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What I have been reading, and watching
What I have been reading: The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon. I read this when it was first published and thought it was interesting to read again. I can’t say I really liked it. It’s rather dated, set at it is in the aftermath och Chernobyl and for all Weldon seem to lean on nurture over nature, Joanna and her clones seems more alike than different. And all have a preference for small grey cats, which hardly can genetic.
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Clogham was very good, though. I liked the world building, the premise being that there are a number of alternate universes, ruled either by order or chaos to various degrees. The more chaotic a universe is, the more íllogical things can be true, like vampires or werewolves. Faeries belong to chaos and dragons to order. Then there is the library which exist on a plane of it’s own. Its librarians are sent out to different worlds to retrieve books, something that can be very dangerous. Irene is a junior librarian and she is sent to find a book in a steampunk Victorian London, along with a new and mysterious assistant, the much too beautiful Kai. she quickly realizes that she isn’t the only one who wants the book. The recent owner has been murdered and there is a rival librarian who wants it and, worse of all the Renegade Librarian. she and Kai teams up with a private detective who is almost but not quite Sherlock Holmes.
I also liked the character’s and the pacing and found the plot engaging. There is a hint of a budding romance, this is the first book in a series, but this isn’t a love story as much as an adventure. I would say that both Diana Wynne Jones and Doctor Who has influenced the author, but only in a good way. I look forward to the next book, due to be published in December.
Fly By Night by Francis Hardinge. YA fantasy set in a sort-of early 18th century England. It’s a place ravaged my religious wars and where books and reading are regarded with suspicion. Twelve year old Mosca Mye is the orphaned daughter on a learned man whose books has been burned. She runs away from home in the company of shade character by the name of Clent and her goose Saracen and together they are suddenly up into their ears in the plots and counterplots of various guilds and religious falangs. It was a good book even if I didn’t get really interested three fourths into it.
What I have been watching: Kid and I have a season left of the Seventh Doctor, which I’m sad about. And we both squeed very happily when the fez showed up in Silver Nemesis. I must say that I think Seven is much more like New Who than the rest of the classics in the way the stories are constructed. And I love Ace! Finally a capable companion again who isn't treated as a sex object.
Still watching The Strain and liking the second season more than the first. Rupert Penry-Jones has showed up as an half-breed vampire (how that is possible I don’t know as these vampires are sexless). I also like the vampire mother who longs for her still human child. She may be evil, but her love for him is rather heartbreaking. Still dislike the hero doctor though. he gets worse by the episode.
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Clogham was very good, though. I liked the world building, the premise being that there are a number of alternate universes, ruled either by order or chaos to various degrees. The more chaotic a universe is, the more íllogical things can be true, like vampires or werewolves. Faeries belong to chaos and dragons to order. Then there is the library which exist on a plane of it’s own. Its librarians are sent out to different worlds to retrieve books, something that can be very dangerous. Irene is a junior librarian and she is sent to find a book in a steampunk Victorian London, along with a new and mysterious assistant, the much too beautiful Kai. she quickly realizes that she isn’t the only one who wants the book. The recent owner has been murdered and there is a rival librarian who wants it and, worse of all the Renegade Librarian. she and Kai teams up with a private detective who is almost but not quite Sherlock Holmes.
I also liked the character’s and the pacing and found the plot engaging. There is a hint of a budding romance, this is the first book in a series, but this isn’t a love story as much as an adventure. I would say that both Diana Wynne Jones and Doctor Who has influenced the author, but only in a good way. I look forward to the next book, due to be published in December.
Fly By Night by Francis Hardinge. YA fantasy set in a sort-of early 18th century England. It’s a place ravaged my religious wars and where books and reading are regarded with suspicion. Twelve year old Mosca Mye is the orphaned daughter on a learned man whose books has been burned. She runs away from home in the company of shade character by the name of Clent and her goose Saracen and together they are suddenly up into their ears in the plots and counterplots of various guilds and religious falangs. It was a good book even if I didn’t get really interested three fourths into it.
What I have been watching: Kid and I have a season left of the Seventh Doctor, which I’m sad about. And we both squeed very happily when the fez showed up in Silver Nemesis. I must say that I think Seven is much more like New Who than the rest of the classics in the way the stories are constructed. And I love Ace! Finally a capable companion again who isn't treated as a sex object.
Still watching The Strain and liking the second season more than the first. Rupert Penry-Jones has showed up as an half-breed vampire (how that is possible I don’t know as these vampires are sexless). I also like the vampire mother who longs for her still human child. She may be evil, but her love for him is rather heartbreaking. Still dislike the hero doctor though. he gets worse by the episode.