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I got the Kindle edition of this yesterday, I'm planning to start it over the weekend after I finish book 3 of 1Q84.
Anyone else started it yet? If so, look forward to sharing feelings about it.
Unfortunately mine is a Chrissy prezzie so I will be late to the party.
In the meantime I am reading "Life, Libert & the Pursuit of Sausage Rolls", "Heartless" and "Ginger Geezer". The latter is taking quite a while as I keep putting it down to start something else.
I am also rereading TN4, then will reread TN5 & 6 in preparation for "Dark Reading Matter" next Spring.
I got lost halfway through volume 1 of 1Q84. The alternating chapters sent me into a spin, but it intrigued me enough that I will return to it at some later time.
I've read and finished SoTQB now. I enjoyed it more than the first book in the series. To me, the world building feels a bit forced early on, and some of the explanation n the footnotes is defintely aimed at a young readership. About a third of the way through I felt it was dragging,then I suddenly got in sync with the writing and the plot, and zipped through the rest of the book without pausing.
I think I'll reread Dragonslayer soon, I can't remember much of it.
I have just finished re reading Dragonslayer and while it is aimed at a 'juvenile' audience it should be made a 'reading out aloud' textbook as it flows well and is interesting enough to keep the reader involved.
How many books can you comfortably read out aloud in an orotorian type voice?
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> How many books can you comfortably read out aloud
> in an orotorian type voice?
i usually have three books on the go at any given time but find that my eyes can only focus on one at a time making 1 the maximum that I can read out out aloud.
However I can multi-task, although not to the female level of complexity.