Stuff I read: February 2011 edition
Mar. 3rd, 2011 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phoenix64See, this is why I was hesitant to start doing this. My books finished in February come to a grand total of 1.
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
I've never read any of the Cadfael books before, and I've only watched one or two of the TV adaptations (the only one I remember for sure is "Virgin in the Ice"). I'd sort of thought about picking these up for a long time now and I've been reading classic mysteries again recently andj_quadrifrons has been a bad influence. Overall I enjoyed it quite a bit. Cadfael is almost a little too good to be true, a man who enjoyed the adventurous life he had when he was younger with few regrets but equally enjoys the (theoretically) more peaceful monastic life he's come to in his later years. But literary comfort food is not necessarily a bad thing and I look forward to more of Cadfael. (I've already brought the next book home from the library but I am not allowed to read it until I finish at least one of the books in front of it!) I like the characters that Peters creates and I enjoy the cultural/social history we get along with the political history, though I'm enjoying that as well, especially since this is a period I'm not that familiar with already. The mystery plot itself and Cadfael as detective were less engaging but the little I know of the series leads me to think this will improve.
I did read bits of a few other books but nothing close to finishing; I even had to return one to the library because I'd renewed it the maximum number of times, meaning I'd had it for nine weeks. Sheesh. I'm attempting to blame some of this on the fact that I really need to get new glasses because eye strain is becoming an issue. Hush, I'm allowed to tell myself whateverlies rationalizations I want to.
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
I've never read any of the Cadfael books before, and I've only watched one or two of the TV adaptations (the only one I remember for sure is "Virgin in the Ice"). I'd sort of thought about picking these up for a long time now and I've been reading classic mysteries again recently and
j_quadrifrons has been a bad influence. Overall I enjoyed it quite a bit. Cadfael is almost a little too good to be true, a man who enjoyed the adventurous life he had when he was younger with few regrets but equally enjoys the (theoretically) more peaceful monastic life he's come to in his later years. But literary comfort food is not necessarily a bad thing and I look forward to more of Cadfael. (I've already brought the next book home from the library but I am not allowed to read it until I finish at least one of the books in front of it!) I like the characters that Peters creates and I enjoy the cultural/social history we get along with the political history, though I'm enjoying that as well, especially since this is a period I'm not that familiar with already. The mystery plot itself and Cadfael as detective were less engaging but the little I know of the series leads me to think this will improve.I did read bits of a few other books but nothing close to finishing; I even had to return one to the library because I'd renewed it the maximum number of times, meaning I'd had it for nine weeks. Sheesh. I'm attempting to blame some of this on the fact that I really need to get new glasses because eye strain is becoming an issue. Hush, I'm allowed to tell myself whatever
