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Apr. 25th, 2010
Holiday Reading
Apr. 25th, 2010 12:43 pmAsh - Malinda Lo
Clarissa Oakes - Patrick O'Brian
Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions - PL Simmonds
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
A Battle Won - Sean Thomas Russell
Scott and Amundsen, The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford
The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
Coventry - Helen Humphreys
Afterimage - Helen Humphreys
Interestingly Afterimage had as one theme arctic exploration - it was set in 1865, about 20 years after Franklin set off on his final search for the Northwest Passage and 10 years after news of his fate started to be confirmed. The husband in the book was a mapmaker and a little obsessed with exploration and the Arctic, and at one point acts out an imagined scene with Annie. I enjoyed both this and Coventry and will probably buy more of her books.
Out of the rest the Scott and Amundsen biography was the most interesting - he's very scathing of Scott and heaps praise on Amundsen though so now I want a less (or differently) biased biography. A Battle Won was a fine romp - the characters suffered a little in this and I hope that is not going to continue as they were the best part of his first book.
The Pullman was engaging and thought provoking - made me shake my head at my teenage self, well, more at the arguments my RE/Sunday School teachers used on me and now I wonder if they really believed them or not!
Clarissa Oakes - Patrick O'Brian
Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions - PL Simmonds
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
A Battle Won - Sean Thomas Russell
Scott and Amundsen, The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford
The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
Coventry - Helen Humphreys
Afterimage - Helen Humphreys
Interestingly Afterimage had as one theme arctic exploration - it was set in 1865, about 20 years after Franklin set off on his final search for the Northwest Passage and 10 years after news of his fate started to be confirmed. The husband in the book was a mapmaker and a little obsessed with exploration and the Arctic, and at one point acts out an imagined scene with Annie. I enjoyed both this and Coventry and will probably buy more of her books.
Out of the rest the Scott and Amundsen biography was the most interesting - he's very scathing of Scott and heaps praise on Amundsen though so now I want a less (or differently) biased biography. A Battle Won was a fine romp - the characters suffered a little in this and I hope that is not going to continue as they were the best part of his first book.
The Pullman was engaging and thought provoking - made me shake my head at my teenage self, well, more at the arguments my RE/Sunday School teachers used on me and now I wonder if they really believed them or not!