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Nov. 26th, 2022 10:24 pmElder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022)
For book club, my choice. I've seen a lot of people enjoying this, and I think that, along with how much I enjoyed Children of Time and Children of Ruin, had raised my expectations a little too much. I did enjoy this, but I don't think I will remember it much half a year from now? Perhaps because there were no insects and spiders.
I have also begun listening to Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson (1747), because, you know, important 18th century novel. I like the epistolary structure a lot, which the audiobook handles very well with different narrators for different characters. The reader who does Clarissa is brilliant, and contributes a lot to my enjoyment. The main relationship so far is between Clarissa and her friend Anna, though admittedly they do talk about men a lot. I'm surprised at how much of the plot has happened already, even though I've only listened to a third of the first audiobook of three (just the first audiobook is 33 hours). How on earth is he going to draw this out for the hugely long length of this book?? The theme so far is pretty much: Men Are Terrible. I am not at all sure that I will listen to the whole book, though--I mean, I am spoiled for what is going to happen, and I'm not sure I want to read that dragged out at such length. But I've enjoyed the bit I've listened to.
For book club, my choice. I've seen a lot of people enjoying this, and I think that, along with how much I enjoyed Children of Time and Children of Ruin, had raised my expectations a little too much. I did enjoy this, but I don't think I will remember it much half a year from now? Perhaps because there were no insects and spiders.
I have also begun listening to Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson (1747), because, you know, important 18th century novel. I like the epistolary structure a lot, which the audiobook handles very well with different narrators for different characters. The reader who does Clarissa is brilliant, and contributes a lot to my enjoyment. The main relationship so far is between Clarissa and her friend Anna, though admittedly they do talk about men a lot. I'm surprised at how much of the plot has happened already, even though I've only listened to a third of the first audiobook of three (just the first audiobook is 33 hours). How on earth is he going to draw this out for the hugely long length of this book?? The theme so far is pretty much: Men Are Terrible. I am not at all sure that I will listen to the whole book, though--I mean, I am spoiled for what is going to happen, and I'm not sure I want to read that dragged out at such length. But I've enjoyed the bit I've listened to.
