Wednesday means I know what to post

[starlady]

What I'm reading
I picked up Chrestomanci volume 1 again last night - I read Charmed Life in December, and the second book in this volume is The Many Lives of Christopher Chant. Holy god the early 2000s covers are hideous I suspect I am coming too late to DWJ to love her wholeheartedly the way other people do (damn her books being OOP in the 90s!), but I'm enjoying these so far. There is a very strong whiff of The Magician's Nephew about the whole thing, and given that TMN is one of my favorite Narnia books, I approve.

What I've just read
I finished Alaya Dawn Johnson's Racing the Dark on Monday evening and then promptly dreamed about zombies on an island a la Kingdom Hearts, very obviously influenced by the book. Longer post to follow, but very highly recommended, even with the series being unfinished. I also just read Zen Cho's The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, which was practically perfect in every way.

What I'll read next
It's high time for A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (yes, I have an ARC). Then I need to start seriously on all the YA books I have piled up, because those, as much as I love them, take less brain wattage than adult novels, and the semester is starting up again.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

I haven't seen the film yet! Maybe sometime. I didn't like the book much, regardless.

+1 no DWJ as a kid. I bounced off A Sudden Wild Magic in high school, then fell unreasonably in love with Hexwood. Dunno.

[coffeeandink]

I reread all of DWJ last year, or maybe the year before?, and was surprised to find A Sudden Wild Magic wasn't quite as terrible as I remembered it. It's still pretty bad, though.

Hexwood is probably the latest written of her novels that's on my Greatest Hits of Diana Wynne Jones list.

[thistleingrey]

Hmm, good to know--I'd wondered how SWM would read for an adult, but I hadn't wondered quite enough to hunt down a copy yet.