while she knits/surfs

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

While we're waiting waiting waiting for another book, tell everyone:

What have you read lately that you would wholeheartedly recommend?

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[hwaet.livejournal.com]

I read the reviews for this and thought "yes...yes...yes!" and put it immediately on my book order, waited impatiently for it to come, and was so disappointed when I simply could not get into it at all. Maybe I wasn't reading it carefully enough, but I couldn't connect with the characters, couldn't keep the different regions straight, and I was disappointed in the killings. Then again, I also couldn't really get into Jellicoe Road either (although I still bawled through the last forty pages or so). I know her fans are many, and I did like Saving Francesca, so I think this must be a failing on my end.

I also got The Lost Conspiracy in the same order, which I did enjoy and then pressed into the hands of a reader too polite to not take it, and A Brief History of Montmaray, which I enjoyed but which left me wanting more at the end.

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

I loved Jellicoe Road, but had the same reaction to Finnikin that you did.

[thief-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Ah no, that happened to me too with FotR... :(

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

was so disappointed when I simply could not get into it at all. Maybe I wasn't reading it carefully enough, but I couldn't connect with the characters, couldn't keep the different regions straight, and I was disappointed in the killings.

I could have written this exact thing...about The Lost Conspiracy! I read half of it and finally let myself quit. Every page was a chore. Too funny!

[hwaet.livejournal.com]

That is too funny! It did take a few chapters for me to get into The Lost Conspiracy and to keep the Lost and the Lace straight (and maybe there was some literary purpose for naming one group "the Lace" but the name just confused me) but having read so many comments about it during the SLJ Battle of the Books, I kept going. Not my favorite book of all time, but I definitely enjoyed it in the end.

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

I am torn over buying Finnikin, as I loved Marchetta's first two books, found On the Jellicoe Road a bit meh but Finnikin does sound interesting. Hmmm...

To add to the mix of likes and dislikes everyone is demonstrating, I love The Lost Conspiracy :)