I’ve ready my weight in books
Wednesday 3rd March 2010 7:55 pm
I started in January 2008, so it’s taken two years (I’ve been too distracted by curling to post this for the past couple of weeks).
And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer
Excitingly, I read this on dad’s ebook reader (and weighed the reader – which weighs less than a book…). It didn’t grab me quite like the other Hitchhiker’s books. It was better than the abridged reading on Radio 4 because some of the stuff they did made sense in the book. I can’t say I’m particularly compelled to read it again, though.
Simon’s Cat by Simon Tofield
This is funny – which isn’t a surprise if you’ve seen any of his films. The book is images, some of which are funny on their own, some of which tell a story. They describe cats so well – like taking over the whole bed and getting a big new toy and playing with the box it came in. I kept laughing out loud when I read it.
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Well, of course, it’s good. I don’t like football and I liked it. The main characters are the Wizards and some new ones who work at the Unseen University and the new characters are all really interesting and I really liked them.
Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell
I really like this. This is this bloke’s second book with the same characters and he mixes crime and family history. It’s really well done.
Victorian Farm by Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman
This is the book of the series. Some of it I skipped over (like recipes and detailed farming descriptions), but a lot of the rest gives you more detail about what went on and how they felt about it. The most useful thing I learnt was that when you wash your clothes you only need to use washing powder on the stains – your clothes are washed by the water pushing the dirt through the fabric. Ruth said she’d stopped using any washing powder and hasn’t needed to use any for three years. I stopped after Christmas and everything is just as clean as before, so it’s really true.
Bernice Summerfield: A Life Worth Living
I totally read these in the wrong order, as I bought a bundle of seven from Big Finish and picked them up randomly. This one is a collection of short stories set after the war. I quite enjoyed them.
Bernice Summerfield: Life During Wartime
This is the preceding one set during the war. Each story comes after the next in time and it’s really interesting to see how it all progressed and how the war affected them all.
Bernice Summerfield: Something Changed
This one is just weird. There’s one story of set-up and the rest are what-ifs coming from that. Some of them were alright, but mostly I just found it strange.
Bernice Summerfield: A Life in Pieces
This is a trilogy of novellas all telling bits of a story. It’s quite interesting, but I think you really need to read other books/listened to other audios to work out what was really going on. I found the style of the first one very odd for a published book.
Bernice Summerfield: Parallel Lives
Another trilogy of novellas. The first and last ones are really good, but the middle one is terrible. Nothing happens in it at all, which is the point of it, I think, but I struggled to get through it.
Bernice Summerfield: The Big Hunt by Lance Parkin
This was quite interesting. It’s odd having a whole story being only about 160 words because it felt quite short, but at the same time it also felt like it could quite happily be shorter. It’s alright, but nothing special.
Bernice Summerfield: The Tree of Life by Mark Michalowski
I wasn’t that keen on this one at the start and I hated it more as I went through. I hated the descriptions of where they were, the plot was cliched and it was a real struggle to get through.
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