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... )
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Also the Gaiman one - but I want that as a dead tree book!
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The Gaiman Hansel & Gretel is not a book I would buy for myself -- not enough text to bit into -- but it was a pretty striking edition.
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It is so very much that, and it is RIDICULOUS XD
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Also wtf did Jude expect? Like really? I do have The Queen of Nothing on hold, but mostly because I want to see wtf Holly pulls out of the hat. And like you said, murder dad.
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And like you said, murder dad.
Yep! NGL, I'm disappointed by Jude as a protagonist compared to other Holly Black protagonists I've liked -- Kaye and Tana and Hazel and Cassel. I would hope book 3 pulls off some kind of twist that redeems this series for me, but I don't really expect it to... :(
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I know of her but I'm not sure I've ever read anything of hers until book club read cruel prince (in which there's a scene I swear to fuck I read somewhere else years ago).
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My money is definitely not on German magical bureaucracy adapting quickly XD Someone probably dug out the old files and went 'that was good enough a hundred years ago, why should we change?'
But yes, Peter and Tobi are, apart from the nerd-level, not that different. Which I guess is a curse if you write a sort of character-driven-ish series/a series where the character(s) are a large part of the appeal. So I was also left with a "I am here for a character like this but also I feel like I've met him before" but as said, I was just delighted by the effort Aaronovitch put in the local details, which probably made me like it more than idk. it had been the story of Francoise in Marsailles.
I still haven't read Conspiracy (and have low expectations by now) but the cover is really really pretty
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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 prettyI'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 ( ... )
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