by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
Grade: All right
It started out weird and cool, and ended weird and cool, except I didn't like the Glitch itself. But you wouldn't think the Glitch could, all by itself, put the book from Good to All right, would you? But I think it did, somehow. I'm not really interested in the sequels.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Feed
by M. T. Anderson
Grade: Unfinished
Read: The first chapter.
I hated the language he used. I don't care if it was realistic teenager language, it still sounded dumb. So there.
Grade: Unfinished
Read: The first chapter.
I hated the language he used. I don't care if it was realistic teenager language, it still sounded dumb. So there.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Time of the Ghost
by Diana Wynne Jones
Grade: Good
I did read it very quickly indeed, and it was quite interesting really. Maybe I'll change it from "All right" to "Good"...
Ok, there we go.
After all, Monigan is hugely creepy, the ghost is sadly pathetic, and the sisters had personality, uniqueness, and great sadness as well.
Grade: Good
I did read it very quickly indeed, and it was quite interesting really. Maybe I'll change it from "All right" to "Good"...
Ok, there we go.
After all, Monigan is hugely creepy, the ghost is sadly pathetic, and the sisters had personality, uniqueness, and great sadness as well.
The Fifth Elephant
by Terry Pratchett
Grade: Good
Not my favourite, but good. Lady Margolotta was interesting. And Angua's family was rather brutal. I found her father rather creepy when he forgets how to be human.
Grade: Good
Not my favourite, but good. Lady Margolotta was interesting. And Angua's family was rather brutal. I found her father rather creepy when he forgets how to be human.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
And Only to Deceive
by Tasha Alexander
Grade: Unfinished
Read: To page 76
Quite disappointing. The Greek stuff was marvellous, but the main character was that specific kind of feminist who would say such things as, "The butler reached toward me, assuming I would faint. I never faint. Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither". It makes most females look like affected idiots. It annoys me.
And the hero's main quality was that he was handsome. I could have stood the main female character if the hero wasn't totally boring.
Grade: Unfinished
Read: To page 76
Quite disappointing. The Greek stuff was marvellous, but the main character was that specific kind of feminist who would say such things as, "The butler reached toward me, assuming I would faint. I never faint. Fainting is a result of affectation or too-tight stays; I will succumb to neither". It makes most females look like affected idiots. It annoys me.
And the hero's main quality was that he was handsome. I could have stood the main female character if the hero wasn't totally boring.
Pish Posh
by Ellen Potter
Grade: Good
A very odd little book. Like many modern novels, there's a bit of genre-bending going on, with a mix of adventure and almost spy-thriller stuff, with a tiny bit of fantasy thrown in.
If I bought this, I'd probably put it with Kay-Kay-Bay books. Clara reminds me of KKB, and there's a bunch of thieving going on.
Grade: Good
A very odd little book. Like many modern novels, there's a bit of genre-bending going on, with a mix of adventure and almost spy-thriller stuff, with a tiny bit of fantasy thrown in.
If I bought this, I'd probably put it with Kay-Kay-Bay books. Clara reminds me of KKB, and there's a bunch of thieving going on.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
The Homeward Bounder
by Diana Wynne Jones
Grade: Good
Again, terribly original.
And rather sad.
That's all I can really think of to say.
I liked Joris.
There. I wrote something.
Grade: Good
Again, terribly original.
And rather sad.
That's all I can really think of to say.
I liked Joris.
There. I wrote something.
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