I have MORE THAN ONE book to post about having read recently, even though I haven't been on vacation or anything? THE SHOCK.
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, by Astrid Lindgren
I picked this one up after reading![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skygiants' post about it, because she made it sound excellent. And she was right! I found it SUPER CHARMING and rather wish I had stumbled across it when I was a kid instead of being under the vague impression that the Pippi books were the only things Astrid Lindgren had ever written!
( Some spoilers to follow )
The Fortune of War, by Patrick O'Brian
Okay so this is one of those books that sat beside my couch with a bookmark halfway into it for I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW HOW LONG and I finally decided recently to just BUCK UP AND START FROM THE BEGINNING AGAIN because it's not like I remembered the first half well enough to be able to properly follow the second half.
And then I was reading, and reading, and reading, and realized slowly that waaaaaiiiit a minute I'D TOTALLY ACTUALLY FINISHED THIS BOOK BEFORE, and WHO KNOWS WHY I'D LEFT THE BOOKMARK IN. But by the point of this realization I was far enough in that I finished reading it anyways. I have no clue whatsoever when I finished it the first time, so I'm going to count it as a first read for this year's end-of-year count, since it clearly never made it into the stats for any previous year.
ANYWAYS MY THOUGHTS ABOUT IT. It was super excellent LIKE ALWAYS OF COURSE, oh my god I spend every single Patrick O'Brian book just staring at the pages going "PATRICK O'BRIAN HOW DO YOU WRITE SO WELL. HOW. HOW." He's just such a good writer, y'all! I can't get over it! And I hope I never do!
( Some spoilers )
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, by Astrid Lindgren
I picked this one up after reading
skygiants' post about it, because she made it sound excellent. And she was right! I found it SUPER CHARMING and rather wish I had stumbled across it when I was a kid instead of being under the vague impression that the Pippi books were the only things Astrid Lindgren had ever written!( Some spoilers to follow )
The Fortune of War, by Patrick O'Brian
Okay so this is one of those books that sat beside my couch with a bookmark halfway into it for I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW HOW LONG and I finally decided recently to just BUCK UP AND START FROM THE BEGINNING AGAIN because it's not like I remembered the first half well enough to be able to properly follow the second half.
And then I was reading, and reading, and reading, and realized slowly that waaaaaiiiit a minute I'D TOTALLY ACTUALLY FINISHED THIS BOOK BEFORE, and WHO KNOWS WHY I'D LEFT THE BOOKMARK IN. But by the point of this realization I was far enough in that I finished reading it anyways. I have no clue whatsoever when I finished it the first time, so I'm going to count it as a first read for this year's end-of-year count, since it clearly never made it into the stats for any previous year.
ANYWAYS MY THOUGHTS ABOUT IT. It was super excellent LIKE ALWAYS OF COURSE, oh my god I spend every single Patrick O'Brian book just staring at the pages going "PATRICK O'BRIAN HOW DO YOU WRITE SO WELL. HOW. HOW." He's just such a good writer, y'all! I can't get over it! And I hope I never do!
( Some spoilers )
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