To start, good luck to everyone taking part in the BookTubeAThon 2012, and thanks to Raeleen and Ariel for organising this. I hope you’ll forgive my posting as normal text posts and not as YouTube video book reviews. Further to my last post, I’ve made a few changes to my book lineup. One of my favourite courses at university was my second year German literature course in which books of classic German literature were paired with more modern works. For example, we paired Kleist’s Penthesilea with Christa Wolf’s No Place on Earth which describes a meeting between Kleist and another author. I found this to be a particularly interesting way of generating thoughtful discussion. I would like to do the same for this year’s BookTubeAThon. For my first pairing I will be looking at Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (416 pages) and comparing it to Austenland (206 pages) by Shannon Hale. I will be listening to Pride and Prejudice in Audible format to complete the audiobook challenge as well a the classic challenge. Pride and Prejudice is a wonderfully witty take on the mores of Regency England and I look forward to seeing how Austenland compares. Can it match up…
For this week’s reading roundup I read Rick Riordan’s short story The Son of Sobek in which Percy Jackson from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series meets Carter Kane of the Kane Chronicles. It was a fun read, if nothing majorly exciting. I was disappointed that the enhanced ebook version with narration from author Rick Riordan was not available for Canadians – indeed, I purchased it on Kobo. It also contains a sneak peak at the fourth book in the Heroes of Olympus series, House of Hades, which I am really looking forward to. I also read The Companions by R.A. Salvatore, which I received as a free copy from Netgalley. I plan to write a full review of it later, so I will save my thoughts for then. Suffice it to say, I wish I’d discovered R.A. Salvatore much sooner. The final book I read/listened to was The Lost Colony, the fifth in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. This is a series I much prefer listening to on Audible, mainly because of Nathaniel Parker’s wonderful narration. His accent work and general excellent storytelling make this series a joy to listen to. Check out a sample. The Lost Colony…
To start, good luck to everyone taking part in the BookTubeAThon 2012, and thanks to Raeleen and Ariel for organising this. I hope you’ll forgive my posting as normal text posts and not as YouTube video book reviews. Further to my last post, I’ve made a few changes to my book lineup. One of my favourite courses at university was my second year German literature course in which books of classic German literature were paired with more modern works. For example, we paired Kleist’s Penthesilea with Christa Wolf’s No Place on Earth which describes a meeting between Kleist and another author. I found this to be a particularly interesting way of generating thoughtful discussion. I would like to do the same for this year’s BookTubeAThon. For my first pairing I will be looking at Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (416 pages) and comparing it to Austenland (206 pages) by Shannon Hale. I will be listening to Pride and Prejudice in Audible format to complete the audiobook challenge as well a the classic challenge. Pride and Prejudice is a wonderfully witty take on the mores of Regency England and I look forward to seeing how Austenland compares. Can it match up…
For this week’s reading roundup I read Rick Riordan’s short story The Son of Sobek in which Percy Jackson from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series meets Carter Kane of the Kane Chronicles. It was a fun read, if nothing majorly exciting. I was disappointed that the enhanced ebook version with narration from author Rick Riordan was not available for Canadians – indeed, I purchased it on Kobo. It also contains a sneak peak at the fourth book in the Heroes of Olympus series, House of Hades, which I am really looking forward to. I also read The Companions by R.A. Salvatore, which I received as a free copy from Netgalley. I plan to write a full review of it later, so I will save my thoughts for then. Suffice it to say, I wish I’d discovered R.A. Salvatore much sooner. The final book I read/listened to was The Lost Colony, the fifth in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. This is a series I much prefer listening to on Audible, mainly because of Nathaniel Parker’s wonderful narration. His accent work and general excellent storytelling make this series a joy to listen to. Check out a sample. The Lost Colony…