June Book Post
The theory is that I'm reading to the moon and one page = 1 kilometer. You can hit the 'reading to the moon' tag to see past entries.
This update includes 19 books or 6091 pages.
On my graphic, that looks like this:
Ellen Kushner - The Privilege of the Sword. Fantasy. I'd heard good things about this book, through yuletide-related channels, but it was most excellent. <3 Katherine.
Pamela Dean - Tam Lin. Fiction. Very interesting, but odd. Though things do happen...it doesn't feel like it has an actual plot, but more that things kind of happen but aren't the focus of the book. I'm not sure how to explain it.
Suzanne Brockmann - Breaking Point. Romance, Thriller. I still don't know that I care for the style of the book but OMG Jules. <3 I just. <3. \o/
Paul Flynn - Commons Knowledge: How to be a Backbencher. Nonfiction. Necessarily a bit dated, but useful/interesting nonetheless. Read both because of general interest and for research for my big bang.
Malinda Lo - Ash. Young Adult, Fantasy. I wasn't terribly impressed by this, it seemed to be lacking in a couple of things - world-building, foreshadowing. I don't know, it just felt a bit too fairytale for me.
Catherine Kirkwood - Cut Away. Fiction. The characters interactions are very good, and I really enjoyed how the same time period would be shown from different PoVs and how they felt like different scenes. Warning for transphobia from a character, but it's not from the author, and it's Alexandra's thoughts that dominate the book.
Suzanne Brockmann - Into the Storm. Romance, Thriller. Her writing has definitely improved since the early books. Despite a tragic lack of Jules, for the most part, this was still pretty enjoyable. Her character building is pretty good. Though the whole 'people only say things that hurt to people they're dating because they're in over their heads and are afraid of getting hurt' is a bit annoying.
Bernard Beckett - Genesis. Science Fiction. This was a rather interesting philosophical exercise of a book. Where I thought it was going was definitely not where I went, in a way that sit back and smile for a bit. A rather good bit of assumption challenging.
C. F. Bentley - Harmony. Science Fiction. This did not have great characterization, in fact the characters frequently made me annoyed at their lack of emotional maturity. And the set up of the society of Harmony made me head-desk in a major way.
Ellen Kushner - Swordspoint. Fantasy. Oh, Alec. Sometimes I wonder why Richard St Vier loves you so, and sometimes I know. You're such an adorable mess-up, though. And you do manage to do some things more right than I would have expected, and than anyone else expects you to.
Simon R. Green - Daemons Are Forever. Urbanish Fantasy. The strength of this book, more than plot or characters or anything else, is its dialogue. Molly and Eddie have awesome conversations, but so do random side characters.
Suzanne Brockmann - Force of Nature. Romance, Thriller. This is the book where Robin made himself lovable. Also, Robin/Jules, squee. But the various other characters in this book were pretty awesome too.
J. L. Langley - The Englor Affair. Romance, Science Fiction. While I'm not my brother, with a whole lecture about why Monarchies! In Space! are awful, I'm still not super fond of them. That being said, this book was enjoyable enough. It did seem like wrapping up the plot became unimportant, once the main characters had told each other how much in love they were.
Jacqueline Carey - Santa Olivia. Dystopia-esque, Fiction. The main character of this book, Loup (pronounced Lou), is mixed race: latina and black, lesbian, and awesome. The storyline was pretty compelling, and the characters were all quite well drawn.
Simon R. Green - Something From The Nightside. Urban Fantasy. John Taylor is a somewhat interesting character. This was a reread, because my local library has most of the Nightside books (I own this one) and it'd been a while since I'd read it, so I didn't remember hardly anything.
Astrid Amara - Intimate Traitors. Romance, Dystopia. Though fairly predictable the plot was somewhat interesting, even if it wasn't so much the focus of the book.
Suzanne Brockmann - All Through the Night. Romance, Thriller. Aww, Robin. <3. He really came into his own here. Also, got married. And there was plot stuff in this book too. I think so, anyway.
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman - The Fall of The Kings. Fantasy. It was probably a mistake to read this so soon after reading Swordspoint, as I think a large part of the reason I wasn't terribly fond of Theron is that I resent him for not being Alec.
Suzanne Brockmann - Into the Fire. Romance, Thriller. I just want more Jules/Robin. The other characters are developed, certainly, but the emotional lines seem to repeat a lot. And there's overlap in terms of Jules/Robin too, but anyway. The short of it is that I'm getting a bit bored.
This update includes 19 books or 6091 pages.
On my graphic, that looks like this:
18847 / 384403
4.903%
4.903%
Ellen Kushner - The Privilege of the Sword. Fantasy. I'd heard good things about this book, through yuletide-related channels, but it was most excellent. <3 Katherine.
Pamela Dean - Tam Lin. Fiction. Very interesting, but odd. Though things do happen...it doesn't feel like it has an actual plot, but more that things kind of happen but aren't the focus of the book. I'm not sure how to explain it.
Suzanne Brockmann - Breaking Point. Romance, Thriller. I still don't know that I care for the style of the book but OMG Jules. <3 I just. <3. \o/
Paul Flynn - Commons Knowledge: How to be a Backbencher. Nonfiction. Necessarily a bit dated, but useful/interesting nonetheless. Read both because of general interest and for research for my big bang.
Malinda Lo - Ash. Young Adult, Fantasy. I wasn't terribly impressed by this, it seemed to be lacking in a couple of things - world-building, foreshadowing. I don't know, it just felt a bit too fairytale for me.
Catherine Kirkwood - Cut Away. Fiction. The characters interactions are very good, and I really enjoyed how the same time period would be shown from different PoVs and how they felt like different scenes. Warning for transphobia from a character, but it's not from the author, and it's Alexandra's thoughts that dominate the book.
Suzanne Brockmann - Into the Storm. Romance, Thriller. Her writing has definitely improved since the early books. Despite a tragic lack of Jules, for the most part, this was still pretty enjoyable. Her character building is pretty good. Though the whole 'people only say things that hurt to people they're dating because they're in over their heads and are afraid of getting hurt' is a bit annoying.
Bernard Beckett - Genesis. Science Fiction. This was a rather interesting philosophical exercise of a book. Where I thought it was going was definitely not where I went, in a way that sit back and smile for a bit. A rather good bit of assumption challenging.
C. F. Bentley - Harmony. Science Fiction. This did not have great characterization, in fact the characters frequently made me annoyed at their lack of emotional maturity. And the set up of the society of Harmony made me head-desk in a major way.
Ellen Kushner - Swordspoint. Fantasy. Oh, Alec. Sometimes I wonder why Richard St Vier loves you so, and sometimes I know. You're such an adorable mess-up, though. And you do manage to do some things more right than I would have expected, and than anyone else expects you to.
Simon R. Green - Daemons Are Forever. Urbanish Fantasy. The strength of this book, more than plot or characters or anything else, is its dialogue. Molly and Eddie have awesome conversations, but so do random side characters.
Suzanne Brockmann - Force of Nature. Romance, Thriller. This is the book where Robin made himself lovable. Also, Robin/Jules, squee. But the various other characters in this book were pretty awesome too.
J. L. Langley - The Englor Affair. Romance, Science Fiction. While I'm not my brother, with a whole lecture about why Monarchies! In Space! are awful, I'm still not super fond of them. That being said, this book was enjoyable enough. It did seem like wrapping up the plot became unimportant, once the main characters had told each other how much in love they were.
Jacqueline Carey - Santa Olivia. Dystopia-esque, Fiction. The main character of this book, Loup (pronounced Lou), is mixed race: latina and black, lesbian, and awesome. The storyline was pretty compelling, and the characters were all quite well drawn.
Simon R. Green - Something From The Nightside. Urban Fantasy. John Taylor is a somewhat interesting character. This was a reread, because my local library has most of the Nightside books (I own this one) and it'd been a while since I'd read it, so I didn't remember hardly anything.
Astrid Amara - Intimate Traitors. Romance, Dystopia. Though fairly predictable the plot was somewhat interesting, even if it wasn't so much the focus of the book.
Suzanne Brockmann - All Through the Night. Romance, Thriller. Aww, Robin. <3. He really came into his own here. Also, got married. And there was plot stuff in this book too. I think so, anyway.
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman - The Fall of The Kings. Fantasy. It was probably a mistake to read this so soon after reading Swordspoint, as I think a large part of the reason I wasn't terribly fond of Theron is that I resent him for not being Alec.
Suzanne Brockmann - Into the Fire. Romance, Thriller. I just want more Jules/Robin. The other characters are developed, certainly, but the emotional lines seem to repeat a lot. And there's overlap in terms of Jules/Robin too, but anyway. The short of it is that I'm getting a bit bored.