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[graculus]

What I've read since last time:

Threshold by Caitlin Kiernan
A Watery Grave by Joan Druett
The Last Wish by Andrezj Sapkowski
The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Mister Monday by Garth Nix
Drinking Midnight Wine by Simon R Green
Dead Clever by Scarlett Thomas
The Crusader by Michael Eisner
Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
In the Still of the Night by Jill Churchill
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

And I'm currently reading Something From the Nightside by Simon R. Green - comments, as always, on my book blog or straight to LJ via graculus_vox.

Comments

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Apart from..how amazed (and a little envious, but in the good way!)I am that you manage to read so much...Inkspell!! What did you think of it?
I've read the trilogy, and I wish I could use the red pen on all three books, because ohmy, the woman repeats and repeats and repeats the same things over and over (worse than what I am doing just now,LOL), BUT...I like the world building, and esp Dustfinger. Meaning, I didn't really want to read the books, but couldn't help it.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Of course, the fact I have no life helps immensely when it comes to reading a lot... ;)

Also, I quite liked Inkspell, though Dustfinger is my favourite character and I wasn't at all impressed by how he gets treated in that book. And then there's the whole 'oh, Roxanne is the love of his life' business, which flatly contradicts itself in terms of Dustfinger's behaviour when he sacrifices himself for Farid. Dustfinger/Farid OTP! :P

I haven't read the third one yet (so no spoilers!), but from the first two I'm in agreement that she could use a good editor, much like the later JKR books. But they're still way better than The Thief Lord which I really didn't like at all.