MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

gmw · 02-12-2019, 02:19 AM

Since I was here last:

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. This is the second of the Thursday Next books. It was undoubtedly very clever - the many literary references and the entanglements of time and coincidence and characters from many different stories and the previous novel and so on - but a bit too messy for too long for my tastes. That it left so many strands open for the next books did not help. Still an okay read, but it didn't measure up to the first. 3/5.

A Delicate Truth by John le Carré. Reminded me why I like film adaptations of le Carré books. More in the New Leaf Book Club discussion when it starts.

The Cecelia and Kate trilogy: Sorcery & Cecelia then The Grand Tour and finally The Mislaid Magician by Patricia Collins Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. These are YA historical romance/fantasy epistolary novels that I picked up after seeing positive comments about them on this forum. The first in particular was very good fun, like reading Pride and Prejudice with a touch of magic. (Okay, so the language is not that sophisticated, this is YA, but) Very well done and a firm 4/5. The second was good, but it felt a little slow. Somewhere around 3.5/5. It was still enough fun that I jumped straight into the third book, set 10 years after the first two. Despite what seemed a slightly awkward plot, overly explained at the end, I had fun with this last book too. It lacked the novelty value of the first but I'm still giving it 4/5.

02-12-2019, 02:19 AM	#28056
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	Since I was here last: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. This is the second of the Thursday Next books. It was undoubtedly very clever - the many literary references and the entanglements of time and coincidence and characters from many different stories and the previous novel and so on - but a bit too messy for too long for my tastes. That it left so many strands open for the next books did not help. Still an okay read, but it didn't measure up to the first. 3/5. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré. Reminded me why I like film adaptations of le Carré books. More in the New Leaf Book Club discussion when it starts. The Cecelia and Kate trilogy: Sorcery & Cecelia then The Grand Tour and finally The Mislaid Magician by Patricia Collins Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. These are YA historical romance/fantasy epistolary novels that I picked up after seeing positive comments about them on this forum. The first in particular was very good fun, like reading Pride and Prejudice with a touch of magic. (Okay, so the language is not that sophisticated, this is YA, but) Very well done and a firm 4/5. The second was good, but it felt a little slow. Somewhere around 3.5/5. It was still enough fun that I jumped straight into the third book, set 10 years after the first two. Despite what seemed a slightly awkward plot, overly explained at the end, I had fun with this last book too. It lacked the novelty value of the first but I'm still giving it 4/5.