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The latest in books and minor injuries...
Aug. 11th, 2010 09:06 amI'm jumping back into the Wheel of Time series with book 10, Crossroads of Twilight. Enjoying it but I wish the series wasn't so bulky as they keep alluding to events I only vaguely remember and I don't want to take the time to read the earlier 9 books as each is 800+ pages. Mr. Jordon does do a wonderful job of world building and I do like how he turns a phrase but I wish he had a view of woman that wasn't so...juvenile. I don't know that he is really misogynistic but I can see how he could be read as such. Anyway, enjoying it for it's own sack and rolling my eyes when I'm not. I think I will be rereading the books which feature Loial however as I really like him.
At home the spawn and I are reading the first book in the Ulysses Moore series (link will dump you into a flash animation), A Door in Time, which is fun. A little thriller-esk and so the spawn wants us to read it while it's still light out instead of at bed time as we have been. Thus far it reminds me of the Spiderwick Chronicles before the faeries showed. In other words, spooky house whose previous owner was an eccentric the whole town was curious about.
I just realized I never gave my half-assed review of the Children of the Lamp series. It was okay. I think my main beef was two fold. One thing I remember very clearly in the writing classes I took in Art school is that you don't tell the reader things, you show them. Mr. Kerr seems to have forgotten this as he tells us of the world of his Djinn. Also I was hoping for a series that had the Djinn (or Arabic world) overlapped the modern, instead it was the modern world and very English with hints of the Djinn or Arabic. It was like the Arabic was just painted over London but you could still see the English architecture.
In the world of minor injuries, I seem to be having a run of ill luck. Monday night I burnt the inside of my arm on the mini chandelier, bad enough that it is now a blister the size of a half dollar, and this mornign in the dark I hit my forehead against the closet door jam. I hope this is the end though as I don't know if I can make it the week.
Okay back to work.
At home the spawn and I are reading the first book in the Ulysses Moore series (link will dump you into a flash animation), A Door in Time, which is fun. A little thriller-esk and so the spawn wants us to read it while it's still light out instead of at bed time as we have been. Thus far it reminds me of the Spiderwick Chronicles before the faeries showed. In other words, spooky house whose previous owner was an eccentric the whole town was curious about.
I just realized I never gave my half-assed review of the Children of the Lamp series. It was okay. I think my main beef was two fold. One thing I remember very clearly in the writing classes I took in Art school is that you don't tell the reader things, you show them. Mr. Kerr seems to have forgotten this as he tells us of the world of his Djinn. Also I was hoping for a series that had the Djinn (or Arabic world) overlapped the modern, instead it was the modern world and very English with hints of the Djinn or Arabic. It was like the Arabic was just painted over London but you could still see the English architecture.
In the world of minor injuries, I seem to be having a run of ill luck. Monday night I burnt the inside of my arm on the mini chandelier, bad enough that it is now a blister the size of a half dollar, and this mornign in the dark I hit my forehead against the closet door jam. I hope this is the end though as I don't know if I can make it the week.
Okay back to work.
