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Feb. 2nd, 2009 02:33 pmA couple of ongoing series books to log today -
After reading a few awesome Cadfael fics in the Yuletide archive, I am finally back on the (veeery slow) Big Cadfael Reread I started last spring! The Leper of St. Giles is not a hugely memorable Cadfael mystery, which means that a.) I remembered basically nothing about it when I read it and therefore b.) I have no idea whether I figured out who the murderer was on page five because of my Natural Detectin' Skill (which would be nice to think!) or because I remembered from reading it before. I miss Hugh and I have almost no interest in the leading romantic pairing, but I do adore Brother Mark and Brother Oswin. Possibly because I am basically Brother Oswin. (Clumsy and bumbling, check; blithely optimistic, check; cheerfully oblivious, check!) I can't remember if he turns up in more books but I hope he does!
The other series I have been stalled on for a few months and just got back into continuing is Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles. These are set in a postapocalyptic future where the rule is city-eat-city; they start out with a relatively light coming-of-age-adventure tone for a surprisingly dark universe, and get interestingly darker as they go on. I had Infernal Devices, the third book book, sitting around in my room for months despite the amazing title, but now I am super-excited to read the fourth - in large part because, after being frustrated by my favorite character for three quarters of the book, she pulled it out at the very end and became even more of an AWESOME STONE-COLD BADASS. Everything else I want to say is spoilery!
( YOUR ZOMBIE ROBOT BOYFRIEND IS COMING FOR YOU )
After reading a few awesome Cadfael fics in the Yuletide archive, I am finally back on the (veeery slow) Big Cadfael Reread I started last spring! The Leper of St. Giles is not a hugely memorable Cadfael mystery, which means that a.) I remembered basically nothing about it when I read it and therefore b.) I have no idea whether I figured out who the murderer was on page five because of my Natural Detectin' Skill (which would be nice to think!) or because I remembered from reading it before. I miss Hugh and I have almost no interest in the leading romantic pairing, but I do adore Brother Mark and Brother Oswin. Possibly because I am basically Brother Oswin. (Clumsy and bumbling, check; blithely optimistic, check; cheerfully oblivious, check!) I can't remember if he turns up in more books but I hope he does!
The other series I have been stalled on for a few months and just got back into continuing is Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles. These are set in a postapocalyptic future where the rule is city-eat-city; they start out with a relatively light coming-of-age-adventure tone for a surprisingly dark universe, and get interestingly darker as they go on. I had Infernal Devices, the third book book, sitting around in my room for months despite the amazing title, but now I am super-excited to read the fourth - in large part because, after being frustrated by my favorite character for three quarters of the book, she pulled it out at the very end and became even more of an AWESOME STONE-COLD BADASS. Everything else I want to say is spoilery!
( YOUR ZOMBIE ROBOT BOYFRIEND IS COMING FOR YOU )
