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Last night I finished The Sword in the Stone by TH White. It's a children's fantasy classic, and I expected a nice fun light read, but in fact I found it a bit of a slog. The main problem I had was that there was really no momentum to it, no through-line. It felt like it was just a series of disconnected short adventures.
It didn't really even reduce my TBR, since I discovered that my Once and Future King omnibus has five parts, not four.
Before that, I read the multi-award-winning Jack Glass by Adam Roberts, which I liked a lot, but maybe had my expectations a bit unrealistically high. I put it as a good solid 8/10 piece of SF. It is intended to combine some aspects of the Golden Ages of SF and Detection, and incorporates a whodunit and a locked-room mystery, but it still reads as fairly modern, I thought.
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