Friday, 8 April 2011
Mumming down
Well, my pregnancy ended on the 16th Feb and I am now the slightly shell-shocked co-owner of a tiny daughter.
I read the following books whilst pregnant but didn't manage to finish blog entries for them:
Fight Club by Chuck Palahunik
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Robin Ince's Bad Book Club
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Havoc in its Third Year by Ronan Bennet
Day Watch by Sergei Lukyaneko
Perhaps I will get round to finishing some of these. Maybe when daughter is 18.
Anyway, what with the horrific lack of sleep it was 4 weeks after the birth before I could concentrate enough to read anything at all and I can only manage very easy books. That's right, I'm back on the Trudi Canavan, or Trudgy Caravan as my friend Jules calls her.
I've just finished "The Novice", the sequel to Magicians' Guild. In this book Sonea (the street urchin with magical powers) starts her training in magic. Unfortunately, the other novices don't want to share lessons with a guttersnipe and Sonea becomes the victim of endless magical bullying. When it becomes clear how strong a magician Sonea is, her training is taken over by the sinister High Lord which causes as many problems as it solves.
My main criticism is that Sonea's cheif tormentor amoung the novices, Regin, is not a fully realised character and just seems to be malice on legs. Despite this I can't wait to read the final book and find out what the High Lord of the magicians' guild is up to!
Labels:
Fantasy,
young adult
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