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January Booklog
Feb. 1st, 2013 10:38 pmBefore I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson
World War Z - Max Brooks (reread)
Be My Enemy, or Fuck This For a Game of Soldiers - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
Not The End of the World - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
Mostly rereads this month, I decided to ease my way into the year with tales of zombies, amazing self-decapitating ninjas, and glasgow grannies co-opted into shadowy underground organisations. As this is the second - and in the case of Be My Enemy the, like, fourth or fifth - time I've read these you can consider them all pre-recommended. Actually, the only one that hasn't held up quite as well as the others is Not The End of the World; it's still pretty good, and the observation that anyone in the West of Scotland supporting anyone other than Rangers or Celtic is considered to be displaying a perverse interest in football rather than the matter at hand: bigotry, is still one of my favourite Brookmyre lines, but it's set in 1999 and Millenium hysteria is a big theme in it so it's, ah, showing its age somewhat.
Of the two that I hadn't read before Before I Go To Sleep is pretty much your average meh thriller, and I spent far too much of it considering that a type of amnesia that erases your memory every twenty-four hours but otherwise doesn't impair your cognitive function is very.... um, narratively convenient.
I really, really liked The Casual Vacancy, I mean obviously very different from her Harry Potter books - except, I think, they were similar stylistically in a way that made them easy to read - and I sort of knew from seeing interviews with her that JK Rowling was interested in classism. And I didn't think all the characters were unsympathetic at all, in many case they were petty and awful and, you know, Tory, but they all felt very real. And I thought Andrew, Suhkvinder and Krystal especially were incredibly sympathetic. So, yeah, I liked it a lot.
World War Z - Max Brooks (reread)
Be My Enemy, or Fuck This For a Game of Soldiers - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
Not The End of the World - Christopher Brookmyre (reread)
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
Mostly rereads this month, I decided to ease my way into the year with tales of zombies, amazing self-decapitating ninjas, and glasgow grannies co-opted into shadowy underground organisations. As this is the second - and in the case of Be My Enemy the, like, fourth or fifth - time I've read these you can consider them all pre-recommended. Actually, the only one that hasn't held up quite as well as the others is Not The End of the World; it's still pretty good, and the observation that anyone in the West of Scotland supporting anyone other than Rangers or Celtic is considered to be displaying a perverse interest in football rather than the matter at hand: bigotry, is still one of my favourite Brookmyre lines, but it's set in 1999 and Millenium hysteria is a big theme in it so it's, ah, showing its age somewhat.
Of the two that I hadn't read before Before I Go To Sleep is pretty much your average meh thriller, and I spent far too much of it considering that a type of amnesia that erases your memory every twenty-four hours but otherwise doesn't impair your cognitive function is very.... um, narratively convenient.
I really, really liked The Casual Vacancy, I mean obviously very different from her Harry Potter books - except, I think, they were similar stylistically in a way that made them easy to read - and I sort of knew from seeing interviews with her that JK Rowling was interested in classism. And I didn't think all the characters were unsympathetic at all, in many case they were petty and awful and, you know, Tory, but they all felt very real. And I thought Andrew, Suhkvinder and Krystal especially were incredibly sympathetic. So, yeah, I liked it a lot.