should really blog longer about these, but here are some I read on my extended leave....
- Whose Body? (Dorothy Sayers): mystery about English upper crust book collector who solves grisly murders. 2 stars.
- The Great Transformation (Karen Armstrong): how all the world’s major religions all started from the same seeds at the same time [same author as A History of God]. 4 stars.
- Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman): sci fi/fantasy about a secret subterranean culture beneath London. 3 stars.
- Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler): sci fi/speculative fiction about a girl in 2030’s America falling apart at the seems who must escape LA on foot. 3 stars.
- The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz): ancient Toltec wisdom for everyday modern life. 4 stars.
- Dogsbody (Diana Wynne Jones): children’s fantasy about the spirit of the star Sirius who is cast to earth and must find the object that will prove his innocence. 3 stars.
- Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler): further adventures in post-crash US, replete with vicious Christians. 4 stars.
- The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper): children’s fantasy about an epic struggle against evil. 3 stars.
- Greenwitch (Susan Cooper): book three in the same series as above. 4 stars.
- The Painted Alphabet (Diana Darling): strange fiction/fantasy based on an old Balinese tale but set in somewhat modern Bali. 5 stars!
- An Artist of the Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro): fictional account of post-WWII Japan and an artist who had sided with the Empire. 4 stars.
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