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highlyeccentricCurrently Reading: Kingsolver, 'Flight Behaviour'; Ignatiev 'How the Irish Became White'. Others on hiatus.
Recently Read:
Kerry Greenwood, Flying too High, Murder on the Ballarrat Train and Death at Victoria Dock: These were all great fun! I think I understand why 'Flying too High' wasn't turned into a TV episode - the main plot was fine, but the secondary plot about pedophile kidnapping wouldn't make great TV. Murder on the Ballarrat Train was better in book form, I think - much more depth. Death at Victoria Dock was fun.
Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Absolutely *gorgeous* to read, but finicky and demanding to cook from.
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction by Douglas A. Anderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I don't know how long I've owned this for - perhaps since 2009? - but I only just got around to reading it. It's a collection of short stories by authors Lewis is known or supposed to have enjoyed. Not all have much in common with the Narnia books - for instance there was a 'letter from hell' cited as loosely connected to the Screwtape Letters. I skipped quite a few of the stories. However, I really enjoyed E. Nesbitt's "The Aunt and Amabel", about a universe through a wardrobe; and Andersen's "The Snow Queen", which I'd never read before. Foqué's 'Undine' was in there, and glorious; Walter Scott's "The Tapestried Chamber" I also loved.
Up Next: I give up even trying to predict this part.
Recently Read:
Kerry Greenwood, Flying too High, Murder on the Ballarrat Train and Death at Victoria Dock: These were all great fun! I think I understand why 'Flying too High' wasn't turned into a TV episode - the main plot was fine, but the secondary plot about pedophile kidnapping wouldn't make great TV. Murder on the Ballarrat Train was better in book form, I think - much more depth. Death at Victoria Dock was fun.
Plenty More by Yotam OttolenghiMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Absolutely *gorgeous* to read, but finicky and demanding to cook from.
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction by Douglas A. AndersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I don't know how long I've owned this for - perhaps since 2009? - but I only just got around to reading it. It's a collection of short stories by authors Lewis is known or supposed to have enjoyed. Not all have much in common with the Narnia books - for instance there was a 'letter from hell' cited as loosely connected to the Screwtape Letters. I skipped quite a few of the stories. However, I really enjoyed E. Nesbitt's "The Aunt and Amabel", about a universe through a wardrobe; and Andersen's "The Snow Queen", which I'd never read before. Foqué's 'Undine' was in there, and glorious; Walter Scott's "The Tapestried Chamber" I also loved.
Up Next: I give up even trying to predict this part.