I got all the Pratchett books off Humble Bundle so here we gooooooo (again)
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Library Orb started reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #33)
Library Orb rated The Virgin in the Ice: 4 stars
The Virgin in the Ice by Edith Pargeter
Cadfael attends to a brother beaten and left for dead, and searches for missing siblings and their nun escort. In …
Library Orb finished reading Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
Library Orb started reading Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
Library Orb finished reading The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle (6))
Library Orb finished reading Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
Library Orb rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 5 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Library Orb finished reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Library Orb finished reading Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Library Orb finished reading A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Decided to re-read this one on a whim and there was so much I didn't remember. Just a really, all-around fun novel. It's particularly interesting to see this more lavish version of Peters' prose, which she refines but also streamlines through the later books in the series. Here, she's willing to make more comical asides and revel in setting the scene a little more.
Library Orb finished reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I picked this up at the recommendation of another Bookwyrm user just a few days ago and tore through it in just two sittings. I very much enjoyed Clarke's first novel, but its difficult language and enormous size made it difficult to grasp the whole story. Piranesi is fast, almost breezy, but still has Clarke's incredible world building. The House—an infinite collection of halls and vestibules populated with unending statues, with a sea sloshing around the lower floor and clouds filling the upper—is an incredibly potent concept, and one I know will stick with me. If you love Borges, you'll love this book.
Library Orb rated Piranesi: 5 stars
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon …
The Confession of Brother Haluin (Brother Cadfael Mysteries) by Edith Pargeter (Brother Cadfael (15))
The Confession of Brother Haluin is a medieval mystery novel set in the winter of 1142–1143 by Ellis Peters. It …
Library Orb finished reading The Confession of Brother Haluin (Brother Cadfael Mysteries) by Edith Pargeter (Brother Cadfael (15))
This is one of my favorite Cadfael books I've read so far. Unlike Summer of the Danes, the journey of Haluin and Cadfael is much more meaningful and interesting, propelling the plot as they go. Like a fable, Cadfael and Haluin blunder into what feels like another world, and discover secrets, mystery, and the miraculous. It's a keeper.