25 January 2009, 11:01 PM

Reading - December 2008

What I read last month:

• Reread the first three books of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain chronicles. This was sort of an experience--I haven't read them since I was an early teenager, and I'd forgotten how uncomplicated they are. Lots of things are only a day's journey--maybe two--although this might extend as long as a few weeks if necessary for the plot. Character development is told as often as shown, although this gets a bit better by the third book. Still, they feel more like the outline of a book I'd read now than a whole book in and of themselves. I'm wondering if I'll feel the same way when I reread Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence--long my favorite books in the wrold.
• The second and third Buffy Season 8 comic compilations. Not sure about the whole Buffy/Satsu thing. Sure, women have more flexible sexuality in general, but...somehow, in my head, just not Buffy. The Master and Xander, however, cracked me up like nobody's business.
• Peter Sagal's Book of Vice. review--three and a half stars
• Leonie Swann's Three Bags Full. review--four stars
• Robert Sawyer's Hominids. review--three stars
• Jo Walton's Farthing. review--five stars

Thus wrote Melanie in the categories: Reading
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