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eleanorjaneSo I gave up doing the Wednesday reading meme after weeks and weeks of "um, all I read this week was fanfic, please don't judge me" delays, because I just wasn't reading.
However! New Job has left me with lunchtimes and breaks to occupy, my iPad mini is stuffed full of iBooks, and there's no wifi to be had. So I've been reading. :)
In the last couple of weeks I've ploughed through three of the four (so far) Rivers of London books by Ben Aaronovitch, and I have loved them. I mean, I really wanted to just sit down and read ALL OF THEM AT ONCE as soon as I got home from work on the first day I started reading them, but I've been forcing myself not to do that so I have them to enjoy at work. I have enough other things to entertain me at home, after all; I don't need to use up the best thing about my work day.
They're really great books, is what I'm saying. I probably wouldn't have done more than dip into the first one had I not rememberedmusesfool commending them in a recentish post, but I'm so glad I did. They're set in London, in a world where magic exists but is hidden from the common man. The main character is PC Peter Grant, a black London copper, and reading it feels like watching a slightly AU episode of The Bill, which is no bad thing. It's dry and funny and I've had to restrain myself from laughing my head off in the tearoom, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. They're the kind of book that you want to recommend to everyone you know -- except in my case I'm not sure my dad would appreciate the mystery side of the stories, my mother doesn't like fantasy, and almost no-one else I know in RL reads any more.
So instead, I recommend all of them unto you, since I know you lot read. ;) Two thumbs up from me.
However! New Job has left me with lunchtimes and breaks to occupy, my iPad mini is stuffed full of iBooks, and there's no wifi to be had. So I've been reading. :)
In the last couple of weeks I've ploughed through three of the four (so far) Rivers of London books by Ben Aaronovitch, and I have loved them. I mean, I really wanted to just sit down and read ALL OF THEM AT ONCE as soon as I got home from work on the first day I started reading them, but I've been forcing myself not to do that so I have them to enjoy at work. I have enough other things to entertain me at home, after all; I don't need to use up the best thing about my work day.
They're really great books, is what I'm saying. I probably wouldn't have done more than dip into the first one had I not remembered
musesfool commending them in a recentish post, but I'm so glad I did. They're set in London, in a world where magic exists but is hidden from the common man. The main character is PC Peter Grant, a black London copper, and reading it feels like watching a slightly AU episode of The Bill, which is no bad thing. It's dry and funny and I've had to restrain myself from laughing my head off in the tearoom, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. They're the kind of book that you want to recommend to everyone you know -- except in my case I'm not sure my dad would appreciate the mystery side of the stories, my mother doesn't like fantasy, and almost no-one else I know in RL reads any more.So instead, I recommend all of them unto you, since I know you lot read. ;) Two thumbs up from me.