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books2010-10-31 08:31 am
sweet_sparrow) wrote in books2010-10-31 08:31 am
October Reading!
What've you been up to, bookwise, in October? Read anything you think everyone should read? Something everyone should avoid? Are, or were, you reading anything special for Halloween? Too busy to read?
I'll be diving into Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip after hitting post here. I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the day as my final Tam Lin related book for this month. You could call it my special Halloween read if you liked.
My List of Books as it stands now - I'm not convinced I'll have the time on Monday - is as follows:
- Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block (Didn't finish. FLB's prose and I do not get along.)
- Labyrinth by A.C.H. Smith
- Out of the Silent Planet (Space 1) by C.S. Lewis
- The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia 6) by C.S. Lewis
- The House on Durrow Street (Mrs. Quent 2) by Galen Beckett
- The Witch Queen's Secret (Trystan & Isolde 1.5) by Anna Elliott
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton
- The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Dawn of Avalon (Trystan & Isolde 0) by Anna Elliott
That makes a total of ten books. Possibly eleven if I can get the one I started yesterday finished on time. ^-~ I'm a little surprised, actually, that I don't seem to have managed any non-fantasy books this month. I thik my favourite, despite having a boatload of issues with it, is The House on Durrow Street and Labyrinth is my least favourite. Stick with the movie.
I am, however, all caught up on my coursework reading now. Yay!
I'll be diving into Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip after hitting post here. I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the day as my final Tam Lin related book for this month. You could call it my special Halloween read if you liked.
My List of Books as it stands now - I'm not convinced I'll have the time on Monday - is as follows:
- Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block (Didn't finish. FLB's prose and I do not get along.)
- Labyrinth by A.C.H. Smith
- Out of the Silent Planet (Space 1) by C.S. Lewis
- The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia 6) by C.S. Lewis
- The House on Durrow Street (Mrs. Quent 2) by Galen Beckett
- The Witch Queen's Secret (Trystan & Isolde 1.5) by Anna Elliott
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton
- The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Dawn of Avalon (Trystan & Isolde 0) by Anna Elliott
That makes a total of ten books. Possibly eleven if I can get the one I started yesterday finished on time. ^-~ I'm a little surprised, actually, that I don't seem to have managed any non-fantasy books this month. I thik my favourite, despite having a boatload of issues with it, is The House on Durrow Street and Labyrinth is my least favourite. Stick with the movie.
I am, however, all caught up on my coursework reading now. Yay!
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I haven't read it, but all the friends and bloggers I've heard talk about the book seem to be on opposite sides, though. Either they loved it or they hated it. (I'm oversimplifying, but that's the general impression I was left with.) *ruffles hair* I'm actually having the darnedest trouble getting this answer all linear and coherent. Apologies for any unclarity and odd jumps of topic!
I guess for me the stumbling block is what you say: I was/am under similar impressions that it's the original text with new bits spliced in. So I finally did the smart thing and looked up an excerpt and it doesn't seem to be from the first page or so. (Sadly, it also proved that Grahame-Smith's prose and I do not get along.)
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