This week has been a quiet week in terms of reading. It’s been the start of the new TV season which might have had in impact… (on that topic, I’m watching Forever and Gotham as new shows.) I finished Robert Galbraith (AKA J.K. Rowling’s) second mystery novel, The Silkworm and you can expect my full review next week. Sneak preview: I liked it. I’m also continuing with the audiobook of Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. It’s not grabbing me in the way that The Silkworm did, but it is very intriguing and I am enjoying it. Also being listened to is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I’m just at the wedding night scene. Yum. Especially when you add Mr. Sam Heughan into the equation… For once, I didn’t add any books to my library this week! Incredible, I know. I will make up for it next month, trust me… I have been waiting for the next book in Anne Robillard’s A.N.G.E. series, Tribulare, to hit Kobo. The hard copies have been out for a while, but this series is only now being released in electronic format. I see it’s available on prologuenumerique.ca and archambault.ca, and even amazon.ca but I have…
In my reading roundup for 2nd August I read Mark Lawrence’s King of Thorns, which I read on Kindle and listened to on Audible. As I mentioned last week, I’d been convinced to give this series another try despite not really being engaged in the first book, and I’m very glad I did. I think it helped that I both read and listened to it. James Clamp is competent as a narrator (check out a sample), but I suspect I perhaps missed a lot in the first book (which I only listened to on Audible) due to my dislike of the main character. Yes, Jorg is still a bloodthirsty, vengeful character, but he is maturing and is capable of thinking of others from time to time. The concept of the “memory box” and what I means for Jorg as well as the part it plays in the story is very well done. I gave King of Thorns four stars out of five. This is an improvement on the three stars I gave the first book Prince of Thorns. Perhaps Emperor of Thorns will make five stars. I also was fascinated by the references to our own world. I’m not…