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Mar. 22nd, 2016 06:14 pmGoblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
For my fannish book club. Everybody including me thought this was a very readable and enjoyable feel-good book! Which I pretty much expected, having read various reviews of it in my reading circle. I'm sure I could quibble about various things, and in general I'm still tired of fantasy monarchies, but whatever. Both the book overall and the main character were so likeable that I just wanted to enjoy it.
Did anyone understand what role the Parliament filled? There was one, right? But it was kind of blink-and-you'll-miss-it, and the actual decisions seemed to be made by the emperor and his Witnesses.
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (original in French, read in Swedish)
For book-club-at-work. Wikipedia says that Balzac is one of the founders of realism as a literary movement, but I thought this read kind of like a soap opera? Exaggerated characters, sudden reveals, situations that seemed engineered for maximum drama. My other reaction to this was: augh, class society, it sucks.
For my fannish book club. Everybody including me thought this was a very readable and enjoyable feel-good book! Which I pretty much expected, having read various reviews of it in my reading circle. I'm sure I could quibble about various things, and in general I'm still tired of fantasy monarchies, but whatever. Both the book overall and the main character were so likeable that I just wanted to enjoy it.
Did anyone understand what role the Parliament filled? There was one, right? But it was kind of blink-and-you'll-miss-it, and the actual decisions seemed to be made by the emperor and his Witnesses.
Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (original in French, read in Swedish)
For book-club-at-work. Wikipedia says that Balzac is one of the founders of realism as a literary movement, but I thought this read kind of like a soap opera? Exaggerated characters, sudden reveals, situations that seemed engineered for maximum drama. My other reaction to this was: augh, class society, it sucks.
