Books 27-31

I haven’t reported my book reading for a while, so will do so here.

Books 27-29 were the remaining three books in Louise Rennison’s series about Georgia Nicolson. They’re called Knocked out by my Nunga-Nungas, Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants and Away Laughing on a fast Camel. There’s another book out, but it’s not anywhere where I can access it. The last three books in the series were quick reads. Rennison clearly is putting out product now, and is more likely to make jokes about knickers than tell a good story. And I hated Georgia with each passing moment.

Book 30: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. I struggled through this book, too, because at the time I had nothing else to read. I found lots of the themes disturbing, and not in a pleasant way.
The climax of the book concerned the two main characters, Lyra and Will, falling in love and, well, having sex. Those characters were maybe twelve and thirteen. I thought the very idea of that was creepy. And the anti-religion stuff annoyed me, even though I’m not religious myself.

Book 31: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. I love this book. It took me ages and ages to get into it, and I’m moving through A Clash of Kings at about the same pace, although that’s because someone else has A Storm of Swords checked out from the library already. Anyway, once I got all the people straight in my head, AGOT was a wonderful book. It’s not light reading, and nothing happens as you’d expect it to. Martin draws his characters well. There is no real good or evil, just a lot of moral ambiguity, which I like because, yes, that’s how things are in the real world.