Book Logging
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the_rckBooks:
Barklem, Jill. Summer Story - This is a picture book from a series that I’ve seen get requested for Yuletide a time or two. The library only has a few books in the series, but I thought I’d try one as it wasn’t a huge investment of time. This is a book that’s carried more by the illustrations than by the text, I think. It’s all very cozy. Mice living in small houses and making cheese and getting married.
Brust, Steven. Good Guys - I enjoyed this one. I read it the day I got out of the hospital. It was very much what I needed in terms of light prose and plot and likable characters. This is more in the urban fantasy line, just sans romance.
Johnson, Alyssa. A Talent for Trickery - Romance. Victorian era. I liked the heroine and her family. I also liked that the Big Misunderstanding between heroine and hero ended up resolved fairly quickly once the two of them were in the same place and interacting with each other. The hero felt kind of generic to me, though, and the suspense plot felt as if it needed a lot more set up and emotional resonance. That is, although the stakes were life and death, my main reaction to the related events was, “Wow. That’s inconvenient and annoying.” I’m pretty sure I was supposed to be biting my nails and trying to figure out what was going on, but the characters themselves didn’t have the information to figure things out.
Pierce, Tamora. Tempests and Slaughter - I read this the day after I got out of the hospital. It was nice and fluffy apart from the parts that made me wonder why the adults didn’t smack the main character hard to make him understand politics and risks. It came across as negligence on their part much more than it did him being socially inept and young.
Uyeda Akinari. Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales (translated by Kengi Hamada) - (Names given as they appear on the book cover.) These are 18th century ghost stories from Japan, all by a single author. I’d really like an annotated edition of these because the stories assume a lot of knowledge of both Japanese and Chinese history.
Wells, Martha. Stories of the Raksura v.2 - I enjoyed these. Wells is always readable. I don't think that the short story collections are the place to start with this series.
Barklem, Jill. Summer Story - This is a picture book from a series that I’ve seen get requested for Yuletide a time or two. The library only has a few books in the series, but I thought I’d try one as it wasn’t a huge investment of time. This is a book that’s carried more by the illustrations than by the text, I think. It’s all very cozy. Mice living in small houses and making cheese and getting married.
Brust, Steven. Good Guys - I enjoyed this one. I read it the day I got out of the hospital. It was very much what I needed in terms of light prose and plot and likable characters. This is more in the urban fantasy line, just sans romance.
Johnson, Alyssa. A Talent for Trickery - Romance. Victorian era. I liked the heroine and her family. I also liked that the Big Misunderstanding between heroine and hero ended up resolved fairly quickly once the two of them were in the same place and interacting with each other. The hero felt kind of generic to me, though, and the suspense plot felt as if it needed a lot more set up and emotional resonance. That is, although the stakes were life and death, my main reaction to the related events was, “Wow. That’s inconvenient and annoying.” I’m pretty sure I was supposed to be biting my nails and trying to figure out what was going on, but the characters themselves didn’t have the information to figure things out.
Pierce, Tamora. Tempests and Slaughter - I read this the day after I got out of the hospital. It was nice and fluffy apart from the parts that made me wonder why the adults didn’t smack the main character hard to make him understand politics and risks. It came across as negligence on their part much more than it did him being socially inept and young.
Uyeda Akinari. Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales (translated by Kengi Hamada) - (Names given as they appear on the book cover.) These are 18th century ghost stories from Japan, all by a single author. I’d really like an annotated edition of these because the stories assume a lot of knowledge of both Japanese and Chinese history.
Wells, Martha. Stories of the Raksura v.2 - I enjoyed these. Wells is always readable. I don't think that the short story collections are the place to start with this series.
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Date: 2018-04-28 12:41 am (UTC)Re Wells: um, no. The advice is to start with The Cloud Roads. Raksura aren't humans, and there are implications to things that happen in those stories that you might not have perceived.