Books for November
Nov. 30th, 2002 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrRob forgot to take the computer with him to work today. Negative: I have to wait yet longer to have my DVD drive fixed. Positive: I can post my end-of-the-month list of books on time.
A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer. Re-read. I heard Caroline talking about the system of magic in this book at World Fantasy, which is what made me pull it out again. I was surprised to find how little memory of the book I had, which is quite unusual for me. I'm glad that a sequel will be released soon.
North to Freedom by Anne Holm. Re-read. Actually, the original title which was used for this book's release in Europe is much better: I am David. World Fantasy prompted this read, too: I was on a panel at WFC on influential books read as a child, and this one sprang right to mind. This book holds up well, no matter how many times you re-read it. I read it to the girls this month, too.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Kate Bernheimer, ed. A collection of essays. Was particularly impressed by the ones by Terri Windling, A.S. Byatt, and Linda Gray Sexton and . . . oh, there were a whole host of good ones. (Alas, also one or two that were just unreadable, but out of 28 essays, they were few. The book was well worth the money).
The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy by Brian Sibley. Because yeah, I'm a fan.
The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer. Re-read. Because it's getting cold again, which means I'm starting to make butterscotch pudding in the microwave at night, and for some reason, every time I eat warm butterscotch pudding, I want to read Georgette Heyer. A very odd but extremely strong correlation. This is the only Georgette Heyer I picked up and read cover-to-cover, but I dipped and skimmed through a number of others this month (all over bowls of butterscotch pudding), including The Toll Gate, A Civil Contract, The Foundling and Cotillion.
Jane and the Prisoner of the Wool House by Stephanie Barron. I really like these books and think they are well written. The author purports to have "discovered" some hitherto unknown Jane Austen manuscripts, and Jane is a detective uncovering murder mysteries. If you love Jane Austen's novels and are very familiar with them as I am, you will be delighted to see the lines that "pop" out of the text which you recognize as coming from Jane's published work. The books are following Jane's biography (and seem to be carefully researched) and you see what inspires Jane's fiction. This one is in the newest in the series; number six or seven I think. Great fun.
Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright. Re-read. Another favorite from my childhood that I pulled out to read to the girls.
The Sandman: Prelude and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman. First time I've read this, I'm ashamed to say, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kijjohnson who lent me her copy. I am happily reading on in the series.
Here's one book that I only had an opportunity to read about half of before I had to return it to the lender, but I'm including it because I thought quite a bit about it this month:
Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter by Jack Zipes.
Hmm. I note with disapproval that I'm not doing enough research reading for the new book. Must address this next month.
Peg
A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer. Re-read. I heard Caroline talking about the system of magic in this book at World Fantasy, which is what made me pull it out again. I was surprised to find how little memory of the book I had, which is quite unusual for me. I'm glad that a sequel will be released soon.
North to Freedom by Anne Holm. Re-read. Actually, the original title which was used for this book's release in Europe is much better: I am David. World Fantasy prompted this read, too: I was on a panel at WFC on influential books read as a child, and this one sprang right to mind. This book holds up well, no matter how many times you re-read it. I read it to the girls this month, too.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Kate Bernheimer, ed. A collection of essays. Was particularly impressed by the ones by Terri Windling, A.S. Byatt, and Linda Gray Sexton and . . . oh, there were a whole host of good ones. (Alas, also one or two that were just unreadable, but out of 28 essays, they were few. The book was well worth the money).
The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy by Brian Sibley. Because yeah, I'm a fan.
The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer. Re-read. Because it's getting cold again, which means I'm starting to make butterscotch pudding in the microwave at night, and for some reason, every time I eat warm butterscotch pudding, I want to read Georgette Heyer. A very odd but extremely strong correlation. This is the only Georgette Heyer I picked up and read cover-to-cover, but I dipped and skimmed through a number of others this month (all over bowls of butterscotch pudding), including The Toll Gate, A Civil Contract, The Foundling and Cotillion.
Jane and the Prisoner of the Wool House by Stephanie Barron. I really like these books and think they are well written. The author purports to have "discovered" some hitherto unknown Jane Austen manuscripts, and Jane is a detective uncovering murder mysteries. If you love Jane Austen's novels and are very familiar with them as I am, you will be delighted to see the lines that "pop" out of the text which you recognize as coming from Jane's published work. The books are following Jane's biography (and seem to be carefully researched) and you see what inspires Jane's fiction. This one is in the newest in the series; number six or seven I think. Great fun.
Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright. Re-read. Another favorite from my childhood that I pulled out to read to the girls.
The Sandman: Prelude and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman. First time I've read this, I'm ashamed to say, thanks to
kijjohnson who lent me her copy. I am happily reading on in the series.Here's one book that I only had an opportunity to read about half of before I had to return it to the lender, but I'm including it because I thought quite a bit about it this month:
Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter by Jack Zipes.
Hmm. I note with disapproval that I'm not doing enough research reading for the new book. Must address this next month.
Peg