Entry tags:
Bookkeeping
( 2012 so far... )
16. The Magistrates of Hell - Barbara Hambly
It's completely unfair for any book to have to live up to Traveling With the Dead, but this one does an admirable job. I enjoyed Magistrates more than Blood Maidens, but I suspect Maidens suffered more from not being its older sister, and I should reread it.
17. A Rope of Thorns - Gemma Files
This book caused less scorpions in the brain than its predecessor, but still contains more shiny brain scorpions than most. It had a second-book feel to it, and at times the pacing felt off, but the writing is just as gorgeous and I continue to love the characters. I'm also quite enamored of the new additions to the cast, particularly Yancey and Hank.
18. The Tel Aviv Dossier - Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv
The lovely folks at the ChiZine table recommended this at Readercon, but sold out of hard copies, so I bought an ebook when I got home. I asked for Lovecraftian weirdness and it delivered, but it's also funny as hell. I fussed at the sentence-level prose a bit at the beginning, but either the writing evened out or my internal editor just shut up as I kept going. It reminds me of Good Omens in many ways.
19 - 24. Magic Tree House, a random assortment read out of order. There is no excuse for the terrible sentences in these books. None whatsoever. No age of reader deserves clunky repetition, ham-fisted dialogue tags, and awkward and pointless sentence fragments--not to mention the highly dubious science and history and unsafe animal handling. But Agent J likes the damn things, so we've gone back to the first book and will read them in order till I snap.
16. The Magistrates of Hell - Barbara Hambly
It's completely unfair for any book to have to live up to Traveling With the Dead, but this one does an admirable job. I enjoyed Magistrates more than Blood Maidens, but I suspect Maidens suffered more from not being its older sister, and I should reread it.
17. A Rope of Thorns - Gemma Files
This book caused less scorpions in the brain than its predecessor, but still contains more shiny brain scorpions than most. It had a second-book feel to it, and at times the pacing felt off, but the writing is just as gorgeous and I continue to love the characters. I'm also quite enamored of the new additions to the cast, particularly Yancey and Hank.
18. The Tel Aviv Dossier - Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv
The lovely folks at the ChiZine table recommended this at Readercon, but sold out of hard copies, so I bought an ebook when I got home. I asked for Lovecraftian weirdness and it delivered, but it's also funny as hell. I fussed at the sentence-level prose a bit at the beginning, but either the writing evened out or my internal editor just shut up as I kept going. It reminds me of Good Omens in many ways.
19 - 24. Magic Tree House, a random assortment read out of order. There is no excuse for the terrible sentences in these books. None whatsoever. No age of reader deserves clunky repetition, ham-fisted dialogue tags, and awkward and pointless sentence fragments--not to mention the highly dubious science and history and unsafe animal handling. But Agent J likes the damn things, so we've gone back to the first book and will read them in order till I snap.