Books Read in 2010

[rolanni]

Sunshine, Robin McKinley
Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs
'Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Ten-Cent Plague,  David Hajdu
Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart

Comments

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

How did you like THE TEN CENT PLAGUE? I'm planning on reading that sometimes soon (as soon as I work through my present stack of books).

$.10 plague

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I thought it was interesting, a trifle dense, but there was an immense amount of material to cover. What fascinated me, particularly, were how many of the people who were players were people I knew personally -- Harry Harrison, forex -- or who were otherwise also influential in science fiction.

As someone mentioned when I first talked about my impressions of the book, it's not a complete history -- it stops with the revisioning of Mad from a comic to a satirical magazine, but I think the history is worth reading.

Recommendation - read on if your TBR pile is relatively short

[(Anonymous)]

I know Sharon's TBR pile is probably bigger than mine, so I put forth this rec carefully - read only if willing to call the pile short.






Still with me?
Bloody Good by Georgia Evans
Set in a small English village during WWII, the half-pixie village doctor gets support from a Welsh dragon (in the Home Guard), a Devonshire pixie, and a werefox as she tries to repel vampire spies intent on being the first wave of the Nazi invasion. Note a little more romance than Carriger's works.

Lauretta@ConstellationBooks (yes, I DO like mind-benders)

Re: Recommendation - read on if your TBR pile is relatively short

[(Anonymous)]

I'll add two more to the list: Bloody Awful and Bloody Right - the other two in the Brytewood series by Georgia Evans (aka Rosemary Laurey). I enjoyed these and yes, there is a romance in each one, but the stories are fun and the romance isn't overwhelming. They actually have a tie-in to Rosemary Laurey's vampire series, but it's not necessary to know that to enjoy the Brytewood books.

Mary

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Reading Sunshine made me crave cinnamon buns.

[micheledear.livejournal.com]

Robin McKinley is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. I particularly enjoy her retellings of "traditional" fairy tales. Ditto Tanith Lee, and some few others. But McKinley's work in particular hits just the right notes for me, somehow.

I love me the fairy tales.

When I was 6 I had a coopy of the original version of Snow White. You know, the one where at the end of the story, they take the wicked queen and put her in white hot metal shoes then make her dance until she falls down dead. This is the after-dinner entertainment. I was six. Yep. Explains a lot.

It was gorgeously illustrated, too... I can still see the pictures in my mind's eye - but I have no idea where the actual book went. And I haven't been able to find another copy - it was a large black cloth-bound book with a paper jacket. Lovely....

[(Anonymous)]

Pardon the interruption but wasn't it Sleeping Beauty in the metal shoes at her wedding?

Tricia

[(Anonymous)]

Doh! Snow White not Sleeping Beauty.

Tricia