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What did I read on summer vacation? The better question would be what didn't I read. 2 weeks without (much) Internet made me much less distracted.
1. I finished (I had already started it) Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown. I thoroughly enjoyed it. A pirate queen kidnaps a chef and makes him cook for her.
2. I re-read The Hobbit.
3. I read Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. I had read the first three Books in the Earthsea series when I was a child and, given where I was reading this collection of short stories, well, it was very fitting. I espescially loved the first one.
3. Winterwood by Patrick McCabe I didn't enjoy. At all. It was very disturbing and at the same time quite difficult to figure out what was actually going on.
4. Fludd by Hilary Mantel. This was better than Winterwood but definitely not the best thing I read this summer. I enjoyed the little Irish Nun character.
5. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. I loved this so much. There are supernatural elements but the real star of the show is 19th Century New York. The characters, even the non-human ones are quite well-fleshed-out.
6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. I laughed out loud so many times while reading this. I loved it. Mr. Sedaris and I actually have a bit in common, I think.
7. The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss. Jane Austen and alchemy. It was fun but not Liss' best. I enjoyed The Coffee Trader, his non-supernatural historical fiction, which I read a couple of years ago, more.
8. The Woodcutter by Kate Danley. It was alright but not the best fracture fairly tale I've ever read. That title belong to either The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber or The Book of Lost Tales by John Connolly.
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