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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 87-91
87. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.
Been meaning to read this since I read Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. I found it amusing, if far from hilarious.
88. Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates.
A very impressive book, combining magic, time travel, 19th century English poets, Egyptian gods, excellent characterisation, and one of the most atmospheric London underworlds I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
89. Ursula K. LeGuin, Lavinia.
This is a hard book to talk about. LeGuin is rightly known as a luminary of the genre, and Lavinia displays all the customary hallmarks of her skill and talent. I found it lyrical, and the central conceit both extraordinarily moving and thought-provoking. LeGuin's Latium is skillfully drawn, mingling a convincing Bronze Age with touches of the more imperial attitude of the Aeneid. It is possible to read it as an interesting meditation on the process of creating myth as well as the fantastic story it presents in itself.
90. Ursula LeGuin, Voices
Powerful, moving, magnificent: lyrical in an understated way, and as so often with LeGuin, full of the numinous.
nonfiction
91. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Letters.
Interesting and full of incidental detail about the world of the early Roman empire.
87. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.
Been meaning to read this since I read Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. I found it amusing, if far from hilarious.
88. Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates.
A very impressive book, combining magic, time travel, 19th century English poets, Egyptian gods, excellent characterisation, and one of the most atmospheric London underworlds I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
89. Ursula K. LeGuin, Lavinia.
This is a hard book to talk about. LeGuin is rightly known as a luminary of the genre, and Lavinia displays all the customary hallmarks of her skill and talent. I found it lyrical, and the central conceit both extraordinarily moving and thought-provoking. LeGuin's Latium is skillfully drawn, mingling a convincing Bronze Age with touches of the more imperial attitude of the Aeneid. It is possible to read it as an interesting meditation on the process of creating myth as well as the fantastic story it presents in itself.
90. Ursula LeGuin, Voices
Powerful, moving, magnificent: lyrical in an understated way, and as so often with LeGuin, full of the numinous.
nonfiction
91. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Letters.
Interesting and full of incidental detail about the world of the early Roman empire.
