Thursday, December 6, 2012
Hi LOL Group! We are meeting December 20th for our last LOL meeting of 2012! Please come prepared to talk about the best book you read in 2012. Why did you like it? How did it make you feel? Please come prepared to discuss a specific passage or theme in the book that made it meaningful to you!
If you have time, please start posting some ideas ahead of time! Thanks and I will see you in a couple of weeks.
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I read Inkspell. It was not my favorite because I can't even remember every book I read plus I wouldn't be able to decide anyway. I like in it when Dustfinger makes fire flowers and I can see them in my head as huge flames in the form of flowers. In my head it looks amazing. If it happened in real life I would be speechless.
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ReplyDeleteI'm going to be the first blogger of 2013. Since we broke for break I have been dabbling in some mysteries. "Murder in Belleville" is part of a series featuring Paris detective Aimée Leduc. This one centers on a militant faction of Algerian revolutionaries doing dirty deeds to procure weapons. Good story and a great take on modern France.
Next up was "Disco for the Departed" by Colin Cotterill. This series features one of my favorite protagonists, Dr. Siri Paiboun. The stories are set in Laos in the late 1970's. The Americans are out of Southeast Asia and the Communists are trying to pick up the pieces and create some order from the chaos. Dr. Siri is not the least of their problems. He is 73 years old and has been pulled out of retirement to serve as national coroner. He is not happy about it and has problems with authority. The other things that you need to know about Dr. Siri are that he is frequently visited by dead people and his body hosts the spirit of a powerful 3,000 year old shaman. Other than that, this is a pretty ordinary detective story.
Finally, I am in the last pages of "Mr. Dixon Disappears" by Ian Sansom. The plot centers on the fact that Mr. Dixon has disappeared. Israel Armstrong is trying to find him. Israel is Jewish and serves as the mobile librarian for the community of Tumdrum in Northern Ireland. To be honest, the story doesn't move very quickly, but it is hilarious. The culture clashes between Israel and the locals are highly entertaining, and the mystery is of secondary importance.
Who else read over break?