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Feb. 21st, 2017 11:18 pmOath of Gold by Elizabeth Moon (#3 in the Deed of Paksenarrion)
Last of the comfort reading, and I enjoyed it as such. Although I am not really enthused by the royalism at the end--considering how the Girdish order got started, I'm surprised they're so royalist. But re: That Scene at the end, I don't think it is gratuitous, which I have seen suggested. I mean, given that some of the inspiration for this series is obviously legends of Christian saints, I find it a logical place for the story to end up.
Apparently there are now five sequels to this trilogy; I read two of them back when they came out, and wasn't that into them because they had so little Paks in them (also, more royalism). But now I hear that there are apparently more Kuakgannir in the later books? Hmmm. Has anyone read them?
Alberte och Jakob by Cora Sandel (original in Norwegian, in English as Alberta and Jacob)
For book-club-at-work, which has started up again after a hiatus. This is about a teenage girl in a small town in early-20th-century northern Norway. It's well written, especially the descriptions of social situations, but on the whole it is a book where not that much happens, with a protagonist who is quite unhappy. So a bit of a downer. (It annoys me that the English translation apparently changed the spellings of the names--what, can't people deal with different spelling?)
Last of the comfort reading, and I enjoyed it as such. Although I am not really enthused by the royalism at the end--considering how the Girdish order got started, I'm surprised they're so royalist. But re: That Scene at the end, I don't think it is gratuitous, which I have seen suggested. I mean, given that some of the inspiration for this series is obviously legends of Christian saints, I find it a logical place for the story to end up.
Apparently there are now five sequels to this trilogy; I read two of them back when they came out, and wasn't that into them because they had so little Paks in them (also, more royalism). But now I hear that there are apparently more Kuakgannir in the later books? Hmmm. Has anyone read them?
Alberte och Jakob by Cora Sandel (original in Norwegian, in English as Alberta and Jacob)
For book-club-at-work, which has started up again after a hiatus. This is about a teenage girl in a small town in early-20th-century northern Norway. It's well written, especially the descriptions of social situations, but on the whole it is a book where not that much happens, with a protagonist who is quite unhappy. So a bit of a downer. (It annoys me that the English translation apparently changed the spellings of the names--what, can't people deal with different spelling?)
