Books read in March
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cahnI read a couple of books in the first half of March. I'm also working on the Blanning biography of Frederick the Great (and a couple of other things of that sort) but I keep getting distracted by opera and news articles :P
Crooked Kingdom (Bardugo) - 3+. Sequel to Six of Crows. More of the same: fantasy heists and plots, and the unresolved romantic tension is resolved. I liked Six, so I liked this, as you can see by the fact I finished it (I have a very very low finish rate for sequels these days). Still, I am not entirely sure I would read a third book, so I guess it's good it's not a trilogy.
Spoon River Anthology (Masters, reread) - [note that I wrote this early in March] - I don't really know why I picked this up, but I found it even richer than I did when I first read it as a teenager. I still liked the bit where one tries to tease out all the connections between different town inhabitants, but now that I guess I'm middle-aged it spoke to me as it didn't when I was a teenager: when one has come to the end of one's life, what would be the one thing that one's dead spirit would remember or want to pass back on to the living? What would define oneself?
Homeward Bounders (Jones, reread) - One of the kids asked me for something and I said, "Well, as to that --" and that reminded me that, even though I'd picked up a whole phrase from this book, I hadn't reread this... ever. I'd read it, wow, fifteen years ago now, and bought it because I thought it was so good, but also that ending tied me up in so many knots that I hadn't ever dared to reread it. Well, I reread it, and I'd forgotten just how chock-full that book is of Stuff Happening. One of my favorite DWJ's, except for that ending :P (Which I think is a really good and inevitable ending, it's just...)
(I thought I'd totally remembered a major event that didn't happen. Turns out it was in this marvelous (though also depressing) fic. Also highly recommended is this fix-it fic.)
Chainmail Made Easy: 8 Wicked Weaves with 8 Practical Projects (Baker) - I got this just to learn how to make the dragon chainmail pouch shown on the cover. (Almost everything else in the book I already know how to do.) The instructions are very clear, and the great thing is that he includes two sets of instructions for the difficult part (the dragon inlay), one of which is visual and the other of which is algorithmic, for those who may like one kind more than another. I put in an order for rings at the very beginning of March, as it turns out, so I have something to keep my hands busy after I'm done with the kids' helmets :P
Crooked Kingdom (Bardugo) - 3+. Sequel to Six of Crows. More of the same: fantasy heists and plots, and the unresolved romantic tension is resolved. I liked Six, so I liked this, as you can see by the fact I finished it (I have a very very low finish rate for sequels these days). Still, I am not entirely sure I would read a third book, so I guess it's good it's not a trilogy.
Spoon River Anthology (Masters, reread) - [note that I wrote this early in March] - I don't really know why I picked this up, but I found it even richer than I did when I first read it as a teenager. I still liked the bit where one tries to tease out all the connections between different town inhabitants, but now that I guess I'm middle-aged it spoke to me as it didn't when I was a teenager: when one has come to the end of one's life, what would be the one thing that one's dead spirit would remember or want to pass back on to the living? What would define oneself?
Homeward Bounders (Jones, reread) - One of the kids asked me for something and I said, "Well, as to that --" and that reminded me that, even though I'd picked up a whole phrase from this book, I hadn't reread this... ever. I'd read it, wow, fifteen years ago now, and bought it because I thought it was so good, but also that ending tied me up in so many knots that I hadn't ever dared to reread it. Well, I reread it, and I'd forgotten just how chock-full that book is of Stuff Happening. One of my favorite DWJ's, except for that ending :P (Which I think is a really good and inevitable ending, it's just...)
(I thought I'd totally remembered a major event that didn't happen. Turns out it was in this marvelous (though also depressing) fic. Also highly recommended is this fix-it fic.)
Chainmail Made Easy: 8 Wicked Weaves with 8 Practical Projects (Baker) - I got this just to learn how to make the dragon chainmail pouch shown on the cover. (Almost everything else in the book I already know how to do.) The instructions are very clear, and the great thing is that he includes two sets of instructions for the difficult part (the dragon inlay), one of which is visual and the other of which is algorithmic, for those who may like one kind more than another. I put in an order for rings at the very beginning of March, as it turns out, so I have something to keep my hands busy after I'm done with the kids' helmets :P
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