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Feb. 25th, 2021 05:37 pmA Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (2020)
For my fannish book club. This is a "magical school" story which I found to be fun and page-turney; we all enjoyed it. I thought the dynamic between the main character and her love interest was very much like that in In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, which we read for book club last year: a male love interest who is popular and a champion fighter, and a snarky main character who is not popular and treats the love interest rudely, and is also oblivious to his crush on the main character. I enjoyed this one more, though.
Having read Novik's Transformers fan fiction, I do wonder why the male love interest is called Orion?? I mean, I know nothing of Transformers outside of her fics, but Orion Lake and Optimus Prime/Orion Pax do have a lot in common in her characterization: privileged, idealistic, somewhat clueless, champion fighters.
A Pocket History of Scotland by David Ross (2002)
I thought I should get an overview of the bits that are not the 18th century, and this was good for that. Anyway, it turns out that Macbeth was an actual historical person and not just someone Shakespeare made up! This is like the moment when I realized that Elsinore is the same as the far more prosaic Helsingör...
For my fannish book club. This is a "magical school" story which I found to be fun and page-turney; we all enjoyed it. I thought the dynamic between the main character and her love interest was very much like that in In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, which we read for book club last year: a male love interest who is popular and a champion fighter, and a snarky main character who is not popular and treats the love interest rudely, and is also oblivious to his crush on the main character. I enjoyed this one more, though.
Having read Novik's Transformers fan fiction, I do wonder why the male love interest is called Orion?? I mean, I know nothing of Transformers outside of her fics, but Orion Lake and Optimus Prime/Orion Pax do have a lot in common in her characterization: privileged, idealistic, somewhat clueless, champion fighters.
A Pocket History of Scotland by David Ross (2002)
I thought I should get an overview of the bits that are not the 18th century, and this was good for that. Anyway, it turns out that Macbeth was an actual historical person and not just someone Shakespeare made up! This is like the moment when I realized that Elsinore is the same as the far more prosaic Helsingör...
