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vivdunstanLots more books finished since last time. Rather a mixed bag.
The graphic novel Robyn from Blue Fox Comics was a gender-swap reworking of Robin Hood. Nice artwork, but often confusing storytelling.
Manga Insomniacs After School continues to delight. An innocent coming of age story, involving two likeable kids, and some astronomy.
The second Bridgerton book started off really well. Sparkling verbal repartee between the two lead characters. But the writing went significantly downhill later.
I adore The Lord of the Rings. So I was very very happy rereading Fellowship. Will continue with the rest in the coming months.
Queen Macbeth was a historically grounded retelling of the true historical character that Shakespeare misrepresents. Until it went off into sheer flights of fancy. It also felt like what should have been a much longer book that turned into so many "then this happened" in the breathless closing pages. However I'm glad I read it, not least after seeing (online) Val McDermid talk recently about it at the Edinburgh Book Festival. It's also a quick read, more of a novella. One of a series of "Darkland Tales" retelling Scottish history in that format.
The Adapting Tolkien book of seminar papers was a varied set, some less successful than others. I was exasperated by how poorly the illustrations for one paper - so essential to what it was discussing - were reproduced in the Kindle ebook. Luckily I found a YouTube video of the original seminar paper presentation! But an interesting mix, ranging across within Tolkien's Legendarium, Elvish in the films, the Folio Society's illustrated Silmarillion, and the process of naming astronomical objects after Tolkien names. And more.
The graphic novel Robyn from Blue Fox Comics was a gender-swap reworking of Robin Hood. Nice artwork, but often confusing storytelling.
Manga Insomniacs After School continues to delight. An innocent coming of age story, involving two likeable kids, and some astronomy.
The second Bridgerton book started off really well. Sparkling verbal repartee between the two lead characters. But the writing went significantly downhill later.
I adore The Lord of the Rings. So I was very very happy rereading Fellowship. Will continue with the rest in the coming months.
Queen Macbeth was a historically grounded retelling of the true historical character that Shakespeare misrepresents. Until it went off into sheer flights of fancy. It also felt like what should have been a much longer book that turned into so many "then this happened" in the breathless closing pages. However I'm glad I read it, not least after seeing (online) Val McDermid talk recently about it at the Edinburgh Book Festival. It's also a quick read, more of a novella. One of a series of "Darkland Tales" retelling Scottish history in that format.
The Adapting Tolkien book of seminar papers was a varied set, some less successful than others. I was exasperated by how poorly the illustrations for one paper - so essential to what it was discussing - were reproduced in the Kindle ebook. Luckily I found a YouTube video of the original seminar paper presentation! But an interesting mix, ranging across within Tolkien's Legendarium, Elvish in the films, the Folio Society's illustrated Silmarillion, and the process of naming astronomical objects after Tolkien names. And more.
- Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
- The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien
- The Incomplete Framley Examiner
- Once Upon A Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
- The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
- The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
- What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama
- The Ghost Cat: 12 decades, 9 lives, 1 cat by Alex Howard
- Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You edited by Adam Kay
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Delicious in Dungeon (manga) volume 1 by Ryoko Kui
- 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed
- The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
- Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine
- The Path of Daggers (Wheel of Time book 8) by Robert Jordan
- Grognard: Ruminations On 40 Years in Gaming by Loren Wiseman
- A Blend Of Magic by Kate Kenzie
- The Tale of Toxic Positivity: A Parody by Beatrix Pottymouth and Paul Magrs
- Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs
- Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying by George Mann and Dan Boultwood
- Macbeth (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos
- Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman
- Sigrid Rides: The Story of an Extraordinary Friendship and An Adventure on Two Wheels by Travis Nelson
- Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
- The Knight Blooms Behind Castle Walls Vol. 1 by Masanari Yuduka
- London Tide: based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend by Ben Power
- Bridgerton: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
- Insomniacs After School (manga) volume 1 by Makoto Ojiro
- The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
- Robyn Volume One - No One Above Another (graphic novel) by Simon Birks et al
- Insomniacs After School (manga) volume 2 by Makoto Ojiro
- Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
- Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
- Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar. Peter Roe Series XX edited by Will Sherwood