Reading Wednesday (on a Thursday)
Nov. 24th, 2022 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starsprayI need to start setting a reminder or something for Reading Wednesdays because I keep forgetting. How long has it been since I last did one? No idea. But since then I have read:
Squire, by Tamora Pierce: I am continuing to very much enjoy my Tortall reread; I'd forgotten a lot about the plot of this one. Raoul continues to be my favorite. I also really love the little girls that Kel ends up inspiring to pursue knighthood.
The Charm Offensive, by Alison Cochrun: This took me a few tries to get into because the very beginning gave me hard second hand embarrassment, but it was worth pushing through! Was not expecting one of the leads to actually be any flavor of ace, so that's always a nice surprise. The whole reality dating tv show setting was also surprisingly engaging (both as a parody and a critique of the real life genre; at least I believe that's what it's supposed to be, as I have never watched a real dating show).
Thin Air, by Ann Cleeves - Another Shetland mystery; I really very much enjoy these. The mystery had a couple of neat twists, and this time around I did manage to guess who the murderer was before the end!
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson - When I read All That is Wicked all the chapters had epigraphs from this book, and I realized that I'd never actually read it! The bulk of the story is from the POV of Jekyll's friend/lawyer, which I hadn't known. Lends more of a mystery to the whole situation, I suppose, though the whole Jekyll/Hyde thing is so well known today that the mystery is kind of ruined before a modern reader ever picks the thing up, and the reveal at the end is rather anticlimactic as a result.
Brightly Burning, by Mercedes Lackey - This is the book that I took a day off from NaNoWriMo to finish. It was quite good! I really need to stop putting books off until I can't renew them anymore, though.
Squire, by Tamora Pierce: I am continuing to very much enjoy my Tortall reread; I'd forgotten a lot about the plot of this one. Raoul continues to be my favorite. I also really love the little girls that Kel ends up inspiring to pursue knighthood.
The Charm Offensive, by Alison Cochrun: This took me a few tries to get into because the very beginning gave me hard second hand embarrassment, but it was worth pushing through! Was not expecting one of the leads to actually be any flavor of ace, so that's always a nice surprise. The whole reality dating tv show setting was also surprisingly engaging (both as a parody and a critique of the real life genre; at least I believe that's what it's supposed to be, as I have never watched a real dating show).
Thin Air, by Ann Cleeves - Another Shetland mystery; I really very much enjoy these. The mystery had a couple of neat twists, and this time around I did manage to guess who the murderer was before the end!
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson - When I read All That is Wicked all the chapters had epigraphs from this book, and I realized that I'd never actually read it! The bulk of the story is from the POV of Jekyll's friend/lawyer, which I hadn't known. Lends more of a mystery to the whole situation, I suppose, though the whole Jekyll/Hyde thing is so well known today that the mystery is kind of ruined before a modern reader ever picks the thing up, and the reveal at the end is rather anticlimactic as a result.
Brightly Burning, by Mercedes Lackey - This is the book that I took a day off from NaNoWriMo to finish. It was quite good! I really need to stop putting books off until I can't renew them anymore, though.
