Eddie's Fancy

Continuing to crunch through the Thursday Next series, this time she’s babysitting Hamlet in the real world while there’s trouble at home and in the Book World. And enough Shakespeare jokes and Falstaff to make me happy.

However, some of the anti-Denmark jokes are too close to what real politician use when they don’t want you looking behind the curtain.

I’m officially hooked on Thursday Next. They’re not the greatest books ever written, but they’re a good step up from bubblegum too. Thursday joins Jurisfiction and saves the world, hilarity ensues.

I’ve been a long time reader of Stephen King since I started with Salem’s Lot in Junior High and was up all night because I though Hubie Marsten was hanging in my closet. I’ve been slacking off since he finished the Gunslinger books, probably burnout.

I enjoyed Duma Key and blazed through it in a few days, but it was the enjoyment that comes from meeting an old friend, it wasn’t anything I hadn’t read before.

That’s the sounds you hear after Hurricane Ike. We were lucky and were spared major damage. Just lost a tree and a fence and had a yard full of debris. Power came back on Saturday but the water isn’t drinkable and cable/Internet is out.

I hope our office opens tomorrow, I need a vacation from hauling debris.

This is the second in the Thursday Next series and I think I liked it even better than the first. The first half of this book was fantastic, while the second half was merely very, very good. This is a must read series for any book lover, at least so far.

The third book in Bujold’s current fantasy series, I find that I like the final half of each book better than the first half. I think I’m not the target audience, a bit heavy on the romance side, but Bujold’s such a good writer that I keep on reading.

Still, I look forward to a new Miles book.