December Reads
I actually read a fair bit in this last month, mostly as a way to disengage my brain from the trauma that is NaNoWriMo in November and I am never more aware of what my favorite genres are than when I'm seeking out comfort books.
I adore historical fiction with a fantasy basis. LOVE IT SO MUCH. Time Travel, magic, steampunk, paranormal/supernatural, whatever, I eat it like candy floss.
This month I read three such books (and one completely unrelated).
1. Dark Mirror by M.J. Putney (Victorian/WWII England)
2. Dark Passage by M.J. Putney (Victorian/WWII England)
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Modern/WWII America and England)
4. Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan (Future in Space)
I would definitely recommend Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to anyone who is seeking out something slightly different in YA without being wildly divergent. The book puts early 20th century black and white photography to great use within the pages and the writing puts you write with the narrator on his road to discovering the truth about his grandfather.
The cover really drew me into the book, before the summary did. This was one of those times where I was browsing for a new read and the cover hooked me well before any word could. I probably would have enjoyed thumbing through all the strange photographs had the writing been poor, and since I snagged it at my library, it wasn't a true risk by any mean. But the book itself shocked me by just how delightful and quirky all the characters were and how you could feel sympathy for every one of them even when the narrator could not.
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I adore historical fiction with a fantasy basis. LOVE IT SO MUCH. Time Travel, magic, steampunk, paranormal/supernatural, whatever, I eat it like candy floss.
This month I read three such books (and one completely unrelated).
1. Dark Mirror by M.J. Putney (Victorian/WWII England)
2. Dark Passage by M.J. Putney (Victorian/WWII England)
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Modern/WWII America and England)
4. Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan (Future in Space)
I would definitely recommend Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to anyone who is seeking out something slightly different in YA without being wildly divergent. The book puts early 20th century black and white photography to great use within the pages and the writing puts you write with the narrator on his road to discovering the truth about his grandfather.
The cover really drew me into the book, before the summary did. This was one of those times where I was browsing for a new read and the cover hooked me well before any word could. I probably would have enjoyed thumbing through all the strange photographs had the writing been poor, and since I snagged it at my library, it wasn't a true risk by any mean. But the book itself shocked me by just how delightful and quirky all the characters were and how you could feel sympathy for every one of them even when the narrator could not.
This entry was originally posted at http://faynia.dreamwidth.org/304236.html. Please comment there using OpenID. (comments:
)