false 12 93 59 true 5737374 read 0 true 512395 currently-reading 34 true 512394 to-read 8 false 4452558 did-not-finish 8 false 4725026 interesting-looking-but-doomed <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World [EasyRead Comfort Edition]']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72366841 The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World [EasyRead Comfort Edition] (Paperback) by Margaret Cavendish
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I avoided this for a long time, because if there's one thing I kind of dislike in YA literature, it's the whole grow-up-and-sacrifice-imagination theme. Which this is full of. It's not a bad book; I think if I was fifteen, I would have gotten more out of it. The writing is, of course, lovely.

Le Guin is really kind of consumed with the issue of gendered violence in anything she writes that takes place in our culture, which can be jarring when you're used to books that don't blame the patriarchy quite so much. Her points are valid; however, it can make some of her writing rather sobering. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'Johnny and the Dead']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557896 to: Johnny and the Dead (Johnny Maxwell, #2) by Terry Pratchett
A really wonderful book about history and memory and saving people. I liked this book a great deal and wish to reread it soon. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557853 to: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28) by Terry Pratchett
I found this, to my recollection, tedious. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'Hogfather']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557673 Hogfather (Discworld, #20) by Terry Pratchett
I do like Susan, and the central myth and metaphor here is interesting and not overly preachy. I really like the metaphysics of Discworld a lot. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'Going Postal']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557649 Going Postal (Discworld, #29) by Terry Pratchett
Another somewhat-sketchy-character-just-bucks-up-and-does-amazing-things book. I love these. I especially love that the Unseen University makes almost no appearance. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'The Truth']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557753 to: The Truth (Discworld, #25) by Terry Pratchett
See, this. This is one of the Pratchett books where I really adore his overblown metaphors and also his somewhat feckless characters. I really wonder if there's something super-british about his belief that everyday people can just buck up and get their kind of insipid selves together and do extraordinary things. I don't know why. It just seems British. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'The Last Continent']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557823 to: The Last Continent (Discworld, #22) by Terry Pratchett
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This was one of those books where I felt like Pratchett was having a lot of fun but I was starting to wonder if I had anything else I could be doing while he carried on. I find the Unseen University crew less sympathetic then pretty much all of his other characters - they're buffoonish and kind of slow, and they annoy me.

I guess I didn't like this book. ]]> <![CDATA[Sapote3 added 'A Hat Full of Sky']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64557799 to: A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld: Tiffany Aching, #2) by Terry Pratchett
I read this in the world's most comforting coffeeshop, so maybe that influenced my feeling that this is a really wonderful book. ]]>