Posted in books, reading on October 14, 2007| Leave a Comment »
It seems like I’m in a reading mode right now…
I re-read Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci books
Charmed Life
Witch Week
The Lives of Christopher Chant
They are not that popular here in Sweden, so I haven’t even SEEN any others… 😦
I like them.
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Lovely little fairytale 🙂
Eva Ibbotson: A Company of Swans
I love her romance novels 🙂 They make me so happy and in love with the whole world 🙂
Posted in reading on October 10, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Charlotte Haptie:
– Otto and flying twins (1) and
– Otto and the bird charmers (2)
I like these a lot though they are hard to read – emotionally… I really hate persecution… *brr*
Michael Buckley:
–Sisters Grimm I: The Fairy-tale Detectives;
-Sisters Grimm II; The Unusual Suspects
Lovely LOL
Karen Stolz: World of Pies
Very nice 🙂 With recipes…
James Redfield: The Celestine Prophecy
It’s not good enough to be a good adventure story, though the idea is good; and not good enough to be a good spiritual self-help kind of a book either… But it gave me something 🙂
Sue Monk Kidd: Secret Life of Bees
I liked this one too 🙂
Dean R. Koonz: Odd Thomas
There’s a twist in the story… I cried rivers in the end…
Posted in books, reading on September 26, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Paul Sussman; The Lost Army of Cambyses
Worthless and outdated debut novel of an archaeologist… The characters are interesting, the story also, but the writing is… awful.
I actually discovered the secret of quick reading – I read about one sentence on every page, but I still got a clear appreciation of the book and it took me about an hour to read it… (~400 pages) So not total waste of time >:-> Now I at least know not to read another Sussman ever again 😀
Arturo Pérez Reverte; The Club Dumas
To my big surprise I found out that this is the novel the somewhat weird movie “The Ninth Gate” is based on… I like the book lot better than the movie.
Tim Powers; Anubis Gates
Very interesting story… I definitely want to read more by him 🙂
Eva Ibbotson; A Countess Below the Stairs
This is the first book for adults she has written I have read. I liked it. 🙂 Gives a nice spectrum of Eva’s capacity; from the children’s books (like Ghost Rescue) through the teenagers’ books (river sea and Star of Kazan) to these romance novels – she has a very nice style and sense of humor, and her love of animals and children is so clearly present… Honorable Olive is so wonderfully lovely and alive *_*
Lily Prior: La Cucina
Lily Prior: Nectar
I read these both, like them, but… I am not too fond of her writing. Interesting little books.
Posted in books, reading on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »
I have been reading some books lately… In the beginning of September I visited the library and found some books I have been wanting to read for some time now.
Kate Mosse: The Labyrinth
03-09-07
I liked it. It’s not as good as Katherine Neville’s Eight, but better than Da Vinci Code. I like the mystery part of the book – the idea of that the secret is being protected by Goddess herself and thus it won’t open if you are not worthy…
J.K.Rowling: Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows
09-09-07
Not as good as the previous books but she manages to keep me reading. I found this book a good closure to the series.
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason: The Rule of Four
14-09-07
I liked it a lot. I liked the friendship and the idea of that someone had saved the books we know of but have been lost to ignorance and fundamentalism…
Iain Pears: The Portrait
17-09-07
WHOAH! A wonderful little book! So unexpected end… I think this was the best of these books
Eva Ibbotson: The Star of Kazan
19-09-07
Reliable Ibbotson quality. She is like Astrid Lindgren, hates when children and animals get hurt, and she “saves” them by writing a good ending to the stories.
Warning for sensitive readers: some animal abuse. A spaniel get burned badly and loses his leg, tail and eye – a horse gets somewhat abused as well.
Allen Kurzweil: A Case of Curiosities
21-09-07
Interesting…
Posted in books, crone, reading, shrone on August 13, 2007| Leave a Comment »
I found something today… Hall of Shrones. These people sound all like interesting people 🙂 Yeah, I want to be just like that, when I’m… er… well… some day 😀
But it is an interesting goal though… how to be a dirty old grand dame?
I also found something else… LibraryThing… where you can catalogue your books… I have been doing that the last couple of days and so far I have listed about 600 books… and still about half undone… My hubby and I estimated our common library to be about 1500 volumes. We love books 🙂
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