What I am Reading
Oct. 28th, 2006 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
affrecaMy normal reaction to stress is to retreat and read. Recently I've been reading Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn pseudotrilogy (can it still be called a triology when the last book was so long the paperback had to be published as two thick volumes). A good standard triology. Red-haired scullion has adventures, saves world and ends up as king married to princess. Better done than the Eddings version.
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lawnchair was still finsihing his paper when I finished the last book, so I had to decide what else to read. Enter Jo Walton's (papersky's) Tooth and Claw. I had bought one of her books from the NEX back when I was in Japan (I bought a copy of just about everything they had in sci-fi and fantasy since they were quite a bit cheaper than the stores out in town), but never read it, dismissing it as yet another Authur story. Eventually it was weeded out. But I've been hearing good things about her latest book, Farthing, so when I found Tooth and Claw at half price I decided to give her another try.
I love Tooth and Claw. Ok, I'm leery of books that seem to have been writen as a dare (Victorian novel using all the Victorian novel expectations but where all the characters are dragons and lords literally eat their farmer's excess offspring), but it was well done. Makes me almost want to try to read an Austen novel (yes, I'm a bad bibliophile who has never even tried one).
It's a quick read (I'm done and started last night).
But
lawnchair was still finsihing his paper when I finished the last book, so I had to decide what else to read. Enter Jo Walton's (papersky's) Tooth and Claw. I had bought one of her books from the NEX back when I was in Japan (I bought a copy of just about everything they had in sci-fi and fantasy since they were quite a bit cheaper than the stores out in town), but never read it, dismissing it as yet another Authur story. Eventually it was weeded out. But I've been hearing good things about her latest book, Farthing, so when I found Tooth and Claw at half price I decided to give her another try. I love Tooth and Claw. Ok, I'm leery of books that seem to have been writen as a dare (Victorian novel using all the Victorian novel expectations but where all the characters are dragons and lords literally eat their farmer's excess offspring), but it was well done. Makes me almost want to try to read an Austen novel (yes, I'm a bad bibliophile who has never even tried one).
It's a quick read (I'm done and started last night).
