Updated my Journal.
I went on holidays and had two seven hour flights and intermittent internet access, so I read a lot of kindle books (and two hard copies!) while I was over there. So: Sherlock Holmes books are enjoyable even though I don't know if they're great mysteries (since Sherlock basically has deductive magic powers, but whatever). A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is out and out magical, but it takes a long while to get to the feel-good pay-off bits of the book - it makes you earn that happy ending. A Blink of the Screen proves PTerry can do short fiction, even if he doesn't do a lot of it; I particularly liked The Sea and Little Fishes. The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is exactly what it says on the cover and I'm probably going to get the rest of them when they go cheap. The Warrior's Path was an excellent little fantasy novel that was so low-scale and character focused that it was a huge, refreshing change from the norm.
Groundhog Day was great, but I shouldn't have read the fucking tvtropes article first.
I went on holidays and had two seven hour flights and intermittent internet access, so I read a lot of kindle books (and two hard copies!) while I was over there. So: Sherlock Holmes books are enjoyable even though I don't know if they're great mysteries (since Sherlock basically has deductive magic powers, but whatever). A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is out and out magical, but it takes a long while to get to the feel-good pay-off bits of the book - it makes you earn that happy ending. A Blink of the Screen proves PTerry can do short fiction, even if he doesn't do a lot of it; I particularly liked The Sea and Little Fishes. The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 is exactly what it says on the cover and I'm probably going to get the rest of them when they go cheap. The Warrior's Path was an excellent little fantasy novel that was so low-scale and character focused that it was a huge, refreshing change from the norm.
Groundhog Day was great, but I shouldn't have read the fucking tvtropes article first.