June Books
Jul. 2nd, 2011 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pandop24: The Storyteller Rabih Alameddine
This was absolutely brilliant, full of interwoven stories - so interwoven I kept losing track of who was telling what story! A review described this as a modern day Arabian Nights, and I would have to agree. Definitely worth reading to lose yourself in the history, culture and legends.
25: A Pocket Full of Rye Agatha Christie
After the previous epic this month, this was a nice quick read - I do love Miss Marple
26: Wedlock: how Georgian Britain's worst husband met his match Wendy Moore
This was both fascinating and horrendous. It was very well written, almost too well written as it read like fiction, and I had to keep reminding myself that this was real, this really happened to that poor women. It was amazingly courageous of the women in this case to stand up against society.
27: Black Ships Jo Graham
This was a great retelling of the Aenied, and I love that she thought about it and made a fantasy novel more 'historically accurate' than the Aenied itself. Brilliant characters, and I would love for there to be a sequel. The magic and ritual were very reminiscent of that in The Firebrand - which it would actually make a good sequel to.
28: The State Counsellor Boris Akunin
I am loving this series, very clever and funny. Erast Fandorin is engagingly odd.
29: Dewey: the small town library cat that touched the world Vicki Myron
I borrowed this from Mum, and I really enjoyed it. Dewey sounds like he was a very lovely cat. I have since read some reviews that say he was declawed as well as neutered, and that tarnished it a bit for me. I don't know if I should tell Mum about that and spoil it or not.
This was absolutely brilliant, full of interwoven stories - so interwoven I kept losing track of who was telling what story! A review described this as a modern day Arabian Nights, and I would have to agree. Definitely worth reading to lose yourself in the history, culture and legends.
25: A Pocket Full of Rye Agatha Christie
After the previous epic this month, this was a nice quick read - I do love Miss Marple
26: Wedlock: how Georgian Britain's worst husband met his match Wendy Moore
This was both fascinating and horrendous. It was very well written, almost too well written as it read like fiction, and I had to keep reminding myself that this was real, this really happened to that poor women. It was amazingly courageous of the women in this case to stand up against society.
27: Black Ships Jo Graham
This was a great retelling of the Aenied, and I love that she thought about it and made a fantasy novel more 'historically accurate' than the Aenied itself. Brilliant characters, and I would love for there to be a sequel. The magic and ritual were very reminiscent of that in The Firebrand - which it would actually make a good sequel to.
28: The State Counsellor Boris Akunin
I am loving this series, very clever and funny. Erast Fandorin is engagingly odd.
29: Dewey: the small town library cat that touched the world Vicki Myron
I borrowed this from Mum, and I really enjoyed it. Dewey sounds like he was a very lovely cat. I have since read some reviews that say he was declawed as well as neutered, and that tarnished it a bit for me. I don't know if I should tell Mum about that and spoil it or not.