Books Update

[angharad]

This week, I've reread

• both Dirk Gently books
• the first two Blind Justice books

, read

• The Full Cupboard of Life
• The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
• Keroro Gunso #5

Comments

[blue_lotus]

Did you like "The curious incident of the dog"? I loved that book and thought it was one of the more creative things I'd read in a while.

[angharad]

I did enjoy it, very much. Although, I also agree with the folks who point out that the character's autism is stereotyped in a "at least ten years ago" way.

[swinehund]

I will remember to bring issues 3 and 4 next time I see you (assuming you want to read them)!

[angharad]

Certainly! Reading something I already know the story to is good practice, if nothing else, and I hoping that some vocab sneaks in as well. gragathaz wants to read them, or else I'd return them. I'll poke him.

[numignost]

The paperback versions of Iain Pears' "Art History Mysteries" are particularly infuriating ... in every one there's a list of "other books by the same author" and in every single one the list is in a different order! You can figure it out from the copyright dates, but honestly...

[angharad]

Art History, eh? Maybe I should check those out for educational purposes. I seem to get most of my knowledge of history from genre novels.

[skutir]

I've been meaning to re-read the Dirk Gently books. I love those books. I kept hoping he'd write a third one.

[angharad]

It'd been years since I read them. They were surprisingly distinct of POV (the first one was never from Dirk's POV, and the second one was mostly), and I kept slowing down because the majority of the sentences were just so good.