Ramblings and Booking through Thursday
I’m kind of giddy, because I’m at the state of exhaustion where I should have been to bed hours ago but I didn’t, because I was doing schoolwork, and now I’m really wanting sleep in a huge way.
Incidentally, I finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I really liked it, though after about the 8000th mention of vomit, I’m sure you can all guess what I was ready to do. But the book was definitely awesome, particularly the line, “Girls! Pentagram of Death!”
Anyway… Here’s this week’s Booking through Thursday:
Which is worse?
Finding a book you love and then hating everything else you try by that author, or
Reading a completely disappointing book by an author that you love?
Definitely the second. My only experience with the first has been Jude Deveraux. I read her famous Montgomery series when I was a teenager. Oh, the drama! Oh, the romance! I wanted a Montgomery of my own. Then, as an adult, I tried with some of her other books and wondered exactly how much crack either the author or I had been indulging in, because they were so bad I couldn’t finish them.
In the second case, though, there is Charles de Lint. I’ve loved most of his books, and the sad day when I will have no more De Lint to read ever will be a depressing day for me. I love the sense of wonder his books create, and I adore the way he does urban fantasy, and his blending of folk music and Native American and Celtic traditions. I want to live in his head, I really do.
Then… well… there was Spirits in the Wires. Maybe it was the often jarring switch from first to third person, a style I absolutely loathe but which De Lint continues to use. Maybe it was the way that, even though Jilly Coppercorn made no appearance in the story, there had to be a few random asides about her. Maybe it was that I listened to it on audio and hated the narrators. All of these things are true, and I suspect that, in a different combination, they wouldn’t have bugged me. But they did, and I can’t even think about that book without sighing.
I loved the Montgomery series way back when! I still read Jude Deveraux and, although I may not absolutely love every book she writes, I still read and enjoy them for the most part.
I’ve never heard of Charles de Lint, but the urban fantasy/Native American/Celtic mixture sounds fascinating. I’ll have to give him a try.
Wasn’t PPZ fantastic? I loved it and glad you enjoyed it as well. (Wasn’t the Wickham ending just awesome? So deserved it.)