Binge Reading for the Holidays - part 1
Three weeks off from school and not very much work to do means that I can read all the stuff I have been saving for ages. I haven’t written my web log because I was busy reading, but now it’s time to sit back and review what I have been up to.
Eragon by Christopher Paolini – A dreadful book. After slogging through this rambling tedium I had to read something by someone who knows what characters, structure and plot are.
Murder Room by P.D. James – Ah bliss! This is a writer who knows her stuff. A great read, an interesting mystery and… at last! Dalgliesh falls in love with someone… and he admits it to her. The final scene where the Commander runs desperately through the train station to ask Emma to marry him… I’m all a-flutter! To top it off, I broke one of my cardinal rules (Rule #3 – Read the book first, wait at least two months, and then watch the movie.) I rented the movie version straight away so I could see the new Dalgliesh in action running through the train station. I’ve been so used to Roy Marsden (who frightens me a little because I always will remember him in “The Sandbaggers.”) but, actors age while Dalgliesh has remained the same for 30 years. The new actor (whose name I don’t know…sorry) is excellent and is decidedly less menacing (remind me to tell you about “The Sandbaggers” one day.)
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LIBRARIANS: the books, the fame, the fortune… What more could you want? (Maybe more books.)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini – A dreadful book. After slogging through this rambling tedium I had to read something by someone who knows what characters, structure and plot are.
Murder Room by P.D. James – Ah bliss! This is a writer who knows her stuff. A great read, an interesting mystery and… at last! Dalgliesh falls in love with someone… and he admits it to her. The final scene where the Commander runs desperately through the train station to ask Emma to marry him… I’m all a-flutter! To top it off, I broke one of my cardinal rules (Rule #3 – Read the book first, wait at least two months, and then watch the movie.) I rented the movie version straight away so I could see the new Dalgliesh in action running through the train station. I’ve been so used to Roy Marsden (who frightens me a little because I always will remember him in “The Sandbaggers.”) but, actors age while Dalgliesh has remained the same for 30 years. The new actor (whose name I don’t know…sorry) is excellent and is decidedly less menacing (remind me to tell you about “The Sandbaggers” one day.)
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LIBRARIANS: the books, the fame, the fortune… What more could you want? (Maybe more books.)
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