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20. Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce (232)
Book 3 in "The Circle Opens" Quartet
I much prefer Pierce's Tortall books - I prefer any given book in the Tortall universe to any book in the Circle universe. I think part of the problem I have with the Circle books is that there are always too many things going on at once, so none of them quite get the time they need to be developed, and neither do the characters. In Daja's Book, for instance, there is the drought, there is the fire (admittedly the two are connected), there is Daja's problems being a cast-out from her people (since a group of her people come around), there is yet another prideful mage (I think there is one in every book) and prideful noble (likewise) to cause problems and/or discord, and then Daja's and her friends' magics get away from them (more than once).
There is more that goes on. It's just too much. The book should be half again as long to encompass it all. But this is one of the two Circle books that I like regardless and therefore do reread occasionally.
21. Sunshine by Robin McKinley (389)
I don't read much vampire lit. In fact, I'm not sure I've read any other at all, though I've seen some movies and a few tv shows (and not just Buffy either). But I am a McKinley fan, and so when her latest book came out, I bought it. I wasn't sure about Sunshine the first time I read it - it is so totally different from all her other books, I really didn't know what to think - but with each subsequent reading, I love it more and more. I identify with the main character, because she thinks things that I would think - when faced with a wold that includes far too many of the bump-in-the-night types of supernatural creatures and nowhere near enough of the three-wishes-and-happily-ever-after sort, she thinks "Who invented this system?"
Some people don't like Sunshine because they find it slow, and at times the action is interrupted for explanation, as it must be in a book about a world so different from our own. McKinley takes great pleasure in giving a huge amount of little details about the universe she has created, little bits of information about different kinds of demons and other Others (non-humans), and for me, things like that can bring a depth to the world that it wouldn't otherwise have. I have to be careful when I pick up this book, because it is very hard for me to put it down again.
Currently reading:
Lint by Steve Aylett (or trying to - I'm not liking this as much as I thought I would)
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
fiveforsilver:20. Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce (232)
Book 3 in "The Circle Opens" Quartet
I much prefer Pierce's Tortall books - I prefer any given book in the Tortall universe to any book in the Circle universe. I think part of the problem I have with the Circle books is that there are always too many things going on at once, so none of them quite get the time they need to be developed, and neither do the characters. In Daja's Book, for instance, there is the drought, there is the fire (admittedly the two are connected), there is Daja's problems being a cast-out from her people (since a group of her people come around), there is yet another prideful mage (I think there is one in every book) and prideful noble (likewise) to cause problems and/or discord, and then Daja's and her friends' magics get away from them (more than once).
There is more that goes on. It's just too much. The book should be half again as long to encompass it all. But this is one of the two Circle books that I like regardless and therefore do reread occasionally.
21. Sunshine by Robin McKinley (389)
I don't read much vampire lit. In fact, I'm not sure I've read any other at all, though I've seen some movies and a few tv shows (and not just Buffy either). But I am a McKinley fan, and so when her latest book came out, I bought it. I wasn't sure about Sunshine the first time I read it - it is so totally different from all her other books, I really didn't know what to think - but with each subsequent reading, I love it more and more. I identify with the main character, because she thinks things that I would think - when faced with a wold that includes far too many of the bump-in-the-night types of supernatural creatures and nowhere near enough of the three-wishes-and-happily-ever-after sort, she thinks "Who invented this system?"
Some people don't like Sunshine because they find it slow, and at times the action is interrupted for explanation, as it must be in a book about a world so different from our own. McKinley takes great pleasure in giving a huge amount of little details about the universe she has created, little bits of information about different kinds of demons and other Others (non-humans), and for me, things like that can bring a depth to the world that it wouldn't otherwise have. I have to be careful when I pick up this book, because it is very hard for me to put it down again.
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21 / 200 total books (10.5%) |
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5 / 50 new books (10.0%) |
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8,387 / 50,000 pages (16.8%) |
Currently reading:
Lint by Steve Aylett (or trying to - I'm not liking this as much as I thought I would)
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois
