Ah ha! You've heard of 'resting on your laurels'? Well, I am resting my eyeballs, in recognition of being 100 books away from my 2022 goal of reading 500 books this year. Those whose eyeballs are currently bugging out in astonishment or scepticism should remember that a sizeable portion of this pie includes picture books, comics, graphic novels and novellas. I endorse the short read! 😁📚
pickVery fun, one joke after another.
Read this as a buddy-read with one friend. We are getting together tomorrow to discuss it.
pickJust as with the first one, I cannot believe how much was crammed into this second book.👌🏻Adore the writing, the world building is exquisite - in the places visited, beings encountered, rules/truths about books and stories framing the narrative. MASTERFUL at ratcheting up the tension: Interpersonal conflict, trying to fix things without communication, questions of identity & purpose. The romance? Didn't see it coming, ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.
90% at the mercy of "inscrutable women", 10% "blind terror".
Glorious!
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"Paradise, it seemed, was distinctly rural."
Oh, I do hope so.
Since I have the whole series now I‘m starting with the first book for a read through 📖🤗
#manicmonday #letterG
📚 tagged! One of my all time faves
🖋 written by Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
📺 GOONIES!
🎤 Garbage
🎶 when I Grow up & stupid Girl (by Garbage)
so-soI love the series, & I‘m happy with how it ended, but this was my least favorite. There were slow parts that made it difficult to focus, & there‘s a couple of questions left unanswered for me. Such as, something happens to one of the main characters connecting him to a curse among Greta‘s mummy patients (even though he‘s not a mummy), & yet we never find out why/how he was connected. But I enjoyed the story & the narrator is still amazing.
