Ships and sharing knives

After these two posts I am only one book behind on my booklog. The number of half-finished manga posts I have, however, is appalling, and I really should create the same sort of pending file I have for books so I can start at it glumly. Anyway.

( Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife 1: Beguilement. )

( Joan Druett, A Watery Grave. )

( Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. )

Another good book by Nancy Farmer

Sometimes the order I read books in throws up some useful comparisons and this is, in fact currently the case, but I'm in the middle of too many things to be posting the right combinations. For example, if I were organised enough to finish David Mitchell's number 9 dream before posting this I could post about how it has a similar flaw to Bad Monkeys, and if I'd finished re-reading E Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet I could put it next to the Nancy Farmer book. Oh well. As always, these things make more sense in my head.

Nhamo, a Shona girl growing up in a Mozambique village, is promised to a stranger as his junior wife, to lift the curse of cholera from her village and atone for the sins of her vanished father. Instead, encouraged by her grandmother, she runs away to look for her father’s family in Zimbabwe, a journey which becomes a lot more difficult than anticipated. ( Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster. )

Matt Ruff, Bad Monkeys. ( No spoilers, but a regretfully unfavourable impression. )

( The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt. )