WG: Catching up on reviews (reviews? what reviews?)

[yati]

This week's Weekly Geeks left me scratching my head. Our assignment this time is to list the books we haven't reviewed yet, and get other readers to ask questions. Not difficult, right? Just list the books and wait for questions!

Here's the thing -- I haven't reviewed anything the whole year. Possibly nothing since July last year. I think the last reviews I did were for a same task when Dewey posted about it way back then, and even then I didn't manage to answer all the questions. (Awful, aren't I.) But I still want to participate this time, so here's the list.

I've decided to be kind to myself and post only the titles of the books I read this year. Here goes:

June
Superior Saturday by Garth Nix
[manga] Descendants of Darkness Volume 4 by Yoko Matsushita
[manga] Descendants of Darkness Volume 3 by Yoko Matsushita
[manga] Descendants of Darkness Volume 2 by Yoko Matsushita
[manga] Descendants of Darkness Volume 1 by Yoko Matsushita

May
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

April
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
The Little Prince (and Letter to a Hostage) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
[picture book] Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar

March
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Cygnet by Patricia A McKillip
The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett

February
Niccolò Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

January
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
Royal Escape by Georgette Heyer
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie


The list is copied directly from this page here, where I list all the books I've read this year.

If you have questions, fire away!

Comments

[From: louspages.blogspot.com]

Was the Salman Rushdie book difficult to read?

Moonbird

[From: (Anonymous)]

I'm intrigued by Moonbird. Do you think it would appeal to children as much as adults? Do you think it would be an interesting choice for kids who have learned "baby signing"?

Did you like the Graveyard Book? I'm thinking about suggesting it to our co-ed book club, where the members all have different tastes in books. Do you think it is likely to appeal to a wide audience?

[From: (Anonymous)]

I've had To Say Nothing of the Dog on my TBR list forever. Is this worth moving up in the pile? What was your favorite book out of this list and why?

Gautami's comments

[From: readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.com]

I want to know more about Manga books. Do you think I ought to explore those? How does one go about it?

http://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.com/2009/06/weekly-geeks-catching-up-with-reviews.html

[From: completeandunabridged.blogspot.com]

I've heard a lot about "The Lttle Prince". What was your overall impression of it and do you think it lives up to its hype?

Gaiman

[From: (Anonymous)]

I'm part of the Dream King Challenge (http://dreamkingchallenge.blogspot.com/), and I'm wondering if The Graveyard Book should make the final cut. What did you think of The Graveyard book? If you've read other Gaiman works, how does it compare?

My post is here (http://eclectcentric.blogspot.com/2009/06/weekly-geeks.html?showComment=1245111493594) if you haven't seen it yet.

[From: yati]

Oh dear. This moving to Dreamwidth plot has backfired in ways I hadn't anticipated -- people not signing their comments and well-formed URLs left by anonymous commenters not automatically turning into hyperlinks!

Will still answer questions, though. But everyone! Please consider OpenID, for the sake of being identifiable and not having to fill captchas! :)

[From: yati]

Wait. Let me test something. This here is a URL: http://www.dreamwidth.org/

[From: cyrnelle.livejournal.com]

And this here is a test using an OpenID which has validated its email address:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/

[From: yati]

Alas, it doesn't seem to apply to OpenID accounts. I will have to check and confirm whether this is expected behaviour.

[From: yati]

A bug! A bug! It looks like Bug 90 covers this.

Now I shall stop investigating things on a WG post and concentrate on books. >.>

WG

[From: (Anonymous)]

Is Midnight’s Children a controversial novel?

I found Androids Dream of Electric Sheep quite sad (imagine having a limited supply of animals) and it made me want to learn more about conservation – did the book influence you in any way?