Got a bit of a backlog here, but I’ve been busy, busy, busy!

The Light Fantastic is the 2nd in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. This book picks up where the first (The Color of Magic) left off, with Rincewind’s and Two Flower’s adventure. I thought this one was funnier than the first, and I’ve heard they get even better. I have Sourcery (the 3rd in the series – I know you don’t have to read them in order, but I’m anal like that) sitting on my nightstand to read soon. My reading “plan” (read: obsessive list-making) has been a bit thrown off lately due to receiving 3 Library Thing Early Reviewer copies in the space of a week, plus trying to get in some work-related reading.

I received The Bad Book Affair by Ian Sansom as a Library Thing Early Reviewer. This book is part of the Mobile Library Mystery series, but as a mystery it is very disappointing. I was more than 100 pages into the (368-page) book before the mystery appeared, and even then it didn’t play a large part in the book. The book was more about the main character, Israel Armstrong’s, depression over a break-up and turning 30. That said, the book made me chuckle more than once, and I did enjoy the characters. It just wasn’t what I expected.

I received Spinning Forward by Terri DuLong as a Library Thing Early Reviewer, also. This isn’t the type of book I typically read, but I did very much enjoy it. I found the dialogue to be a bit stilted and the Southern dialect to be unrealistic. Maybe it’s regional, but I don’t know very many people who use “it sure nuff is” or call people Miss So’n'So as often as Ms. DuLong inserted those two Southernisms into conversation. However, as she lives in Florida and I don’t, I could be wrong! The plot is very predictable, but that’s ok. The relationships between the characters were very well-done. I particularly enjoyed the Blue Moon scene near the end, and, as a knitter, I enjoyed the knitting references, too. I will pass this one on to my mom, who I think will really enjoy it, and I have already recommended it as a choice for her book club.