Many books I've been reading

[3rdragon]

Voyager in Night - I enjoyed it, but at this point I read it long enough ago that I don't really remember what, if anything, I was going to say about it here.

Griffin and Sabine - I've actually been reading these all summer, but haven't been mentioning them in my posts because they're so short that I forget about them. I like them. They're a lot of fun, even if Very Strange.

The Ropemaker - Read it before, enjoyed it again, not much to say.

Angel Isle - I re-read The Ropemaker in order to be properly caught up for this one, but given that it occurs twenty generations later, I really didn't need to. I did perhaps notice a few more details, such as the fact that the last chapter of The Ropemaker is the first chapter of Angel Isle, which I'm sure enhanced my appreciation, but I would have managed without. All that aside, I was very impressed by the way Angel Isle, is, in a sense, the same journey as The Ropemaker, but goes in a very different direction. I'm not sure that I agreed with all of his math-magic, but I really enjoyed the way that her incorporated it. I intend to recommend it to smb, with the proviso that she'll have to deal with an alternate universe of seven dimensions, two of which are time.

American Gods - I spent the first half of this book enjoying it, but not sure why simply everyone demands to know if I've read it. I think that I figured out by the second half. I intend to take Anansi Boys to Spain with me if I can find a cheap second-hand copy.

Tentacle babies books - I think that I liked them more than Dawn, actually, although I can perfectly understand why we would read the first one in SpecFic. While I can remember the things I was going to say about this one, it seems a lot of trouble to type them all up for a book I read two weeks ago. Ask if you care to know.

The Goblin Wood - Again, I like the way Bell dealt with issues of honor and gray areas. It also occurs to me that the starting scenarios of both of her books I have read are hardly out of the ordinary - it's where she takes them that makes them stick out. I approve of the decision at the end.

Arabella - Quite sweet; I enjoyed it a lot. I think that I've detected one of Sherwood Smith's influences.

The Snow Queen - While this is hardly the most thought-provoking book I've read all summer, or even close to the best fantasy I've read all summer, it was what I expected it to be and what I was looking for when I picked it up. I'll take it back to the library now.

I'm currently reading Magic in the Mirrorstone, a book of short stories. I'm favorably impressed. I often don't like short stories as much as novels, but this collection is very good. I've finished just about every story thinking either wow, or I liked that one. I especially enjoyed the one about the Cane Toad Princess.



In terms of what's going on, estelwen and I had a fun Philadelphia Day yesterday, even if it was a bit walking-heavy (why is museuming more tiring than hiking up and down mountains?). I could have brought the car, but then there's parking to consider, and traffic, and bleh, and quite possibly there would still have been just as much walking.

I need to remember to make sure that the computer is connected to the internet when I try to post this. Mom's internet is broken and does not look like it'll be fixed soon (AT&T India was unhelpful, and when mom threatened to switch internet service providers, the guy told her to go ahead. She's sure that there's someone in that company who cares about her custom, but she doesn't know how to get to them.), so we're borrowing the neighbors' unsecured wireless network (we did ask - eventually), which is sometimes fine but sometimes patchy.

I'm going to go to tea today with my dad's house neighbor Dee. That will be fun.

It's probably time to take the purple bag out. When I retrieved it from dad's house, I discovered that it had acquired clothing moths. Luckily it's already felted, so I had no compunctions about dumping it in hot water for a while.