Books read Jan 2024
Jan. 26th, 2024 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theboystuBy Light Alone by Adam Roberts - very well written, somehow meshing modernism with a story of the 22nd century. If it has a failing, it's one that the text actually points to: for a satire of the excesses of wealth, it places the wealthy at the centre of the narrative, with the poor serving that story.
The Gradual by Christopher Priest - not my favourite Priest, the formality of the prose put distance between me and the protagonist, and I'm not surely I full understood the central premise and what it was saying. But the concept is enchanting.
The First Ten by Jamie Matheson - Short story collection. Mix of genres all very memorable for the high concepts.
A Heart full of Headstones by Ian Rankin - I've only read a few Rebus novels so might have come to this too soon! But intriguing for the inclusion of Covid in the narrative and how that's wound in, and a good plot that shows that Rebus is his own worst enemy as much as Big Ger.
The Gradual by Christopher Priest - not my favourite Priest, the formality of the prose put distance between me and the protagonist, and I'm not surely I full understood the central premise and what it was saying. But the concept is enchanting.
The First Ten by Jamie Matheson - Short story collection. Mix of genres all very memorable for the high concepts.
A Heart full of Headstones by Ian Rankin - I've only read a few Rebus novels so might have come to this too soon! But intriguing for the inclusion of Covid in the narrative and how that's wound in, and a good plot that shows that Rebus is his own worst enemy as much as Big Ger.
