Books read this month:
- Peter Pan. J. M. Barrie.
- The Bean Trees. Barbara Kingsolver.
- Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times. James Finn Garner.
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Alan Bradley.
- Od Magic. Patricia A. McKillip.
- Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel García Márquez.
- Ywain and Gawain. Stephen H. A. Shepherd, ed. *
- Lybeaus Desconus. Thomas Chestre; ed. M. Mills. *
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm. Nancy Farmer.
- Partonope of Blois. A. Trampe Bodtker, ed. *
Best new read: Od Magic.
Best medieval romance: Partonope of Blois.
Best (only) sci-fi: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm.
Quite a month! I’m not sure where to begin on my commentary for the books I’ve read this month, except to say that I enjoyed 95% of what I read. If you want to know more, leave a comment about which book you want to know about…
* indicates in Middle English.
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What did you think about the Alan Bradley novel?
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I wasn’t entirely taken with Flavia in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, and so not immediately in love with the novel. It was a fun, light read and I would recommend it to mystery fans and literary chemists. For me, it was not a very gripping plot and I found that I could put the book down and come back to it a while later, and so that is why I say I did not fully engage and enjoy the novel. I plead ignorance, hwoever, because I am not a mystery buff…
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