Dead Captain's Fantasy Chato
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maribou(almost 2 weeks since my last book post, and I don't really have enough to need a cut. shocking!)
Captain's Fury, by Jim Butcher
This is the second time in a row that I started the latest book in this series all dubious and 'I dunno if this book is going to be as good as the last one', and then ended up so immersed that I cried at some point, and ended up really liking the book as a whole. Dunno if Butcher's beginnings are weak or I'm just too initially cynical for my own good.
(38/300)
The Dead Fathers Club, by Matt Haig
Imagine Hamlet as an 11-year-old British boy who never ever uses apostrophes or quotation marks. Imagine![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maribou digging a book so much that it only took her 30 pages to get over the lack of '. Yup. This book is exactly that weird, and that good. Very different from the play it constantly alludes to, but satisfyingly and affectionately so.
(39/300)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1, edited by Jonathan Strahan
I read this too soon after YBFH; there was a lot of overlap and I couldn't be bothered to reread most of the repeats. But the stories I hadn't read before were uniformly excellent.
(40/300)
Chato y su cena, by Gary Soto
This was quite a bit more linguistically complicated than the last Spanish kids' book I read. I think I'll probably reread it with a dictionary before I give it back. But it was very fun puzzling it out. Archetypal plot - cat tries to trick a bunch of rats into being dinner by telling them they'll be eating it, hijinks ensue. The illustrations were wonderfully colorful and energetic.
(41/300 - eesh, I'm behind; stupid February)
Captain's Fury, by Jim Butcher
This is the second time in a row that I started the latest book in this series all dubious and 'I dunno if this book is going to be as good as the last one', and then ended up so immersed that I cried at some point, and ended up really liking the book as a whole. Dunno if Butcher's beginnings are weak or I'm just too initially cynical for my own good.
(38/300)
The Dead Fathers Club, by Matt Haig
Imagine Hamlet as an 11-year-old British boy who never ever uses apostrophes or quotation marks. Imagine
maribou digging a book so much that it only took her 30 pages to get over the lack of '. Yup. This book is exactly that weird, and that good. Very different from the play it constantly alludes to, but satisfyingly and affectionately so.(39/300)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1, edited by Jonathan Strahan
I read this too soon after YBFH; there was a lot of overlap and I couldn't be bothered to reread most of the repeats. But the stories I hadn't read before were uniformly excellent.
(40/300)
Chato y su cena, by Gary Soto
This was quite a bit more linguistically complicated than the last Spanish kids' book I read. I think I'll probably reread it with a dictionary before I give it back. But it was very fun puzzling it out. Archetypal plot - cat tries to trick a bunch of rats into being dinner by telling them they'll be eating it, hijinks ensue. The illustrations were wonderfully colorful and energetic.
(41/300 - eesh, I'm behind; stupid February)
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Date: 2008-02-29 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-01 06:30 am (UTC)My Spanish is pretty limited too. I wouldn't want to try having much of a conversation beyond customer-service-desperation ... but I do speak French fluently, and when the words are sitting all nice and still on the page, I have half-a-shot at figuring out what's going on.