{"id":799,"date":"2011-10-10T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2011-10-10T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T11:32:41","slug":"the-month-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/the-month-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The month in books"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin<\/a> – Enjoyed this, though watching [character] digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole was painful, not that he had any good options. And now I wait.<\/p>\n

As a side note, I have discovered the best way to read a book in a series after a gap during which I’ve forgotten most of what happened in the last two books: First, I got J watching the HBO miniseries. Then, he read the books. So I waited until he was well into ADwD before starting it. It was like having a voice-activated ASoIaF encyclopedia sitting in my living room. I could just ask, “When’s the last time we saw [character]?” and get a short essay. I plan to try this again sometime.<\/p>\n

The Princess Curse, Merrie Haskell<\/a> – This was fun to read. Not only is it a great book (did I mention you should buy it? you should buy it), but since I critted it, as I read I was thinking, “She changed that, and that…” which was more entertaining than I expected. And I now have a signed copy, which I hope will baffle future lit students.<\/p>\n

Doomsday Book, Connie Willis<\/a> – I hadn’t read this before. I went through it very quickly, so I know I missed things, but I still enjoyed it. (I decided I would skim until they figured out that Kivrin wasn’t in the year she was supposed to be–I didn’t realize this would take most of the book.) <\/p>\n

The Golden Cord, Paul Genesse<\/a> – I plan to pick up the sequel to this soon. I loved the setting of this book, where everyone lives on top of a plateau and dragons and other winged creatures are dangerous, evil, and\/or hated. There are hints of a complex history which I’d like to know more about.<\/p>\n

And this flowchart for NPR’s top 100 SFF books<\/a> has been going around. I tried it out and no matter what I chose, got books I’d already read. Which I guess means…not much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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