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Emma Bull
Bone Dance
Quite entertaining - I liked Sparrow and I quite liked the cyberpunk world of this, even though it's a dated future (video tapes?), but then, that's the problem with science fiction.
Gail Carriger
Heartless
More mad scientists, more vampires, more Biffy and Lord Akeldama being overtly dramatic and wallowing instead of just being sensible and figuring things out. Oh, and sinister murder plots, giant octopus-machines, exploding teapots, fashionable ear-muffs and the birth of an abomination. All in all, quite fun. Looking forward to the next book (even as I worry when this series will hit the inevitable turning point where it stops being fun and starts being repetition and ridiculous and similar (at least Alexi is a far more sensible heroine than Sookie and sucklike - and happily married to boot, so...)
Deadpool classics vol. 1. & Mike Benson & Adam Glass: Deadpool - Suicide Kings
Oh Wade. :-)
Historia Augusta
It amuses me that the bits that seem to scandalize the original authors the most - like women daring to get involved in Senate business - are most likely to just make me shrug. And really, some of this is basically gossip rag literature - that emperor was mad and had so many boyfriends and was so, so evil that his own soldiers killed him (never mind that death by own soldiers seems to have been the most common cause of death among these emperors...)
Laurie R. King
Pirate King
So, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes and pirates. Well, a silent film production about pirates - except there are pirates. And quite a few piratical tropes worked in and played with - like the traditional girl-disguised-as-boy-to-get-aboard getting turned upside down. Fun, but not more than that.
Terry Pratchett
Snuff
Okay. This was fun - I liked the Jane-Austen-meets-the-Mississippi countryside and several of the new characters, and there were much entertainment, but - how to put this. It - wasn't as fun as Discworld novels normally manage to be. It didn't feel quite - look, the Ankh-Morpork B-plot didn't start until nearly halfway, the ending felt rushed, there was one bit that seemed like the same thing was basically repeated twice in slightly varied ways, there were bits of main text that felt like it would have worked better as a footnote, and a complete absence of Death. I don't know. I liked the novel, I did - but I'm wondering if this is the Alzheimer's or simply the difference between actually writing and dictating a novel showing or what. And it makes me worry, just a bit.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 27
Currently reading: none - just finished one
Bone Dance
Quite entertaining - I liked Sparrow and I quite liked the cyberpunk world of this, even though it's a dated future (video tapes?), but then, that's the problem with science fiction.
Gail Carriger
Heartless
More mad scientists, more vampires, more Biffy and Lord Akeldama being overtly dramatic and wallowing instead of just being sensible and figuring things out. Oh, and sinister murder plots, giant octopus-machines, exploding teapots, fashionable ear-muffs and the birth of an abomination. All in all, quite fun. Looking forward to the next book (even as I worry when this series will hit the inevitable turning point where it stops being fun and starts being repetition and ridiculous and similar (at least Alexi is a far more sensible heroine than Sookie and sucklike - and happily married to boot, so...)
Deadpool classics vol. 1. & Mike Benson & Adam Glass: Deadpool - Suicide Kings
Oh Wade. :-)
Historia Augusta
It amuses me that the bits that seem to scandalize the original authors the most - like women daring to get involved in Senate business - are most likely to just make me shrug. And really, some of this is basically gossip rag literature - that emperor was mad and had so many boyfriends and was so, so evil that his own soldiers killed him (never mind that death by own soldiers seems to have been the most common cause of death among these emperors...)
Laurie R. King
Pirate King
So, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes and pirates. Well, a silent film production about pirates - except there are pirates. And quite a few piratical tropes worked in and played with - like the traditional girl-disguised-as-boy-to-get-aboard getting turned upside down. Fun, but not more than that.
Terry Pratchett
Snuff
Okay. This was fun - I liked the Jane-Austen-meets-the-Mississippi countryside and several of the new characters, and there were much entertainment, but - how to put this. It - wasn't as fun as Discworld novels normally manage to be. It didn't feel quite - look, the Ankh-Morpork B-plot didn't start until nearly halfway, the ending felt rushed, there was one bit that seemed like the same thing was basically repeated twice in slightly varied ways, there were bits of main text that felt like it would have worked better as a footnote, and a complete absence of Death. I don't know. I liked the novel, I did - but I'm wondering if this is the Alzheimer's or simply the difference between actually writing and dictating a novel showing or what. And it makes me worry, just a bit.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 27
Currently reading: none - just finished one
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