Gone Reading

[mneme]

I've finally managed to find some free time to read, when I wasn't being addicted to palm games (actually, I accidentally left my Palm at home today for the second time in a row, which would be more annoying if most of its functions hadn't migrated to the Sidekick), wasn't trying to work on my A&E Zine, etc.

It's kinda nice.

Current Novel:

The Grand Tour (sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia)

Recent Reading:

Sorcery and Cecelia (re-read), by Wrede and Stevermer
Crown Duel (the complete version), by Sherwood Smith
The four main-line Liaden novels (by Sharon Miller and Steve Lee)
Hitherby Dragons

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Heh. The Grand Tour is next in my queue, as well (once maya_a is done with it). Currently reading Passages by Connie Willis; it makes for an interesting contrast after Sorcerty and Cecilia and The Thief Lord.

[mneme]

I can see that; Passages is interesting, though I don't like it nearly as much as, say, To say nothing of the Dog. It treats its subject well, though, and has some nice twists.

The Thief Lord is also "interesting" -- itls a better book than her later Inkheart, I think, but not as much fun to me. But as far as cool YA work, I'd like to recommend The Hollow Kingdom, The Stones are Hatching, and The Folk Keeper (by different authors).

I think all of the above have been up for Mythopeic at some point (The Hollow Kingdom and The Folk Keeper were both winners.

[selki.livejournal.com]

I liked The Grand Tour, except it's difficult to tell the characters apart unless Kate trips. At least in Sorcery and Cecelia, one was the town mouse and one the country mouse, so you could figure out who was talking. But the plot and the magic (how it works out, anyway; can't say more without spoilers) was more interesting this go-around (to me).

I liked some parts of the Liaden novels, but not so much near and at the ending.

[mneme]

I did eventually learn to tell C and K appart (among pother things, K uses the dated entry format and C doesn't, and they -are- written by different authors), but you're right; it's a lot harder to tell them appart than in the first volume.

I actually liked the last two (chronologically) Liaden novels a lot better than the second two. Things -Happen-. Whther they're better than the first one (Agent of Change, I mean) is debatable, since Things Happen in that one two, but while I enjoyed the second and third, they are a bit questinable (one being a romance novel with a mary sue angle, the other being a "bridge" novel that really needs the rest of the series to find a conclusion in)