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luinaldaDid a lot of reading today, which felt good for a change, because otherwise I usually only manage about 10 pages a day (which really is nothing)... But after nearly 2 months with this book I am now quite eager to finally finish it. ;-) Will probably take 1 or 2 more weeks, though.
The book is "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke, by the way. I don't actually love it, but it isn't bad. It's quite easy and fluent to read, despite the archaic spelling of a couple of words (e.g shew, chuse,...). And I really like the setting, 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. :-) I think I especially have to blame Sharpe and Hornblower for my fondness of that time. :D Plus I've always been interested in the French Revolution as well.
There are already 6 new books waiting on my "to read" pile. *yikes* At least 3 thereof I'm looking very much forward to: "Coraline", "The Book Thief" and "Tintentod" (Inkdeath). :-)
The book is "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" by Susanna Clarke, by the way. I don't actually love it, but it isn't bad. It's quite easy and fluent to read, despite the archaic spelling of a couple of words (e.g shew, chuse,...). And I really like the setting, 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. :-) I think I especially have to blame Sharpe and Hornblower for my fondness of that time. :D Plus I've always been interested in the French Revolution as well.
There are already 6 new books waiting on my "to read" pile. *yikes* At least 3 thereof I'm looking very much forward to: "Coraline", "The Book Thief" and "Tintentod" (Inkdeath). :-)
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Date: 2010-04-13 09:04 am (UTC)I can't read a book till the end if I don't like it. But for me it also took a while to read "The Traveler's wife" and "The last Symbol"!
On my future Reading-List are three book from Kathy Reichs and one from Simon Beckett. I love crime!
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Date: 2010-04-13 10:52 am (UTC)But sometimes I like a little crime too.
Have you read "Die Chemie des Todes"? That's the first one in the series, right? I think it sounds interesting and I've heard a lot of good things about it, so I'd like to check it out sometime.
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Date: 2010-04-13 12:08 pm (UTC)Seems that I am a litte fond of Simon Beckett =).
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Date: 2010-04-13 12:22 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll read one of them when I've finished with my pile. ;-) *gg*
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Date: 2010-04-13 03:22 pm (UTC)I actually have several more unread books too. Not quite as many as you, but maybe around 20? But I don't really consider reading them any time soon, just because I lack the interest at the moment... Well, there is one of them I would love to read, but it is the 3rd book in a series, so I'll wait until I have the first two to start with...