Kell Posted August 30, 2006 Author Posted August 30, 2006 Finished The Big OVer Easy - really enjoyed it a lot. I'll definitely be getting hold of more Jasper Fforde novels! Then I read Vampire Muontain, the 4th in the Saga of Darren Shan series - every bit as good as the first three. I shall have to continue getting hold of the rest of these books as & when I can! Also finished Captives by Tom Pow (for CBUK), which was good, but not as good as I thought it might be. Now reading Ithaka by Adele Geras (for CBUK) which so far looks very interesting. It's related to The Odyssey, but it's the story of the women left at home. I'm guessing it's a bit like The Penelopeiad (which I've not read) but aimed at kids in their early to mid teens. I'll let you know how I get on with it...
Louiseog Posted August 30, 2006 Posted August 30, 2006 Finished The Big OVer Easy - really enjoyed it a lot. I'll definitely be getting hold of more Jasper Fforde novels! The Thursday next ones are better I think (not much but better!) The Eyre Affair is the first.
Kell Posted August 30, 2006 Author Posted August 30, 2006 I'll be geting hold of it for sure, in the meantime, i'll be popping your book in the post back to you this weekend. Thanks for the lend - I loved it!
Kell Posted September 4, 2006 Author Posted September 4, 2006 Have just had a bumper morning for books arriving - one small package containing a book to review directly for the author, & another very large box containing 15 books from CBUK to be reviewed over the next wee while. I can see I'm going to be kept busy with these for quite some time!
Kell Posted September 4, 2006 Author Posted September 4, 2006 Ithaka was wonderful & I followed it up with The Tale of the Miller's Daughter by JoSelle Vanderhooft, which was an absolute joy to read. I now have a stack of reviews to write up - 8 in total - so I'm going to be rather busy this next wee while I think!
Kell Posted September 5, 2006 Author Posted September 5, 2006 I gave up on The Queen of Tambourine, as I just wanted to slap the main character & I couldn't get to grips with why she felt she had to write those letters in the first place. I just didn't give enough of a damn to bother reading on to find out as I was so heartily bored with it at less than a quarter of the way through. So, I decided to try Eragon, which is the other reading circle choice for this month, but I'm now having difficulties getting into that one too! I've never really been into sword-&-sorcery type fantasy & have always found the strange names that these characters always seem to have faintly ridiculous. If it doesn't grab me very soon, I'll be getting shot of this one quick-smart & moving onto something else instead.
Kell Posted September 5, 2006 Author Posted September 5, 2006 That's alright though - I have a massive pile of TBRs, so it's not like I'm stuck for choice.
Kell Posted September 5, 2006 Author Posted September 5, 2006 Yup, I'm afraid Eragon is getting ditched. I've been reading it all morning & I'm just not getting into it at all. Am now moving onto Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief by Rick Riorden.
Kell Posted September 5, 2006 Author Posted September 5, 2006 This is more like it - I'm loving Percy Jackson so far! i've actually read the PJ books in the wrong order as I read the sequel about a month ago & really enjoyed it. It's really nice going back to the first one & seeing how it all started out.
Kell Posted September 5, 2006 Author Posted September 5, 2006 Percy Jackson was an excellent read - even better than its sequel. I hope there'll be more books in the series as I'll certainly be picking them up! Now, what shall I read next... I think I'll move onto The Curse of the Gloamglozer by Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell. It's the 1st in the Quint Trilogy of The Edge Chronicles.
Kell Posted September 7, 2006 Author Posted September 7, 2006 Wideacre by Philippa Gregory arrived this morning, so it's been added to my ever-growing TBR list. Finished The Curse of the Gloamglozer & it was excellent. Now moving onto the sequel: The Winter Knights. I hope this one's as good!
Kell Posted September 9, 2006 Author Posted September 9, 2006 Have barely read at all the last two days as I've been so busy. Was out last night & am supposed to be out again this evening, but at the moment, it's looking like I might cancel, as I have had a stonking headache all afternoon. It's easing up a little just now, so I shall see how I feel after dinner. Tomorrow I plan to read almost all day long!
Kell Posted September 10, 2006 Author Posted September 10, 2006 The 3rd book in the Quint sequence isn't out yet, so I'm moving on to the 1st book in the Twig sequence which is Beyond the Deepwoods. If it's anywhere near as good as the Quint ones, I'll enjoy it a lot!
Kell Posted September 10, 2006 Author Posted September 10, 2006 Finished Beyond the Deepwoods already, so im moving onto the 2nd in the Twig Trilogy, Stormchaser. If anyone hasn't read The Edge Chronicles, I can heartily recommend them from what I've read so far!
Kell Posted September 10, 2006 Author Posted September 10, 2006 A record for me, I managed to read 2 books in one day - finished Stormchaser a few minutes ago & it was every bit as good as the others have been! Moving onto Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (3rd in the Twig Trilogy) tomorrow...
Kell Posted September 11, 2006 Author Posted September 11, 2006 These Edge Chronicles are a breeze to read - I'm storming through them all! Finished Midnight Over Sanctaphrax in the bath & it was an excellent conclusion to the Twig Trilogy. Now starting the Rook Trilogy with The Last of the Sky Pirates...
Kell Posted September 12, 2006 Author Posted September 12, 2006 Moving onto the 2nd in the Rook Trilogy - Vox
Kell Posted September 13, 2006 Author Posted September 13, 2006 Have done practically no reading at all today as I've either been out & about with Dale (it was a nice day so we went for a wander) or watching movies (The Phantom of the Opera & Superman II). Read a while in the bath, but I'm a bit headachy tonight, so I think I'll leave off it till tomorrow...
Kell Posted September 14, 2006 Author Posted September 14, 2006 Finished Vox & moving onto the last of The Edge Chronicles; Freeglader tomorrow. Have to say, if anyone hasn't read The Edge Chronicles, do! They're somewhere in between Pratchett & Rowling & are utterly wonderful!
Kell Posted September 19, 2006 Author Posted September 19, 2006 That's me finished with The Edge Chronicles, so expect a slew of reviews shortly. There are another couple of books outwith the trilogies which I'm going to have to try & get hold of & the 3rd in the Quint Trilogy is due out soon too, so I'm not completely done with them yet, I suppose - I've loved every moment of them! Moving onto The Medici Code by Theresa Breslin now...
Kell Posted September 22, 2006 Author Posted September 22, 2006 The Medici Code was excellent - finished it last night. Made a start on Redwall by Brian Jacques today, but I'm not impressed at all. I have nothing against "humanising" animals in a story; giving them voices, or even clothes - but I'm a great believer in consistency. It's my thought that if you have a mouse who's struggling with an armful of hazlenuts, you can't then have a rat on horseback - both direct examples from this book - it just throws the whole perspective out of whack for me. Also, so far, the story is really, really dull. I can't see me finishing this one or the other 3 I was sent - there's just no way I can find a positive slant for a review on them.
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