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Reading Wednesday
Jan. 29th, 2025 08:14 pmHey I've read some things!
The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke - Rather a disappointment, honestly. I think I can see what she was trying to do but the style doesn't hit as well as JS&MN or Piranesi. The illustrations were nice, though.
The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare - All I knew going into this play was the pursued by bear thing and ehhh, not my favorite play.
We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman - Took me a while to get into this one. It's fun and funny, but it jumps around a lot and felt way too chaotic at times, like I couldn't keep track of who was who and what was going on, let alone try to figure out whodunit (I hate it when mystery authors don't play fair with the reader--I want to try to figure it out as I go! I almost never succeed but at least authors like Sayers give me the goddamn clues instead of blatantly withholding them).
I'll probably pick up the next book in the series but I'm not as excited about it as I am for Thursday Murder Club.
The Wood at Midwinter, by Susanna Clarke - Rather a disappointment, honestly. I think I can see what she was trying to do but the style doesn't hit as well as JS&MN or Piranesi. The illustrations were nice, though.
The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare - All I knew going into this play was the pursued by bear thing and ehhh, not my favorite play.
We Solve Murders, by Richard Osman - Took me a while to get into this one. It's fun and funny, but it jumps around a lot and felt way too chaotic at times, like I couldn't keep track of who was who and what was going on, let alone try to figure out whodunit (I hate it when mystery authors don't play fair with the reader--I want to try to figure it out as I go! I almost never succeed but at least authors like Sayers give me the goddamn clues instead of blatantly withholding them).
I'll probably pick up the next book in the series but I'm not as excited about it as I am for Thursday Murder Club.
