I've been having the kind of year where, other than reading group books, I've mostly been re-reading books, often comfort books and so on. I seem to have lost some of my reading mojo at the moment, for various RL-related reasons. Anyway, here's some of what I've managed to read that's been new.
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. ( Read more... )
The Ladies of Grace-Adieu by Susannah Clarke. ( Read more... )
Murder on the Ballarat Train, Ruddy Gore, Death at Victoria Dock, Blood and Circuses, The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood. ( Read more... )
Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones. ( Read more... )
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones. ( Read more... )
The Broken Bridge by Phillip Pullman. ( Read more... )
The first two books of The Sharing Knife sequence, Beguilement and Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold. ( Read more... )
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The UK merges with the US and there's a rebellion in Cornwall. Emma wants everyone to just get along while her grandmother, and her grandmother's family of adoptees man the barricades. I quite enjoyed this and it was interesting to read this after Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now, because DuMaurier is very specific about the events that are triggering her characters actions, and her characters pursue those details themselves, while Rosoff's aren't and don't.
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Mildly enjoyable, but I don't find Moist van Lipwig, as a protagonist, as appealing or interesting as some of Pratchett's other protagonists.
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I spotted this book, re-issued as part of the Penguin Celebrations series, while I was browsing in Borders with birthday book tokens, because it was just below Marilynne Robinson on the bookshelves in Borders. (I also bought Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, having read and loved Gilead. I'm hoping that the former has been re-printed because of the success of the latter.)
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Prompted by a conversation with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gair and the fact I'd been re-reading some Diana Wynne Jones books, I decided to see if the bookshop had any more that I hadn't already read, and was fortunate enough to scoop these four books.
As usual with DWJ, I thoroughly enjoyed them without always understanding why, and finish them knowing I'm going to re-read them, and get more out of them each time.
( Fire and Hemlock )
( Howl's Moving Castle )
( Conrad's Fate )
( The Pinhoe Egg )
Of the four of these, I'm more likely to re-read Fire and Hemlock and Howl's Moving Castle sooner, for different reasons, the latter being a playful delight, and the former, to puzzle through some more of its layers, and the other two I'm more likely re-read in context of the Chrestomanci series as a whole. And it probably also has to do with having female central protagonists too.
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