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Feb. 25th, 2012 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsWhen jothra was here last month, I started trying to explain to her a book I remembered from when I was a kid that I had a vague desire to reread. It was called The Reluctant God and it was about the teenaged daughter of an archaeologist who accidentally wakes up a teenaged boy mummy and then they have a thing.
JO: That sounds just like a graphic novel by Joann Sfar called The Professor's Daughter!
BECCA: . . . there are two books with that plot?
(I should not have been surprised really by this, in hindsight.)
JO: Yes! It's great! Read it!
And I couldn't find The Reluctant God anywhere, so I did!
It turns out that The Professor's Daughter is not quite like The Reluctant God. For one thing, there is no buildup; the first page involves the professor's daughter taking her father's sexy mummy out on a Victorian-style date, and things spiral from there.
And by spiral, I mean AT LIGHTSPEED. There is A LOT of action. SO MUCH action. The professor's daughter accidentally kills some people! The mummy's evil mummy dad pops up and starts menacing people! Queen Victoria gets kidnapped, proposed marriage to, and then tossed in the English Channel!
It's all lols and hijinks and slapstick mostly, although I felt at times kind of weird about how much lols and hijinks and slapstick there was given how many people end up dead. Still, if you have been craving Victorian mummy romance, this is definitely the book for you!
jothra was here last month, I started trying to explain to her a book I remembered from when I was a kid that I had a vague desire to reread. It was called The Reluctant God and it was about the teenaged daughter of an archaeologist who accidentally wakes up a teenaged boy mummy and then they have a thing.JO: That sounds just like a graphic novel by Joann Sfar called The Professor's Daughter!
BECCA: . . . there are two books with that plot?
(I should not have been surprised really by this, in hindsight.)
JO: Yes! It's great! Read it!
And I couldn't find The Reluctant God anywhere, so I did!
It turns out that The Professor's Daughter is not quite like The Reluctant God. For one thing, there is no buildup; the first page involves the professor's daughter taking her father's sexy mummy out on a Victorian-style date, and things spiral from there.
And by spiral, I mean AT LIGHTSPEED. There is A LOT of action. SO MUCH action. The professor's daughter accidentally kills some people! The mummy's evil mummy dad pops up and starts menacing people! Queen Victoria gets kidnapped, proposed marriage to, and then tossed in the English Channel!
It's all lols and hijinks and slapstick mostly, although I felt at times kind of weird about how much lols and hijinks and slapstick there was given how many people end up dead. Still, if you have been craving Victorian mummy romance, this is definitely the book for you!
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Date: 2012-02-25 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-02-25 09:51 pm (UTC)What is this even.
I can't.
TOO MANY EMOTIONS.
(on a totally different note, I adore The Reluctant God. So much. It shaped my feelings on both love and religion.)
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Date: 2012-02-25 09:54 pm (UTC)(I don't remember as much about it as I do Pamela Service's other books -- I loved the boarding school Arthuriana -- but I do remember really liking it!)
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Date: 2012-02-25 09:59 pm (UTC):D ... :| ... D: ... XD
so, you know, those feelings.
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Date: 2012-02-25 10:42 pm (UTC)he's very confused about why she wouldn't want him. ISN'T HE AN ATTRACTIVE BANDAGE-WRAPPED MAN?
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Date: 2012-02-25 09:58 pm (UTC)I found The Professor's Daughter beautiful but not quite my cup of tea. Though I'd love to have artwork done by the artists on my wall, I'm not sure I'd want to read more books by the author.
And I finally have all my icons for this account. *glees*
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Date: 2012-02-25 10:01 pm (UTC)The artwork was really beautiful! I'm glad that this wasn't the first book I read by Joann Sfar, though; I loved Klezmer so, so much, and this didn't quite match up for me. I've got his most famous book, The Rabbi's Cat, on reserve, so we'll see how I feel about that.
:D I love that feeling!
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Date: 2012-02-25 10:03 pm (UTC)If you want to reread it, I'm glad to lend you my copy.
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Date: 2012-02-25 10:44 pm (UTC)I just want a job so I can reliably plan my time.
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Date: 2012-02-27 12:00 am (UTC)WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME OVER AND BORROW IT
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