Mar. 17th, 2010

nishatalitha: image: lots of ladybirds crawling up fencepost.  white rope is wrapped twice around top of fencepost (what are you reading)
I have managed to get my tabs down to one row (with room to spare) on Annabelle. Admittedly, I have mainly accomplished this by tagging things on delicious with 'toread' as one of the tags, but still! Success!

We had dinner at home tonight after going grocery shopping - a roast chicken, pesto and cheese on bought bread. Oh, and feta stuffed baby pepperdews. It was yummy, but I much prefer our usual method of going out to dinner first and then going grocery shopping, not least because the supermarket is less crowded later.

[livejournal.com profile] katrin passed Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro onto me some months ago, and I finally got around to reading it at the weekend. Beautifully bittersweet and I really enjoyed them. Thanks!

I am also working my way through the series by Sherwood Smith. I loved the Crown Duel/Court Duel duology when I was a teenager (I always preferred Court Duel of the two, and still do), so when I started following her blog ([livejournal.com profile] sartorias) and found out she'd written a lot more than I'd realised, the city library not being in the habit of collecting them, I went and bought Inda.

And I found it lacked some of the lightness and joy of Crown Duel/Court Duel and I miss that feeling. Rather than buy the rest - I want to read them, but not own them - I asked the library to purchase them and most of her other books (it turns out you can submit one list with one author/multiple titles with isbn and they're okay with that). My request was successful and as a result, I am now slowly working my way through Book Four of Inda: Treason's Shore, which has the same problem as the previous ones.

The world building is well done - it is complex, clearly thought out, there is no one obviously superior country, they all have their own cultures and languages and these make a difference. It is crafted really well. Craftwise, they are much better than the earlier ones. Yet they lack something, and words fail me. Maybe I should have done some more any English Lit at uni and then I might be able to explain properly.

I have similar problem with some of Carol Berg's books, but in that case, I wasn't able to get into an entire series at all and thus didn't read any of it. The Inda books differ because I can get into them, and I am interested in seeing how the story ends, but I'm struggling.

Does anyone else have this problem? Not with these books, necessarily, but in general - respecting the crafting of a book, and liking other books by the author, but just not being able to be caught up by that one (or four)?

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