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The Singing Sword, by Jack Whyte. It's the sequel to The Skystone, which I read a while ago, and the second in the author's Arthurian series. The setting is Britain at the eve of the Roman Empire's rule, still a good number of years before Arthur is conceived and the title should tell you all you need to know about the main event that closes the book. It's an engaging read, though I found that at the beginning, it took me a few chapters before the writing stopped annoying me (a problem I'd had with the first book) but I chalk this up to the narrator's voice and not the author's, since it's told in the first person and I do believe that I'd probably react the same way if I met such a person in real life. They'd grate slightly at first, but I'd get past it after a while.
Hey, this isn't so bad! I suppose if I stick to this format, I can get it done. Maybe one day actually write true reviews? One can dream.
And now, in no particular order, a list of the books I read in 2006, at least the ones that I remember :
English:
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
The Belgariad all five books (David Eddings)
The Mummy (Anne Rice) -- I have GOT to write a review of this one, it was so bad
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet)
The Last Light of the Sun (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
Granta Jubilee number
The War of the Flowers (Tad Williams)
Strangers in Paradise - Love & Lies vol. 18 (Terry Moore) Okay, this has gone past ridiculous, this is another one I have to write a review about.
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
French:
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (Sébastien Japrisot)
Le tumulte des flots (Yukio Mishima) from the Japanese
Le voleur de vent (Frédéric H. Fajardie)
Les amants du Spoutnik (Haruki Murakami) from the Japanese
La dame de beauté (Jeanne Bourin)
La peste (Albert Camus)
Japanese:
Sailor Moon vol. 1 & 2 (Naoko Takeuchi)
Rereadings:
Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy (Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman)
Hero of Lesser Causes (Julie Johnston) -- if you can get your hands on this one, read it, it's a wonderful young adult novel. Also, it takes place in the Ottawa Valley!
The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)
Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)
That's not even three books a month on average, which is kind of pathetic for someone who used to eat them for breakfast! Still, I know there were more than that, but I can't recall them right now, and that list consists mostly of things I read in the past six months.
Instead of writing a to-read list, I'm trying out a revolutionary new book-shelving system of putting the books I haven't yet read together, as opposed to my previous method of grouping them by author, sometimes by genre, sometime by size. Of the books I mean, not the author.
I'd do the same for the movies I've seen, but I've watched so many in the past few months that I'll leave that for another time.
ETA: a few books I'd forgotten I'd read:
The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
Sideways (Rex Pickett)
Blood Ritual (Frances Gordon)
Reading Lolita In Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
The Singing Sword, by Jack Whyte. It's the sequel to The Skystone, which I read a while ago, and the second in the author's Arthurian series. The setting is Britain at the eve of the Roman Empire's rule, still a good number of years before Arthur is conceived and the title should tell you all you need to know about the main event that closes the book. It's an engaging read, though I found that at the beginning, it took me a few chapters before the writing stopped annoying me (a problem I'd had with the first book) but I chalk this up to the narrator's voice and not the author's, since it's told in the first person and I do believe that I'd probably react the same way if I met such a person in real life. They'd grate slightly at first, but I'd get past it after a while.
Hey, this isn't so bad! I suppose if I stick to this format, I can get it done. Maybe one day actually write true reviews? One can dream.
And now, in no particular order, a list of the books I read in 2006, at least the ones that I remember :
English:
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
The Belgariad all five books (David Eddings)
The Mummy (Anne Rice) -- I have GOT to write a review of this one, it was so bad
The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follet)
The Last Light of the Sun (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
Granta Jubilee number
The War of the Flowers (Tad Williams)
Strangers in Paradise - Love & Lies vol. 18 (Terry Moore) Okay, this has gone past ridiculous, this is another one I have to write a review about.
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
French:
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (Sébastien Japrisot)
Le tumulte des flots (Yukio Mishima) from the Japanese
Le voleur de vent (Frédéric H. Fajardie)
Les amants du Spoutnik (Haruki Murakami) from the Japanese
La dame de beauté (Jeanne Bourin)
La peste (Albert Camus)
Japanese:
Sailor Moon vol. 1 & 2 (Naoko Takeuchi)
Rereadings:
Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy (Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman)
Hero of Lesser Causes (Julie Johnston) -- if you can get your hands on this one, read it, it's a wonderful young adult novel. Also, it takes place in the Ottawa Valley!
The Lions of Al-Rassan (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett)
Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)
That's not even three books a month on average, which is kind of pathetic for someone who used to eat them for breakfast! Still, I know there were more than that, but I can't recall them right now, and that list consists mostly of things I read in the past six months.
Instead of writing a to-read list, I'm trying out a revolutionary new book-shelving system of putting the books I haven't yet read together, as opposed to my previous method of grouping them by author, sometimes by genre, sometime by size. Of the books I mean, not the author.
I'd do the same for the movies I've seen, but I've watched so many in the past few months that I'll leave that for another time.
ETA: a few books I'd forgotten I'd read:
The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
Sideways (Rex Pickett)
Blood Ritual (Frances Gordon)
Reading Lolita In Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
