Reviews and Comments

Finished this (just Affrican and Mensola). It got a bit easier for me to understand it by the end.

I'm just reading Affrican and Mensola and not in this edition - I found an earlier printing online.

This is a very challenging read for me even though it's so short. The language isn't that bad and I'm used to the long s enough that I no longer see it, but this also has u=v and i=j, is in blackletter and has the r rotunda.

Have this one in audiobook format.

Anthology #2

I've been reading Brackett's Solar System series by rough pub order but there isn't a single anthology that has all the stories, so had to work out a way that was least overlapping. Gonna read this and 2 other anthologies simultaneously.

Third of these things I've listened to in the last month - on a kick. This one was more enjoyable than the last one.

A retelling of the Gallic Wars with multiple POVs - most frequently a young man from Brittany.

Doesn't seem to have aged that badly but I'm not familiar with Roman history, so I can't evaluate it on that level. There's kindness and empathy for other people in it.

It has a map. I needed the map.

Ick this was a trial - what an unpleasant POV to follow for an entire book. Anyway, read and done. I was going to read the sequels but I think I don't hate myself that much.

A lot of people seem to have read this a child - seems like a rather unkind thing to make a child read. This and Gulliver's Travels both.

Was a bit bored with this by the end, not as entertaining as some others.

Interesting as a historical document.

Not one of my favorites in this series - I've spent a decent amount of my life being stressed out in airports and there's a lot of airport in this one.

These are dated but nicely plotted - I hate it when the 'suspect 1 interview' -> 'suspect 2 interview' -> 'suspect 3 interview' -> 'dramatic mystery solving encounter' plot outline is too transparent. These do not do that.

There's some 'meaningful quote' passages I think should have been edited out but it isn't intrusive.

This one, contrasting it with the one I just DNF'd, is a better choice.

I'm playing a NF reading game - trying to find books on Gilgamesh. This one has a chapter on Gilgamesh, decided that's good enough.

DNF'ing this nonfiction book about Gilgamesh.

Onto Vol 2/3, not as entertaining as I'd hoped but still not bad.

Expected this to have letters from both Ellinor and Matilda, but we're still on Matilda. Maybe it switches at the halfway point.

I'm not sure how much of this series I want to read - the intended audience seems young, lots of people in reviews talking about how they loved Norton as a pre-teen. I think children's imaginations are better at filling in missing details, so Norton's abruptness'd work in its favor, there.

Four from the Witch World has a CJ Cherryh story but it's pretty far back in the series.