Book: A shadow in summer
Jun. 17th, 2010 06:50 pmAuthor: Daniel Abraham
Details: (c) 2006 Daniel Abraham; Pub Tor 2007; ISBN 0-7653-5187-0
Verdict: A Shadow in Summer is a highly readable and satisfying fantasy.
Reasons for reading it / How it came into my hands: Birthday present from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rysmiel. I'm not sure why it's taken me half a year to get round to it, as it's very much the sort of book I like, plus I know that rysmiel has truly excellent taste.
Partly that I just haven't established a routine that includes as much reading time I'd like. My commute is delightfully short, which is wonderful, but most days it's a ten minute walk, a five minute wait and a 20-minute bus ride, which isn't quite long enough to settle into a book (and I'm working at the lab which is just up the road from my front door half the time). And my smart phone is just that bit more portable than a novel, so I often end up spending my odd minutes when I'm out and about reading the internet instead of a novel, as I would have before this year. As a result I accomplish things in the evenings, because I don't have to come home and get my internet fix, and I keep up with my very busy and interesting reading page. But I don't read much. The other issue is that I haven't quite got over the fact that I have a local library which has a good selection of books I actually want to read, in English. So I've been borrowing from the library a lot, and anything that comes from the library goes to the top of my reading pile so that I can return it in time. When I do return books, I can't resist coming home with more...
I ended up starting Jeanette Winterson's attempt at SF, The Stone Gods. And it's definitely better than Atwood's attemps at SF which are not actually SF, honest, but I didn't quite get into it. The book is a series of I think four connected novellas, and when I got to the end of the first one, I thought, well, that was all right, but I don't feel particularly motivated to read more in this vein. And that meant I had a gap for once with nothing I was in the middle of, so I turned to this present which I'd been meaning to get to since Christmas.
( detailed review )
Details: (c) 2006 Daniel Abraham; Pub Tor 2007; ISBN 0-7653-5187-0
Verdict: A Shadow in Summer is a highly readable and satisfying fantasy.
Reasons for reading it / How it came into my hands: Birthday present from
rysmiel. I'm not sure why it's taken me half a year to get round to it, as it's very much the sort of book I like, plus I know that rysmiel has truly excellent taste. Partly that I just haven't established a routine that includes as much reading time I'd like. My commute is delightfully short, which is wonderful, but most days it's a ten minute walk, a five minute wait and a 20-minute bus ride, which isn't quite long enough to settle into a book (and I'm working at the lab which is just up the road from my front door half the time). And my smart phone is just that bit more portable than a novel, so I often end up spending my odd minutes when I'm out and about reading the internet instead of a novel, as I would have before this year. As a result I accomplish things in the evenings, because I don't have to come home and get my internet fix, and I keep up with my very busy and interesting reading page. But I don't read much. The other issue is that I haven't quite got over the fact that I have a local library which has a good selection of books I actually want to read, in English. So I've been borrowing from the library a lot, and anything that comes from the library goes to the top of my reading pile so that I can return it in time. When I do return books, I can't resist coming home with more...
I ended up starting Jeanette Winterson's attempt at SF, The Stone Gods. And it's definitely better than Atwood's attemps at SF which are not actually SF, honest, but I didn't quite get into it. The book is a series of I think four connected novellas, and when I got to the end of the first one, I thought, well, that was all right, but I don't feel particularly motivated to read more in this vein. And that meant I had a gap for once with nothing I was in the middle of, so I turned to this present which I'd been meaning to get to since Christmas.
( detailed review )
