Books, books and more books

So I had a lot of time to read, and so I did. Here’s what I managed to finish.

I’m not going to post reviews because I read a lot and don’t really feel like doing more than summarizing.

Book 13: Sea of Silver Light: Otherland, Volume 4 by Tad Williams. A great way to close out the series though it did go on a bit too long.

Book 14: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Quite funny and full of interesting facts delivered in a droll, witty style which I liked very much.

Book 15: Deerskin by Robin McKinley. An interesting story. The climactic moments of the book seemed very weird to me, and they didn’t make much sense, and the main character was something of a Mary Sue, but she gets raped by her own father, so I guess that’s a compensation.

Book 16: Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. Definitely not King’s usual style, but a gripping read nonetheless.

Book 17: Trader by Charles de Lint. The things I hated about Onion Girl> and Spirits in the Wires weren’t there. It was a very well-told story, although I think I may be one of the few De Lint readers who could really despise his character Joe Crazy Dog, known in this book as Bones.
Book 18: Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. I really enjoyed this book. Not enough to pick up any of Maguire’s other titles, but it was an interesting story anyway, and makes me think of Oz in a completely different light. I didn’t really identify much with Elpheba, the main character and the aforementioned witch, but I didn’t despise her the way I did several of the other characters.