Re: Books: 2nd Edition
Posted: Mar 03, 2018 9:10 pm
I'm currently following Valia down the G. K. Chesterton path. I just finished The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond myself. It's classic Chesterton: several vivid images splashed on the page and then a few brain-bending twists to make it all come out. There were a couple of stand-out stories in the collection. The Unmentionable Man may appeal to those fond of the Ruritanian genre, and The Ring of Lovers is quite brilliant.
The Man Who Knew Too Much is also a collection of mysteries and follows a slightly more conventional early British detective fiction style. (The detective character has some things in common with Sayers' Lord Peter Whimsey but lacks Lord Peter's gift of gab.)
I also just started Arcanum Unbound by Brandon Sanderson after having a couple of friends enthusiastically recommend The Emperor's Soul which, conveniently enough, was the first story in the collection.
I finished The Women Who Wrote the War; it was quite good but I needed to take it at chapter a time just because of the scale and scope. It gave an interesting view of WWII, especially for one who tends to focus on certain areas to the exclusion of others. I left this book wanting to read more about certain areas and figures.
For my next non-fiction read I dove into Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death which talks about how a culture is influenced by its primary form of communication.
...I feel like there's at least one other book in my recent leapfrogging from volume to volume that I wanted to comment on but now I can't think of what it is.
The Man Who Knew Too Much is also a collection of mysteries and follows a slightly more conventional early British detective fiction style. (The detective character has some things in common with Sayers' Lord Peter Whimsey but lacks Lord Peter's gift of gab.)
I also just started Arcanum Unbound by Brandon Sanderson after having a couple of friends enthusiastically recommend The Emperor's Soul which, conveniently enough, was the first story in the collection.
I finished The Women Who Wrote the War; it was quite good but I needed to take it at chapter a time just because of the scale and scope. It gave an interesting view of WWII, especially for one who tends to focus on certain areas to the exclusion of others. I left this book wanting to read more about certain areas and figures.
For my next non-fiction read I dove into Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death which talks about how a culture is influenced by its primary form of communication.
...I feel like there's at least one other book in my recent leapfrogging from volume to volume that I wanted to comment on but now I can't think of what it is.