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I just finished William Gibson’s Idoru the other day. I’d never read any Gibson before, but it’s made me want to check more of his work out.
Currently reading Phil Currie and Josh Young’s Dino Gangs.
If you haven’t yet read “In The Garden Of Beasts” I highly, highly recommend it. It’s a very captivating read.
It wasn’t so much that that bothered me.
It was more the fact that it didn’t really matter, because she just went right back to where she started. Why even bother if she and her loved ones weren’t even going to reap the benefits?
I’m about halfway through Eleanor & Park. I feel like this is not going to end happily. I also started One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child and the Joy of Being One, and I have The Fate of Mercy Alban on the way from the library.
I just finished Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines, and recommend it. It’s about a character who can literally reach into books and pull things out of them. An interesting magical system, and as a sci-fi/fantasy fan I find a novel about a sci-fi/fantasy fan who can actually pull out the things we all read about pretty fun.
Ah, I see. Well, we don’t really know
how much Ursula’s shooting of Hitler in late 1933 changed history. It’s not just about her and her family, though, is it? If she averted the Holocaust, for instance, but there was still some variety of WWII that was fought due to broader historical forces, it’s not a perfect solution, but saving millions of lives is still a good thing, I’d say.
True, if life keeps on going without her after she dies. But if it “resets” with her death, it doesn’t do anyone any good if she kills Hitler and then dies. The idea of an alternate future without Ursula (or without Hitler) isn’t really ever addressed.
Maybe I missed something, though. I got a little bored during the last half of the book and may have skimmed over something.
Atkinson leaves that ambiguous, but I don’t think the universe necessarily “resets.” She just goes back, is reborn and starts another life.
Libriomancer was hella fun. I can recommend the sequel, Codex Born.
I finished Rose Under Fire, a YA novel by same author of last year’s Code Name Verity. It’s a companion book. This is about a teenage American girl volunteering for the war effort (WWII) who is captured and sent to Ravensbrück. It’s pretty graphic about what went on in the women’s camps. It’s good, but not the innovative novel Code Name Verity is.
The Real Boy is a middle reader, it was okay, but this author just isn’t doing it for me. It’s a smartly written book about a boy who works for a magician (fantasy world magician, not performing magician) … but it’s all grim all the time.
Visitation Street was engaging, a crime (sort of, more like a mysterious happening) novel that is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It was published by Dennis Lehane’s imprint, and it’s a very similar tone to his books – it’s really more about the various characters impacted in different ways. It was good enough reading, but the kind of book where in six months I won’t be able to remember any of the details.
After the emotional destruction Code Name Verity wrought on me, I wouldn’t dare pick that up!
I’m just finishing *Shivers VII *(I only have Weeds, the King story left, so that’s a fairly known quantity). Not many standouts in this short horror collection, although Graham Masterton’s Beholder gives Chuck Pahliunuk a run for his money in the gross-out department.
Next up, War for the Oaks, as recommended by AuntiePam.
The February thread is up and running, and may be found here.