[booklog 2006]

[iridium]

85. - 87. The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road, the Fionavar trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. yet more good fluff courtesy of vyrin, this time in the form of densely-packed fantasy motifs...of DOOOOOM! also, naming your characters "Aileron" and "Tandem" does not help me to take things seriously. but that's ok, i don't have to.

88. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay. same author, still fantasy kinda-fluff, but more nicely crafted and an interesting thought-experiment about memory and identity. ravenslost says i should read some of his other books, too.

today, the only book i have read is Developmental Biology. the Barthes is still waiting, in part because i've put my brain on the shelf for awhile. also i think i'm about due to get some books back to their respective libraries.

Comments

[eilonwy.livejournal.com]

I love Tigana. I think it's one of the better-crafted, more-in-depth fantasy novels I've read, to be honest. :) Shooooot, now I want to read it again. And I don't have time! I mean, I have a battered copy and all, but I have fallen into this place where I'm not finishing *any* books I'm reading, which is really weird for me, and I don't have time to start more because I have a paper to wriiiiite. Arg! :)

[iridium.livejournal.com]

heh. i shouldn't be reading this much; i've got my own paper to write. (it's just a relatively small ~10pg "research" paper, but i'm having a bitch of a time with discipline and motivation right now.)

i did like Tigana, and i may well re-read it before too long. and from what i hear, his other books are also worth reading.

[tshuma]

I liked Tigana. The trilogy was somewhat less successful with me -- it was a good, fast read, but I ran into the same problem with not being able to take it very seriously. I started it six or seven years ago and put it down, but picked it up again this past spring.

Raven and I don't necessarily agree on what his best book is, but we both agree that we like The Lions of Al-Rassan and Song For Arbonne. I think Song is my current favorite, but I'll need to re-read Lions soon -- it's been years and years. I also liked the Sailing to Byzantium Sarantium duo, but I think that was in part because I first read it while studying late imperial Rome.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

sounds good to me -- and Raven said she had at least one or two more of his books, so i may try to borrow them after i get through my current stack of books-to-read.