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.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
This week’s teaser is, again, from Terry Pratchett’s The Light Fantastic (I’m almost finished – really!), p. 157.
Someone who spent his life living rough under the sky knew the value of a good thick book, which ought to outlast at least a season of cooking fires if you were careful how you tore pages out. Many a life had been saved on a snowy night by a handful of sodden kindling and a really dry book.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
This week’s teaser is from The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett, p. 28.
Many of the books were magical, and the important thing to remember about grimoires is that they are deadly in the hands of any librarian who cares about order, because he’s bound to stick them all on the same shelf. This is not a good idea with books that tend to leak magic, because more than one or two of them together form a critical Black Mass.
I’ve been meaning to read as many of Terry Pratchett’s books as possible, and this is a perfect excuse to get started.
Marg, at ReadingAdventures, is hosting this challenge. There are many levels, beginning with Cashier at Ankh-Morpork Mint (1-3 books) on up through Death’s Apprentice (10-12 books). I’m going to shoot for the Academic at the Unseen University (6-8) books, but hopefully I’ll read even more. For more information about the challenge, click on the image.
