23rd October

23^rd October

“Quick, you must come with me,” she said. “You’re in great danger!”

“Why?”

“Because I will kill you if you don’t” Sorcery

I have taken a break from Dune books, after 4 in as many weeks, I am rather saturated with it all, and it’s unfortunate that the books are progressively less interesting.

So I have read two Terry Pratchet books in the past week to help re-kindle my love of reading back. For those who don’t know, he is a fantasy writer from England who manages to write an amazing number of very funny books, and while they are often quick reads, there is usually some subtle (or not so subtle) point to each book. And they make me laugh without fail.

I am now getting my teeth into something all together different, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914. Another part of a series, this time in 4 parts, but this is a paper copy (thanks Jason) and parts 2 and 3 aren’t available and part 4 hasn’t been translated into English yet.

In case you hadn’t guessed, it covers only 1 month in 1914, all 622 pages of the book! I don’t seem to read much historical fiction, so it will be a nice change, and the guy was a Nobel Prize winner, so it must be pretty well written.