[seraphina_snape]

Oh yeah. It deals with a very disturbing topic and it really makes you think about the concept of good vs evil, nature vs nurture... stuff like that.