A Blue Voice
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maribouBlueheart, by Alison Sinclair
I liked this book so much! It was slow and deliberate and information-packed, but with a fascinating setting, great characters who really made you believe in them and interesting interpersonal conflicts. And a good plot. Reminded me of KSR's Mars trilogy, for those reasons. Yum yum yum yum. My sister rocks for sending me this and another Alison Sinclair book for my birthday (on my request because I liked Cavalcade so much) - I should've gotten around to reading this one much sooner. Looking forward to Legacies now.
(202/200)
A Voice from the Attic, Robertson Davies
It's been months since I started this and I don't have a very clear impression of the book as a whole. But Robertson Davies is high on my list of favorite curmudgeons-with-hearts-of-gold and I do love his authorial voice. It's fairly dated, not just because it was written in 1960 but also because of subject matter - either you're the sort of person who'll enjoy reading about Elizabethan joke books, Victorian parlor dramas, and Edwardian self-help manuals, or you aren't.
(203/200)
I liked this book so much! It was slow and deliberate and information-packed, but with a fascinating setting, great characters who really made you believe in them and interesting interpersonal conflicts. And a good plot. Reminded me of KSR's Mars trilogy, for those reasons. Yum yum yum yum. My sister rocks for sending me this and another Alison Sinclair book for my birthday (on my request because I liked Cavalcade so much) - I should've gotten around to reading this one much sooner. Looking forward to Legacies now.
(202/200)
A Voice from the Attic, Robertson Davies
It's been months since I started this and I don't have a very clear impression of the book as a whole. But Robertson Davies is high on my list of favorite curmudgeons-with-hearts-of-gold and I do love his authorial voice. It's fairly dated, not just because it was written in 1960 but also because of subject matter - either you're the sort of person who'll enjoy reading about Elizabethan joke books, Victorian parlor dramas, and Edwardian self-help manuals, or you aren't.
(203/200)
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Date: 2005-10-12 09:47 pm (UTC)