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luzulaFly By Night by Frances Hardinge
skygiants' boundless enthusiasm for this author made me give her a try. : ) It took me maybe half the book to really get into it, but I enjoyed it towards the end and I'm glad I finished it. The reason I didn't click with the book at first is 1) Mosca's amorality, and 2) the writing. I mean, usually I appreciate playfulness with words, but in this book it mostly distracted me from what was going on instead of immersing me in the book. But Mosca won me over towards the end, as well as the themes about the subversiveness of writing/reading.
Sent i november by Tove Jansson [Moominvalley in November], listened to as audiobook
A Moomin audiobook requires a compatible reader, which this one is--it's read by Mark Levengood, a well-known Swedish-Finnish author and entertainer. He added a lot to my enjoyment of the book. This is the last Moominbook, and I think I'll stop here--I have now read the last four of them and enjoyed them immensely.
skygiants' boundless enthusiasm for this author made me give her a try. : ) It took me maybe half the book to really get into it, but I enjoyed it towards the end and I'm glad I finished it. The reason I didn't click with the book at first is 1) Mosca's amorality, and 2) the writing. I mean, usually I appreciate playfulness with words, but in this book it mostly distracted me from what was going on instead of immersing me in the book. But Mosca won me over towards the end, as well as the themes about the subversiveness of writing/reading.Sent i november by Tove Jansson [Moominvalley in November], listened to as audiobook
A Moomin audiobook requires a compatible reader, which this one is--it's read by Mark Levengood, a well-known Swedish-Finnish author and entertainer. He added a lot to my enjoyment of the book. This is the last Moominbook, and I think I'll stop here--I have now read the last four of them and enjoyed them immensely.
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Date: 2015-09-19 04:16 pm (UTC)The icon is a good likeness! I didn't mean that Mosca's character was a bug (more like a fly, ha ha), but more that I didn't feel an affinity to her from the beginning. But that's just a matter of personality/taste.
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Date: 2015-09-19 04:22 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's definitely a matter of taste. Angry amoral children are a thing I tend to love in fiction (and angry amoral children being dragged grudgingly into semi-morality) -- so though Fly By Night is I think probably her least accomplished book, it is one of my very favorites for just that reason.