Weekend Reading Roundup (12 September 2017)

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Comments

[fred_mouse]

A bit more of Anais Nin's "In favour of the sensitive man", and because I now have given myself permission to start new books on Sundays, regardless of the number I already have open, I started 'ICO' by Miyuke Miyabe, which turns out to be a novelisation of a playstation game, but beautiful to read even though I have no idea of the game.

[lapinlunaire]

Ico is amazing, I had no idea there was a book (and a good one at that).

[fred_mouse]

Having finished it - the book was lovely, and did some really interesting things with world building, but it was a bit of an odd one to read for a number of reasons, including the pacing and the rather abrupt change in POV character part way through.

[nanila]

'ICO' by Miyuke Miyabe, which turns out to be a novelisation of a playstation game

This is a fascinating premise. I will add it to the very long "check it out" list

[fred_mouse]

It is pretty, but the plot beats are kind of in the wrong place. I'm not sure how much this is because it was a puzzle game, and how much is non-English writer. I've reached a point where the viewpoint has changed, and it is a bit hard to make the switch.

[fred_mouse]

Having finished reading it, it might well make a really good read-aloud story for the right age group kid, because it does work in little chunks, and the descriptions are beautiful, so it would be good for stimulating imagination.