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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.
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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 (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 donesome 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)?
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.
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 (
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
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)?
