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So much for my obviously failing memory...
Apr. 3rd, 2007 09:40 pmI found the notebook. It listed a whole bunch of other books I'd forgotten I'd read, which is why I keep this thing in the first place...
Anyway, first up is the one I liked best. Excellent children's fantasy/historical, with a detailed world, in depth characterisation, and completely lacking in easy and simplistic answers. ( The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer. )
( Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman. )
( Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam. )
( Almost French, Sarah Turnbull. )
After some mild agonising, I've decided not to routinely count graphic novels, but I'll note them here anyway.
Deadline, Bill Rosemann. Marvel, about a journalist who dislikes superheroes but gets stuck doing a story about them. I liked the ghost city – much of the rest now escapes me, and the main character is less endearing than I think the author would like me to find her.
Superman-Secret Identity, Kurt Busiek. I do like Kurt Busiek, and I have Astro City on standing order, but after a strong start it felt like he'd run out of things to say. The relationship between Superman and his government observers is nicely done, but the hints at obligations to nonAmericans tails out, and the ending is weak.
David’s Story, Terry Moore. Strangers in Paradise is the sort of series that men recommend to me as having "really realistic women". I think this may be a case of wishful thinking. Anyway, this is backstory for one of the male characters. Startlingly unrealistic, in my admittedly limited experience of yakuza in incestuous relationships who give it all up after accidentally killing asthmatic teenagers, take on their victim's name and then fall hopelessly in love with one of the female protagonists at a Rodin exhibition...
Anyway, first up is the one I liked best. Excellent children's fantasy/historical, with a detailed world, in depth characterisation, and completely lacking in easy and simplistic answers. ( The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer. )
( Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman. )
( Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam. )
( Almost French, Sarah Turnbull. )
After some mild agonising, I've decided not to routinely count graphic novels, but I'll note them here anyway.
Deadline, Bill Rosemann. Marvel, about a journalist who dislikes superheroes but gets stuck doing a story about them. I liked the ghost city – much of the rest now escapes me, and the main character is less endearing than I think the author would like me to find her.
Superman-Secret Identity, Kurt Busiek. I do like Kurt Busiek, and I have Astro City on standing order, but after a strong start it felt like he'd run out of things to say. The relationship between Superman and his government observers is nicely done, but the hints at obligations to nonAmericans tails out, and the ending is weak.
David’s Story, Terry Moore. Strangers in Paradise is the sort of series that men recommend to me as having "really realistic women". I think this may be a case of wishful thinking. Anyway, this is backstory for one of the male characters. Startlingly unrealistic, in my admittedly limited experience of yakuza in incestuous relationships who give it all up after accidentally killing asthmatic teenagers, take on their victim's name and then fall hopelessly in love with one of the female protagonists at a Rodin exhibition...
