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March Booklog
Apr. 1st, 2012 12:59 amMost of this month was spent plodding through The Deed of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth Moon. Well, plodding might be a bit of a harsh word for it, I must have been enjoying it because I'm not one of those people who feels compelled to finish a book I'm hating, but, well, it was 1200 pages, and the first third or so, where Paks is with the mercenaries was very hard going. Marching. Sword drill. More marching. Yet more marching. Laying siege to a city that is almost indistinguishable from the last three cities they laid siege to. But it perked up after that. I liked Paks's asexuality, and it played into all my female knight hot buttons, and if nothing else it's taken a fair chunk out of Mt. ToBeRead...
The Queen of Kings - Maria Dahvana Headley In which Cleopatra is vampire (sort of) which sounds like it should be completely mad but is, in fact, unutterably brilliant.
The Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin One of these days I am going to get around to reading more Le Guin than her short stories (both Left Hand of Darkness and Lavinia are lurking somewhere in Mt.ToBeRead) but I do really enjoy the short stories. And it was pretty cool to see what all those sedoretu AUs I've been reading were based on.
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe I am a child. I have no regrets.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling This was the one where Harry got a bit shouty, didn't he? Well, I always thought he a was a bit too well adjusted for a kid that had spent ten years in a cupboard. It was also the one which had me going: MCGONAGALL FOR KING!
The Queen of Kings - Maria Dahvana Headley In which Cleopatra is vampire (sort of) which sounds like it should be completely mad but is, in fact, unutterably brilliant.
The Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin One of these days I am going to get around to reading more Le Guin than her short stories (both Left Hand of Darkness and Lavinia are lurking somewhere in Mt.ToBeRead) but I do really enjoy the short stories. And it was pretty cool to see what all those sedoretu AUs I've been reading were based on.
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe I am a child. I have no regrets.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling This was the one where Harry got a bit shouty, didn't he? Well, I always thought he a was a bit too well adjusted for a kid that had spent ten years in a cupboard. It was also the one which had me going: MCGONAGALL FOR KING!