Book Logging
Jul. 21st, 2013 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckLathen, Emma. Sweet and Low - I thought I'd read this one before because I thought I'd read all of Lathen's books, but there was nothing familiar about the plot of this one. This time, the murders involve a chocolate company and trading in chocolate futures. There's less time spent at the Sloan than I recall being usual, but I didn't miss it. There is a lack of female characters in the story (in spite of the cover showing a woman in a bathing suit).
Riordan, Rick. The Lost Hero - This is the second audiobook I've listened to while on the treadmill (and at softball games, sometimes). I think this one works well as an audiobook. Listening to it slowed me down enough to get the details and kept me from skipping around. I think one could start reading with this book, but I think it works better if one's read the previous series. Riordan managed to up the stakes with this new villain, something I didn't think was possible. The new characters are as engaging as the old ones. This story is told in third person, changing point of view with every chapter.
Robbins, Ben. Microscope: A Fractal Role-Playing Game of Epic Histories - I don't read many game books because the mechanics of games don't interest me until I'm trying to apply them (and even then I play fast and loose with the rules). This book is very short, and the game it describes sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know that I'd call it a role playing game exactly, though. It's more like a collaborative exercise in GMing with occasional forays into role playing. Players build a history/world together. They start out by defining the beginning and the end of the story. Then they take turns adding bits and pieces in the middle. A player can focus in on any period or event that's already been established or can create new ones.
Turner, Megan Whalen. Instead of Three Wishes - These stories reminded me of nothing so much as Joan Aiken's short stories. For me, that's a good thing. That means that Turner took peculiar premises and carried them through, logically, with some humor but still taking the premises seriously.
Books started but not finished:
Iron Legion - This is a collection of Doctor Who comics. They're about the Fourth Doctor, and, as far as I could tell, don't feature any of the companions from the show. I read bits and pieces of this. The art was very busy, and I had trouble following it. The pace of the action was pretty rapid in the parts I read. I really got this from the library for Scott, so I don't feel too bad about not finishing it.
McDonald, Ian. Planesrunner - I gave this one two or three chapters, but it didn't catch me. It's science fiction, involving travel to other dimensions. I didn't get to that part of it. I just read the part with the main character's father getting kidnapped and the main character getting a mysterious file from him.
Riordan, Rick. The Lost Hero - This is the second audiobook I've listened to while on the treadmill (and at softball games, sometimes). I think this one works well as an audiobook. Listening to it slowed me down enough to get the details and kept me from skipping around. I think one could start reading with this book, but I think it works better if one's read the previous series. Riordan managed to up the stakes with this new villain, something I didn't think was possible. The new characters are as engaging as the old ones. This story is told in third person, changing point of view with every chapter.
Robbins, Ben. Microscope: A Fractal Role-Playing Game of Epic Histories - I don't read many game books because the mechanics of games don't interest me until I'm trying to apply them (and even then I play fast and loose with the rules). This book is very short, and the game it describes sounds like a lot of fun. I don't know that I'd call it a role playing game exactly, though. It's more like a collaborative exercise in GMing with occasional forays into role playing. Players build a history/world together. They start out by defining the beginning and the end of the story. Then they take turns adding bits and pieces in the middle. A player can focus in on any period or event that's already been established or can create new ones.
Turner, Megan Whalen. Instead of Three Wishes - These stories reminded me of nothing so much as Joan Aiken's short stories. For me, that's a good thing. That means that Turner took peculiar premises and carried them through, logically, with some humor but still taking the premises seriously.
Books started but not finished:
Iron Legion - This is a collection of Doctor Who comics. They're about the Fourth Doctor, and, as far as I could tell, don't feature any of the companions from the show. I read bits and pieces of this. The art was very busy, and I had trouble following it. The pace of the action was pretty rapid in the parts I read. I really got this from the library for Scott, so I don't feel too bad about not finishing it.
McDonald, Ian. Planesrunner - I gave this one two or three chapters, but it didn't catch me. It's science fiction, involving travel to other dimensions. I didn't get to that part of it. I just read the part with the main character's father getting kidnapped and the main character getting a mysterious file from him.
