Book log catchup, #1
Sep. 6th, 2004 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nlbarberHave I really not done a recent reads post since mid-May? Unfortunately, this is all too likely. So, will punt on book summaries and mini-reviews (neither of which I do well, anyway) in favor of a list with notes.
May:
Tanya Huff, Smoke and Shadows - Not as enjoyable as the Henry books, felt very repetitious (back to the warehouse at gate-time again?)
David Weber, Wind Rider's Oath - Quite good, though not as well-paced as the first two in the series. The famous Weber info-dumps strike again, plus various digressions and POV changes to slow things down.
Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch - re-read for the Heyer list
Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book - Not quite as much fun as the first one, perhaps just due to the fact that it's the second one.
June:
early June was a spate of Sayers re-reads, which led to Bujold re-reads, and then for some reason to selected Balogh re-reads. Call it an extended confort-read session.
Ellen Rankin, The Westing Game - strongly recommended by my 10-year-old niece. Pretty good, though I solved most of the mystery very early on. Didn't get the last twist though. Niece, on the other hand, missed the part I got and solved the one I missed...
Mecedes Lackey, The Fairy Godmother - Not bad. Rather better than I expected, in fact, based on her short-story in the kick-off anthology for this line. (I have read most of what Lackey has written, but some of it is..definitely worse than others.)
Anthology: Once Upon a Midnight, stories by Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan were all fair. The Langan was the best of the lot.
May:
Tanya Huff, Smoke and Shadows - Not as enjoyable as the Henry books, felt very repetitious (back to the warehouse at gate-time again?)
David Weber, Wind Rider's Oath - Quite good, though not as well-paced as the first two in the series. The famous Weber info-dumps strike again, plus various digressions and POV changes to slow things down.
Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch - re-read for the Heyer list
Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book - Not quite as much fun as the first one, perhaps just due to the fact that it's the second one.
June:
early June was a spate of Sayers re-reads, which led to Bujold re-reads, and then for some reason to selected Balogh re-reads. Call it an extended confort-read session.
Ellen Rankin, The Westing Game - strongly recommended by my 10-year-old niece. Pretty good, though I solved most of the mystery very early on. Didn't get the last twist though. Niece, on the other hand, missed the part I got and solved the one I missed...
Mecedes Lackey, The Fairy Godmother - Not bad. Rather better than I expected, in fact, based on her short-story in the kick-off anthology for this line. (I have read most of what Lackey has written, but some of it is..definitely worse than others.)
Anthology: Once Upon a Midnight, stories by Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan were all fair. The Langan was the best of the lot.
