April books!
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1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Very well written - the prose managed to be both rich and spare, which is something of an achievement: every word seemed to be carefully chosen and precisely placed. It's an area of history that I know the broad outline of but not the detail, so it was great from that perspective too (I am assuming that it's reasonably accurate, since I haven't heard that it isn't!).
2. The Science of Discworld II: the Globe V. interesting! There were a few places where the book's three identities (Discworld story, science writing, writing about the Discworld) didn't quite mesh, but otherwise great.
3. The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley Very enjoyable take on the Robin Hood legend. I particularly enjoyed the way that Robin's response to hearing about the archery tournament was "Well, that's obviously a trap, and what would we do with a golden arrow if we had one? Also I probably wouldn't win, and did I mention that it's OBVIOUSLY A TRAP?"
4. The L-Shaped Room by Lynn Reid Banks V. engrossing read, apart from the attitudes to race, which were rather... alarming.
5. Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell HI BENNY ILU. (I keep coming back to this and trying to add more words, but I feel this about sums up my thoughts.)
6. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse Oh, I love these books. This is one that I have seen on TV a fair few times so I knew what was going to happen, but I still enjoyed getting there.
7. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Excellent. I did get a bit confused about who was related to who from time to time and could have done with a diagram, but that is a Known Problem with my brain rather than the book.
8. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik Oh Laurence D: I really liked how well his dilemmas were portrayed, you could really feel his struggles to reconcile his ideas of duty, honour and what's right.
9. Doctor Who: Longest Day by Michael Collier I found this one rather uncomfortable reading in places - one of the secondary characters is unpleasantly misogynistic, and though he's not presented sympathetically, it wasn't great fun to read. Also, the women of his species are literally double-tongued (THANKS FOR THAT, BOOK) and when Sam turns up with her single tongue another villain throws some pretty transphobic language at her. :/ On the other hand, it did contain this quote:
2. The Science of Discworld II: the Globe V. interesting! There were a few places where the book's three identities (Discworld story, science writing, writing about the Discworld) didn't quite mesh, but otherwise great.
3. The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley Very enjoyable take on the Robin Hood legend. I particularly enjoyed the way that Robin's response to hearing about the archery tournament was "Well, that's obviously a trap, and what would we do with a golden arrow if we had one? Also I probably wouldn't win, and did I mention that it's OBVIOUSLY A TRAP?"
4. The L-Shaped Room by Lynn Reid Banks V. engrossing read, apart from the attitudes to race, which were rather... alarming.
5. Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell HI BENNY ILU. (I keep coming back to this and trying to add more words, but I feel this about sums up my thoughts.)
6. Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse Oh, I love these books. This is one that I have seen on TV a fair few times so I knew what was going to happen, but I still enjoyed getting there.
7. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Excellent. I did get a bit confused about who was related to who from time to time and could have done with a diagram, but that is a Known Problem with my brain rather than the book.
8. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik Oh Laurence D: I really liked how well his dilemmas were portrayed, you could really feel his struggles to reconcile his ideas of duty, honour and what's right.
9. Doctor Who: Longest Day by Michael Collier I found this one rather uncomfortable reading in places - one of the secondary characters is unpleasantly misogynistic, and though he's not presented sympathetically, it wasn't great fun to read. Also, the women of his species are literally double-tongued (THANKS FOR THAT, BOOK) and when Sam turns up with her single tongue another villain throws some pretty transphobic language at her. :/ On the other hand, it did contain this quote:
The Doctor woke up bewildered, aching and absolutely soaking wet. 'That was some party, Brigadier...' he whispered, hoarsely.So that's something.