Incoherent ramblings.... Pt.'whatever.
The weekend after Easter has been spend rereading old favourites, like Sherwood Smith's Crown & Court duet and Tamora Pierce's Alanna series in addition to more adult stuff. Both of the series are the kind of YA books that I might never have read but for my longtime membership in the DWJ List. I only discovered them in my late twenties, and only through the List. Well, neither of the series had been translated into Finnish when I was a child, so it's pretty natural, I guess...
Other good recommendations that have come through the list have been Garth Nix's Sabriel series, etc. Well, I've been championing Sabriel and it's sequels so many years that I can't even remember the beginning. Sabriel and Lirael have already been translated into Finnish because I and my publishing friend's boss both loved them.
:smug: I also got to read the manuscript of Abhorsen about half a year before it was published in any version:/smug:.
Bite, the romance/fantasy anthology Susanna loaned me was surprisingly good since most of these kinds of anthologies have only one or two "good" stories while the rest are only mediocre or pretty forgettable. This is a surprising anthology in that almost every story is good! Even Laurell K. Hamilton has written a genuine short story instead of another excerpt from one of her upcoming novels (which has happened in a couple of earlier anthologies).
Wen Spencer's Tinker (another loan from Susanna) was more uneven. It had lots of readability and good elements, but I guess some of the technical stuff slowed it down. The world and the characters were lovely, but too much of the writing stayed at the stereotypical level. The action seemed to sometimes jump from one thing to another without any coherence, and the beginning was a bit too jumpy. Still, whatever my negative comments, I liked the story and am interested to read the sequel.
I've mentioned before, that my interestes go in cycles. All the book stuff was/is current (I'm still browsing through Alanna books), but I haven't been concentrating on them at all, since Spiderweb's Geneforge 3 has been taking quite a lot of my time now that it has finally been released...
Other good recommendations that have come through the list have been Garth Nix's Sabriel series, etc. Well, I've been championing Sabriel and it's sequels so many years that I can't even remember the beginning. Sabriel and Lirael have already been translated into Finnish because I and my publishing friend's boss both loved them.
:smug: I also got to read the manuscript of Abhorsen about half a year before it was published in any version:/smug:.
Bite, the romance/fantasy anthology Susanna loaned me was surprisingly good since most of these kinds of anthologies have only one or two "good" stories while the rest are only mediocre or pretty forgettable. This is a surprising anthology in that almost every story is good! Even Laurell K. Hamilton has written a genuine short story instead of another excerpt from one of her upcoming novels (which has happened in a couple of earlier anthologies).
Wen Spencer's Tinker (another loan from Susanna) was more uneven. It had lots of readability and good elements, but I guess some of the technical stuff slowed it down. The world and the characters were lovely, but too much of the writing stayed at the stereotypical level. The action seemed to sometimes jump from one thing to another without any coherence, and the beginning was a bit too jumpy. Still, whatever my negative comments, I liked the story and am interested to read the sequel.
I've mentioned before, that my interestes go in cycles. All the book stuff was/is current (I'm still browsing through Alanna books), but I haven't been concentrating on them at all, since Spiderweb's Geneforge 3 has been taking quite a lot of my time now that it has finally been released...