Still not dead

[eclectician]

Writing reviews calms me down. I hope.

This might be a good time to comment that I think the general tenor of my life affects how receptive I am to fiction - less how I perceive certain books, and more how ready I am to read and enjoy fiction in general.

[Rats and] the Ruling Sea seemed to me to drift a little in comparison to its superb

Comments

[lyonesse]

ha, if you wanted to read the werewolf novel around now i'd let you, since i could blame dislike on your indubitably-high stress levels ;)

[scorchus]

I'm still unable to get into Rats and the Ruling Sea -- it's not just you having problems with the beginning.