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listersgirlPamela Dean Tam Lin
I really enjoyed this. It's a story that takes place on a college campus in the 70's, based around the old Scottish ballad Tam Lin, which gives the whole thing an air of surrealism and mysticism that I really liked. Actually, it almost felt like two different books, so much time was spent on the school part, but it was actually the school stuff that sucked me in more, making me want to sit around reading and discussing the classics. In fact, the day after I finished the book I caught myself wanting to study Latin, which has never happened before. I think partially this was because the college experience described in the book was so completely different to my university experience that it, too, felt like a fairy tale.
Laurie R. King The Moor
The more of these books I read, the more I forget that one of the characters is actually Sherlock Holmes. I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm a little 'meh' about this book - I loved the atmosphere and the setting, but the story didn't do much for me.
Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow
It's hard to know what to say about this book because I'm still digesting it, having just finished it at lunch, but I can definitely say that it was very powerful, and pretty devastating. It's nominally the story of a group of people who find a transmission of music that indicates there's life on another planet, and put together an expedition to find out the source of that music. What makes it especially interesting is that four of the members are Jesuit priests, and the book talks a lot about issues of faith - where faith comes from and what it does for you. For me, as someone with no belief system, it was like being offered a window into another person's culture, and that alone was fascinating. Sorry, I'm not very articulate today, but I would definitely recommend this book.
I really enjoyed this. It's a story that takes place on a college campus in the 70's, based around the old Scottish ballad Tam Lin, which gives the whole thing an air of surrealism and mysticism that I really liked. Actually, it almost felt like two different books, so much time was spent on the school part, but it was actually the school stuff that sucked me in more, making me want to sit around reading and discussing the classics. In fact, the day after I finished the book I caught myself wanting to study Latin, which has never happened before. I think partially this was because the college experience described in the book was so completely different to my university experience that it, too, felt like a fairy tale.
Laurie R. King The Moor
The more of these books I read, the more I forget that one of the characters is actually Sherlock Holmes. I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm a little 'meh' about this book - I loved the atmosphere and the setting, but the story didn't do much for me.
Mary Doria Russell The Sparrow
It's hard to know what to say about this book because I'm still digesting it, having just finished it at lunch, but I can definitely say that it was very powerful, and pretty devastating. It's nominally the story of a group of people who find a transmission of music that indicates there's life on another planet, and put together an expedition to find out the source of that music. What makes it especially interesting is that four of the members are Jesuit priests, and the book talks a lot about issues of faith - where faith comes from and what it does for you. For me, as someone with no belief system, it was like being offered a window into another person's culture, and that alone was fascinating. Sorry, I'm not very articulate today, but I would definitely recommend this book.
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Date: 2004-10-07 01:33 pm (UTC)