I've been reading a lot, oops
Jun. 11th, 2011 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crantz
Hihi! Long time no post. I've read a fair few books in this time, actually.
Let me see...
This is one of the best known Hercule Poirot mysteries, if my knowledge of pop culture references is anything to go by. I'd actually managed to remain amazingly unspoiled for it (except for a comment my mom made a week before I started reading. That woman has mutant timing powers) and it was cool seeing it all unfold. Definitely enjoyed it, and Poirot remains adorbs. I also watched a few of the 2000something Poirot series, and that was great fun.
This is is a modern book, it's from a series of mystery cosies with Beatrix Potter as the main character. I went into it hoping for plucky girl detective and while I enjoyed the book, it... didn't exactly give me that. Actually, it didn't give me a mystery at all, really. I guess there was the whole 'where is the parish book' and 'where is the money'. Also, the animals wear clothes in the second half of the book, where in the first half they were acting fairly normal, if talking to eachother. So I'm still not sure what I think of that. Like, it was supposed to be just a thing she did in her books, I thought. IN ANY CASE I bought the sequel.
I'm glad I read this, because I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I just get confused when I try to describe it. So... moving onto the last item. I may actually re-address this in a later post, because it really deserves more said about it, if only to squee about Mrs. Whatsit and Aunt Beast.
I'm not sure why, but I've decided to read the entire Harry Potter series, starting with the ones I have read, and then powering on to the two I haven't, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows.
You guys remember how Jill Pole was half Chinese to me in The Silver Chair? Well, based on an icon I saw once that was rather inspiring, I've been reading Harry Potter with Hermione as black. So far the book hasn't contradicted me, so... experiment success.
It's fun reading them all in a rush when you've read the later ones, because the foreshadowing is like nuts in your snickers bar. Right now I've started on The Order of the Phoenix and have successfully navigated Harry's page of all-caps, much like I trudged through Dobby in Chamber of Secrets. Christ, Dobby. Am I right?
It makes me want to write alternate history fic, the stories, where Harry has adventures, but a different childhood. The main obstacle with this is thinking of new ways Voldemort will try to murder the little guy. So. working on that while I read. Also, I shipped Hermione/Krum.
Oh yeah, pictured above? Snape's book illustration.