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Originally Posted by Mastodon
Thanks for asking. I am also alive - survived T this morning (thank you to all pocket riders  ).
A couple of weeks ago I read Kate Atkinson's latest, Life After Life. Really good novel. I like Atkinson's books and this is probably th best one she's written. It is about a woman who lives her life several times - she doesn't know it, she's not born with the knowledge that she's been there before, but she gets a lot of deja vu sensations, and the way different scenarios are played out differently based on chance or choice is really interesting and well-written. Right now I'm reading a fantasy series by an author called Mike Shevdon, and I like these books a lot, too. He writes fantasy set in contemporary Britain, with a lot of British folklore interwoven - very dark and realistic books, but not hopelessly so. I get Neil Gaiman vibes, though Gaiman is more ruthless (and a more polished writer - Shevdon has only published four novels so far, but he writes really well I think.) |
Happy to hear you survived T. I read that you didn't really think it went well but I hope you feel better about it soon.
Life After Life sounds interesting. I've never heard of it before.
Do you like Neil Gaiman's books? I've only read one so far.
The Ocean At the End of the Lane (have you read it?). I read it quite recently and I really quite liked it so I purchased
Neverwhere and
Coraline & Other Stories a few weeks ago but I haven't read them yet. Been too busy with the first book in
A Song of Ice and Fire (
A Game of Thrones) and some other books.
I'm in some kind of phase where I read a lot of fiction, which usually doesn't happen very often. I'm more of non-fiction kind of person. I usually read a lot of non-fiction and then read fiction when I'm too tired to really think (does that make sense?) but lately it's been the other way around. More fiction and less books about the brain etc.