Books redux

[julesjones]

I read Light Errant, the sequel to Dead of Light, on Sunday, Yes, in one sitting again. Not quite the same slam in and grab the brain effect as the first book, because it's a "what happened next" and I already knew what the setup was, but still a page-turner. Now I'm somewhat bemused as to how to review it without massive spoilers for the first book. In fact, I'd have liked to discuss the first book in a good deal more detail than I did, but held back because of the spoiler issue.

Also need to review the Fake manga series, having finished that a week or two back.

I bounced into Modesty Blaise yesterday courtesy of a discussion on Making Light, but after that I should tackle some more of the book loot from recent cons, and a couple of beta-reading jobs I've been neglecting for the last month.

And maybe try for 300 words on my *own* book, ditto...

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

slam in and grab the brain effect

Here I sit, writing that that's how literature works, in long sentences with big obscure words, so's I can change my name to "Dr. Esmeraldus."

And you get away with just tossing it onto your LJ.

Bah.

[julesjones]

Yeah, but you need the big obscure words to get the PhD...

I can see myself working my way through desperance's entire back catalogue over the next year or two, because what he does is such a good match for my buttons.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Actually I lied. I don't use many really obscure words. But once as an undergraduate, I used "fruits" as a verb, and confuzzled my professor.