January Booklist

[eattheolives]

Of note: fully half the books I read in January were audiobooks.

1. At Home, Bill Bryson

It's just so nice to hear Bryson read this own books.

2. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, James RuncieI keep thinking this series was written in or close to the time period it's in - 1950s or 60s - and then being a little befuddled when I'm reminded

Comments

[katharhino]

I enjoyed the show, but I have this feeling that reading Poldark would irritate me beyond belief.

[kiwiria]

I totally agree with you on Bill Bryson. I heard "A Walk in the Woods" narrated by him a couple of years back, and absolutely adored it.

A shame you didn't care for "Time and Time Again". The funny thing is that I fully understand and agree with all your complaints... I just loved it regardless ;)

Which twist didn't you like? Feel free to shoot me a PM here or on Facebook if it's too spoilerific for the comments.

[eattheolives]

I think it's okay to say it here (I doubt anyone's coming back to read this post at this point anyway :)): making the female professor suddenly turn bad. It gave me whiplash! Her deviousness in coming along I could believe, but then the sudden "Oh, by the way, we killed your family on purpose" was just too much. Now, it *may* be that I was just an inattentive reader, but I didn't see anything that foreshadowed that at all, and it really threw me for a loop - she'd been one of my favorite parts of the book before that.

[kiwiria]

Yeah, that did seem a bit much. It was tragic enough that they died just as he was hoping they might reconcile, but the fact that it was deliberate... so sad :(

I'd started disliking her already before that was revealed though, and couldn't quite forgive her deviousness in coming along (although I agree that it was believable), so I might already have been primed to think ill of her, and it therefore didn't bother me as much.