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slemslempikeThe Head of Kaye's - PG Wodehouse
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Death at Wentwater Court - Carola Dunn
The Winter Garden Mystery - Carola Dunn
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Model Misfit - Holly Smale
The Banishment - MC Beaton
Paper Towns - John Green
Lucia and the Diplomatic Incident - Tom Holt (short story)
Falconer's Lure - Antonia Forest
Shards of Honour - Lois McMaster Bujold
Barrayer - Lois McMaster Bujold
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Moving towards the present day, this one's less than a year old! And still I can't remember some of what I read. It's also the last one I can find at the moment.
The Head of Kaye's is a much more straightforward boys' school story than say Enter Psmith. I mean, the Psmith stories are still fairly usual in terms of plot etc, but Head of Kaye's, although it has neat turns of phrase, isn't as funny, nor does it contain anyone as astonishing.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was available on Project Gutenberg, and is Christie's first book. I never really remember Christie books after I've read them, and I can barely remember this one now. I liked seeing Poirot through Hastings' eyes and Hastings' arsery revealing itself more surely.
I'd seen the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries in charity shops, but I wasn't sure which was the first in the series, and also didn't feel like paying £2.50 for something I didn't know if I'd like. Then Amazon had a "buy the first four for relatively little" thing and I downloaded them to my Nook. They are rather nice - I like that the Inspector likes Daisy for her intelligence as much as her looks, and that she's working because she needs to and is good at her job. They are pleasant books and haven't stuck with me very much, but I'll probably keep reading the others happily when I have a chance.
Very much loved Americanah, and the blogposts especially. Then Purple Hibiscus was on a shelf and I loved it even more.
I read Model Geek earlier this year and enjoyed it more than I was expecting. Model Misfit I enjoyed slightly less than I was expecting. She goes off to Japan for a big modelling job, then there is Sabotage and Misunderstanding, and the boy she liked in the first book seems to be going out with a rival model. Except that he isn't, and at the end it's all "oh, silly me", except he never said anything, so he is also to blame.
Banishment was DREADFUL. Simply dreadful. Regency romance where the heroine is beautiful but has failed to marry, and now needs to do so despite her horribly snobbish family.
I wouldn't have read Looking for Alaska so soon after Paper Towns, except that my hold on the Edinburgh Libraries website came up and I needed to finish it within two weeks. So it was a bit samey with John Green being John Green all over the place.
And oh dear, I can't remember the plot of Lucia and the Diplomatic Incident at all, and none of the Amazon reviews are particularly helpful. I think I remember that it wasn't bad, and quite pleasing, but clearly not a great work.
Falconer's Lure is one of my favourite AF books, and consequently one of my favourite of any books. Re-reading now I find Patrick a bit condescending, and before I just thought he was great and Nicola was lucky to have an older child interested in hanging out with her. I feel sorry for Peter, too. I especially like the competitions, and Jon at the breakfast table.
I was enjoying my reread of the Vorkosigan books, but now really regretting that we don't see more of Cordelia as Cordelia, rather than Cordelia as Miles's mother who has a good reputation but we don't see enough of her being awesome to tell. I'd forgotten quite how much of a badass she is, tipping a man's head out onto the conference table.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Death at Wentwater Court - Carola Dunn
The Winter Garden Mystery - Carola Dunn
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Model Misfit - Holly Smale
The Banishment - MC Beaton
Paper Towns - John Green
Lucia and the Diplomatic Incident - Tom Holt (short story)
Falconer's Lure - Antonia Forest
Shards of Honour - Lois McMaster Bujold
Barrayer - Lois McMaster Bujold
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Moving towards the present day, this one's less than a year old! And still I can't remember some of what I read. It's also the last one I can find at the moment.
The Head of Kaye's is a much more straightforward boys' school story than say Enter Psmith. I mean, the Psmith stories are still fairly usual in terms of plot etc, but Head of Kaye's, although it has neat turns of phrase, isn't as funny, nor does it contain anyone as astonishing.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was available on Project Gutenberg, and is Christie's first book. I never really remember Christie books after I've read them, and I can barely remember this one now. I liked seeing Poirot through Hastings' eyes and Hastings' arsery revealing itself more surely.
I'd seen the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries in charity shops, but I wasn't sure which was the first in the series, and also didn't feel like paying £2.50 for something I didn't know if I'd like. Then Amazon had a "buy the first four for relatively little" thing and I downloaded them to my Nook. They are rather nice - I like that the Inspector likes Daisy for her intelligence as much as her looks, and that she's working because she needs to and is good at her job. They are pleasant books and haven't stuck with me very much, but I'll probably keep reading the others happily when I have a chance.
Very much loved Americanah, and the blogposts especially. Then Purple Hibiscus was on a shelf and I loved it even more.
I read Model Geek earlier this year and enjoyed it more than I was expecting. Model Misfit I enjoyed slightly less than I was expecting. She goes off to Japan for a big modelling job, then there is Sabotage and Misunderstanding, and the boy she liked in the first book seems to be going out with a rival model. Except that he isn't, and at the end it's all "oh, silly me", except he never said anything, so he is also to blame.
Banishment was DREADFUL. Simply dreadful. Regency romance where the heroine is beautiful but has failed to marry, and now needs to do so despite her horribly snobbish family.
I wouldn't have read Looking for Alaska so soon after Paper Towns, except that my hold on the Edinburgh Libraries website came up and I needed to finish it within two weeks. So it was a bit samey with John Green being John Green all over the place.
And oh dear, I can't remember the plot of Lucia and the Diplomatic Incident at all, and none of the Amazon reviews are particularly helpful. I think I remember that it wasn't bad, and quite pleasing, but clearly not a great work.
Falconer's Lure is one of my favourite AF books, and consequently one of my favourite of any books. Re-reading now I find Patrick a bit condescending, and before I just thought he was great and Nicola was lucky to have an older child interested in hanging out with her. I feel sorry for Peter, too. I especially like the competitions, and Jon at the breakfast table.
I was enjoying my reread of the Vorkosigan books, but now really regretting that we don't see more of Cordelia as Cordelia, rather than Cordelia as Miles's mother who has a good reputation but we don't see enough of her being awesome to tell. I'd forgotten quite how much of a badass she is, tipping a man's head out onto the conference table.
