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reviews from a box
Jul. 2nd, 2010 09:36 pmHave been reading my way through the box o' books ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
apis_mellifera.
Changes by Jim Butcher - some people have to act slightly out of character to make the plot go, but it's another installation in a series of books I end up devouring rapidly. And it's a reasonably bold move for an author to turn over the chess board in such a big way.
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. If you like Kay's sort of thing, you'll like this book. I quite love his sort of thing, but this one is a trifle more self-indulgent in writing style -not the way the Fionovar Tapestry was indulgent, but like he took the Sarantine Mosaic and turned up the volume a few ticks. Still, it's a book I could fall into and let unfold leisurely, like I was listening to a story rather than reading it.
Yet to read: 100 Thousand Kingdoms, A Local Habitation (I started this but haven't finished it, and am not sure how I feel about it just yet...maybe I need to read the first one), and two Robin Hobbs I am eying dubiously. Cloven Hooves messed me up when I read it a very long time ago, and I never got deeply into the Farseer books. I think I may not click with her writing.
Bemo and I took advantage of the nice evening and walked across the street to the very nice little coffeehouse that sells the locally-roasted, super-eco-friendly, very tasty coffee. We both had iced mochas and split an orange cupcake, sitting outside and enjoying the wind rustling the ivy. We shouldn't have spent the money, but I needed to get us both out of the apartment and so I'm counting it as dollars spent to maintain good mental health.
apis_mellifera.Changes by Jim Butcher - some people have to act slightly out of character to make the plot go, but it's another installation in a series of books I end up devouring rapidly. And it's a reasonably bold move for an author to turn over the chess board in such a big way.
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. If you like Kay's sort of thing, you'll like this book. I quite love his sort of thing, but this one is a trifle more self-indulgent in writing style -not the way the Fionovar Tapestry was indulgent, but like he took the Sarantine Mosaic and turned up the volume a few ticks. Still, it's a book I could fall into and let unfold leisurely, like I was listening to a story rather than reading it.
Yet to read: 100 Thousand Kingdoms, A Local Habitation (I started this but haven't finished it, and am not sure how I feel about it just yet...maybe I need to read the first one), and two Robin Hobbs I am eying dubiously. Cloven Hooves messed me up when I read it a very long time ago, and I never got deeply into the Farseer books. I think I may not click with her writing.
Bemo and I took advantage of the nice evening and walked across the street to the very nice little coffeehouse that sells the locally-roasted, super-eco-friendly, very tasty coffee. We both had iced mochas and split an orange cupcake, sitting outside and enjoying the wind rustling the ivy. We shouldn't have spent the money, but I needed to get us both out of the apartment and so I'm counting it as dollars spent to maintain good mental health.
