What've You Been Reading?

[sweet_sparrow]

I don't have a whole lot of time right now as it's Crunch Time with the semester's end and several nasty deadlines - for this week! - looming over me (so my apologies if replies are incredibly slow and/or just fall to the wayside altogether in advance). Please can someone have a talk with Time and have it freeze it until I get/feel caught up on stuff? *whinge*

I've managed to get a neat amount of reading done this month - about 15 books in all and a slew of short stories I haven't bothered to keep track of. The most notable reading of the month is no doubt the two thirds of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy that are out so far: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms, both of which I really enjoyed.

Disappointments of the month were Emma by Jane Austen and Sabriel by Garth Nix, neither of which I finished. I may try them again at a later date.

What about you? What's your reading month been like? What stood out in any way?

Comments

[angrboda]

I'm reading David Eddings' Belgariad saga at the moment, only this time I decided to do it chronologically which means that I started with Belgarath the Sorcerer, one of the two prequel books. Although the plot of it takes place in the years leading up to what happens in the main series, it's actually meant to be read after. It's a good thing I've read these books once or twice before, because it's stuffed to the brim with spoilers.

I'm also reading C.S. Lewis' Perelandra which I'm finding more intersting than good, really. This is the second book of the trilogy and I don't think that it's one I'm going to be revisiting. It's interesting, but that's it, really. (Furthermore my copy is in Norwegian which is sort of like reading danish (I'm danish) with a lot of spelling errors. So it's slow going)

[sweet_sparrow]

Mmm. Do you think you might have liked Perelandra better if you'd read it in English or Danish? *curious* I'm Dutch, but can't read in it easily and often find myself enjoying English visits more than the Dutch one.

[angrboda]

I read the first one in the series in english and also found that initially more interesting than good. Both that and Perelandra ended up grabbing me. The thing about Perelandra specifically for me was the religious aspect which I didn't really get along with, not being a very religious person myself.

I do think, however, that I might have got a little more out of it in english or danish because there were some passages where I was too busy concentrating on getting the norwegian right to be able to fully grasp the concepts that were being presented on the pages so it sort of went a little over my head.

If you like CS Lewis and aren't turned off by strong religious aspects, I'd say definitely give it a go. It's more of a 'grown up' book compared with the chronicles of Narnia. These two were given to me by a coworker who used to live in Norway for a while (hence the norwegian), but the third of the series weren't included. I'm going to give it a little rest and then later have a look around for that last book. Just... NOT in norwegian. ;)

[sweet_sparrow]

I dislike both with a passion, actually. ^-^; From what I've gathered the last book in that series is very heavy on the religious overtones, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Might be worth looking into or ensuring that you've got a library copy to read if you don't like the religious aspect of his works.