Reading Update #7
Oct. 16th, 2005 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixenIt's been a little longer than usual since I posted a reading update. There's been a lot going on, so the reading input is probably going to go down.
On the Anne Perry front, I've worked through Bluegate Fields, Resurrection Row, and Death in the Devil's Acre. I may pick up some of the newer covers however, as they have more character than the ones I have. Just a thought. They remain pretty uniformly good, and are serving as the mystery-popcorn genre.
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is one of those modern classics. Modern, of course should be in big bold letters. The style is sort of interesting, but I was hoping for more about the actual affair. Also, the narrator is sort of pitiable. But not bad.
Brave Men, Gentle Heroes by Michael Takiff, was an excellent book, with stories of fathers and sons who served in WW2 and Vietnam, respectively. Some of them were better than others, but the opening pairs of stories is particularly interesting, a father and son who flew dustoffs in Vietnam in the same unit. As of the book's writing in 2002, they were the only pair to have done so, but I wouldn't be surprised if the current conflict produces some similar stories. It's a hardcover, but I keep seeing it at the bargain table at Barnes and Noble, and it's definitely worth it.
On the advice of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
celticdragonfly, I picked up Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. This was an interesting read on the history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Nancy. If you're at all interested in that aspect of the story of Nancy, it's definitely a quality read. And yes, I was like 16 before I discovered that Carolyn Keene was not a real author. I really don't care. I still like to hang out with Nancy and the gang.
It helped that I had read the above book before I read Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (A Parody) by Chelsea Cain. Some of the in-jokes involving other Stratemeyer Syndicate characters, and there is some poking fun at the grown-up Nancy Drew fans. It was an incredibly funny book, to me at least.
Marque and Reprisal, the second book in Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War series, was pretty good. I'd had the hardcover for awhile, and finally sat down and read it while I was inprocessing. I like Kylara Vatta a bit more than I liked Heris Serrano or Esmaya Suiza - she combines the better parts of the both of them, although she's still young and rash - but she's getting to recognize it. It's sort of like the Familias Regnant books, but not quite. Looking forward to the next book in March.
Courtesy of Amazon.com, I have ordered the new Honor Harrington book. Of course, to get the Super Saver shipping, I had to order some more, to get over $25. :) I also ordered Girl Sleuth by Bobbie Ann Mason (another book about the Nancy Drew phenomenon and effect on young women) and Beneath a Silent Moon by Tracy Grant, a darker Regency.
DV
On the Anne Perry front, I've worked through Bluegate Fields, Resurrection Row, and Death in the Devil's Acre. I may pick up some of the newer covers however, as they have more character than the ones I have. Just a thought. They remain pretty uniformly good, and are serving as the mystery-popcorn genre.
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is one of those modern classics. Modern, of course should be in big bold letters. The style is sort of interesting, but I was hoping for more about the actual affair. Also, the narrator is sort of pitiable. But not bad.
Brave Men, Gentle Heroes by Michael Takiff, was an excellent book, with stories of fathers and sons who served in WW2 and Vietnam, respectively. Some of them were better than others, but the opening pairs of stories is particularly interesting, a father and son who flew dustoffs in Vietnam in the same unit. As of the book's writing in 2002, they were the only pair to have done so, but I wouldn't be surprised if the current conflict produces some similar stories. It's a hardcover, but I keep seeing it at the bargain table at Barnes and Noble, and it's definitely worth it.
On the advice of
celticdragonfly, I picked up Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. This was an interesting read on the history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Nancy. If you're at all interested in that aspect of the story of Nancy, it's definitely a quality read. And yes, I was like 16 before I discovered that Carolyn Keene was not a real author. I really don't care. I still like to hang out with Nancy and the gang.It helped that I had read the above book before I read Confessions of a Teen Sleuth (A Parody) by Chelsea Cain. Some of the in-jokes involving other Stratemeyer Syndicate characters, and there is some poking fun at the grown-up Nancy Drew fans. It was an incredibly funny book, to me at least.
Marque and Reprisal, the second book in Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War series, was pretty good. I'd had the hardcover for awhile, and finally sat down and read it while I was inprocessing. I like Kylara Vatta a bit more than I liked Heris Serrano or Esmaya Suiza - she combines the better parts of the both of them, although she's still young and rash - but she's getting to recognize it. It's sort of like the Familias Regnant books, but not quite. Looking forward to the next book in March.
Courtesy of Amazon.com, I have ordered the new Honor Harrington book. Of course, to get the Super Saver shipping, I had to order some more, to get over $25. :) I also ordered Girl Sleuth by Bobbie Ann Mason (another book about the Nancy Drew phenomenon and effect on young women) and Beneath a Silent Moon by Tracy Grant, a darker Regency.
DV
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Date: 2005-10-18 09:50 am (UTC)