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Day 30

What are you reading right now? What are you thinking of it?

I just started The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Howling first in a new series by Maryrose Wood. which is definitely channeling some serious Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Which is delightful. I hope to like it as I read on, but no doubt you'll hear about it either way...

I also restarted Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief which I think I'll be able to read all the way through. It's like Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series where some of the writing isn't up to my usual standards, but I'm choosing to look past that for an interesting story concept. Keys to the Kingdom was more of a page turner from the beginning, though.

Right now I have a lot of books on knitting out, as I'm trying to go beyond a simple stockinette and also...I don't have very much of anything out. Not much reading focus lately.

MERRY END OF THIS MEME!

Next month,

fabricalchemist decided to return the pain by coming up with a wicked cute photo/picture meme! Tomorrow you have your first break from in weeks, though.

Enjoy it.
November is NaNo and picspam!

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I have one of Sutcliffe's novels waiting to be read, I think Eagle of the Ninth. I read The Shining Company and loved it in a way you can only love a book that was hard to get through. Wolf Song I found tougher to keep reading, because it wasn't assigned reading, but there's no doubt she's a masterful writer. Her stories aren't the kind I usually get into, though. Have to be in a certain mood for taking on a challenge...

I really liked what I managed to read of The Name of the Wind, but it felt mostly like superbly done epic fantasy to me. What was the problem with The Exiled Queen? What does Chima usually write?

I read The Shining Company and loved it in a way you can only love a book that was hard to get through. YES YES THAT is why I love The Sound and the Fury so much, and now I must read this one.

The Name of the Wind was superbly done epic fantasy, and I loved it. But part of The Exiled Queen, when all the characters end up at a school of sorts, felt exactly like Kvothe in the university. Exactly.

She writes fantasy - her first series is set in England now, I guess more paranormal. Her new series is all fantasy, but the first book was definitely more unique and original than the second. I'm not so impressed with The Exiled Queen. Not that I dislike it, but - I feel like she can do so much better.

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