Reading roundup and year-end book meme
Clearing the decks, the last reading roundup of 2019 and the years' book meme:
40. Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man -- This was cute and fun but also drove home the point that, much as I love this world and the magic, I'm mostly here for the characters around Peter. Because I had this book sitting on my Kindle for weeks before I opened it, and ( Read more... )
40. Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man -- This was cute and fun but also drove home the point that, much as I love this world and the magic, I'm mostly here for the characters around Peter. Because I had this book sitting on my Kindle for weeks before I opened it, and ( Read more... )
Ahaha, OK, fair point XD And actually, that's making me think -- all the stuff Tobi was writing about WAS pretty low-tech, which makes perfect sense if it's just carried over from the 40s and 50s.
it had been the story of Francoise in Marsailles.
LOL! But no, that makes total sense. And I was very pleased to see that all my German flisters who are RoL fans thought Aaronovitch had done a good job with local flavor. (I've been impressed with his attention to Russian detail, too, when it's come to writing Varvara. I really respect an author who goes the extra mile, or, hell, even recognizes he has a global audience.)
I still haven't read Conspiracy (and have low expectations by now) but the cover is really really pretty
I's an absolutely gorgeous cover! Textured, too, which is very neat. (I did not dislike the book nearly as much as K did, but I also didn't think it was a particularly great book. I think it set out to do several quite difficult things, and did not pull them off.)
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