Zoe ,'The Train Job'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I loved the weaving, the observations, the building of community. Loved Hild's voice from early to grown up. The fact that you got the political sweep from both a traditionally male side and a female side. And the language was just gorgeous.
Also, I see tragedy in the future regardless.
Yup. Though the endgame (St. Hilda of Whitby) is known. And she was amazing. So, I'm ok to read on if there's a sequel.
Have any of your read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
Ohmygod! Loved it.
So I'm reading one of my Bookbub deals by an author called Lillian Stewart Carl - The Secret Portrait. For the most part I like it. It's a mystery with a female protagonist who has transplanted herself from Texas to Scotland. Mostly the dialect in the dialogue is at least as skillful as I would be able to manage, or better. The one jarring note is the phrase "might could". It seems as though everyone in the book who was born in Scotland says "might could" while characters from England and Texas do not. I'd have thought that the Texan would use it, but no one else.
Have any of your read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?
It was fun, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. It had a great opening and finished strong, but I got a little bored by the quest at a certain point.
megan, I am totally the opposite. I liked the quest and was bored with the bits about TechLove and coding. I do love that Robin Sloan, on his author's blurb, says that he splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet.
That's sort of what I meant in that I hated pretty much anything having to do with Google and just didn't like that it went in that direction.
I got about 25% of the way into Mr. Penumbra and just put it down. It was a bit too much cool-dude-brogrammer and Manic Pixie Tech Girl for me. Maybe things got better?
I did like the mystery itself, though. If I find an electronic copy at the library I might skim it, but I was listening to it on audiobook, and disliking the narrator of an audiobook is a death knell.
Yep, that's why I quit The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Also because I had no idea what the fuck was going on.
Really? I loved me some Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Really? I loved me some Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Me too.