tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post8069983754339171431..comments2024-03-28T11:17:43.586+00:00Comments on Read-warbler: North FaceCathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-75416075071488829592017-03-19T10:45:54.224+00:002017-03-19T10:45:54.224+00:00Pat: I expect Devon Library catalogue does have it...Pat: I expect Devon Library catalogue does have it, but not my town library. I just need to reserve it but I have so many other books to read... lol! Exactly... they really ought to have what we want, when we want it. LOL!<br /><br />Margaret: Those are the first two books of her Theseus series I think? I'd like to read those as well as her Alexander trilogy. Not sure why but I would expect them to be a bit different to this standalone book.<br /><br />Thankyou for saying you don't think it's my intelligence. The book did leave me feeling somewhat lacking... but only bits of it. Really it was a 3.5 on Goodreads for me. I do wish GR allowed us to give half marks.<br /><br />I bet it was petrifying being stuck halfway up a rock face! And having read this book I now know quite a lot more about how that feels. I can't stand heights at all so I can only imagine and shudder.<br /><br />Judith: How interesting that your mother disliked Renault's writing for this very reason. Not just me then but I'm not going to let it put me off as I quite like a challenge. I hope you can find it as it is well worth a read and I would be interested to hear what you think. <br />Cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371069000185280668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-74765924398603414812017-03-19T00:04:49.684+00:002017-03-19T00:04:49.684+00:00Your description of this book has made me tremendo...Your description of this book has made me tremendously curious about it. In fact, I'm going to try to find it and read it. And, in my reading lifetime, sometimes I think Mary Renault can make things more DENSE and in-understandable than they need be. I remember my mother, way, way back, disliking Renault's writing for this reason. And she was a reading nut and librarian. But in my youth and twenties I just so happened to read several of Renault's books that I liked, so this title sounds interesting to say the least. Thank you! Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06435116453270981662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-6761447322847693722017-03-18T14:43:08.494+00:002017-03-18T14:43:08.494+00:00Interesting - I read two of Mary Renault's boo...Interesting - I read two of Mary Renault's books in my 20s or 30s - The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, loved them! <br /><br />I really dislike it when I find the writing is so unclear that I can't work out what happened or what the author meant - you're not alone! I very much doubt that it was your lack of intelligence. More likely it's the writing that's at fault for being unclear - or maybe it was meant to be ambiguous, which is also annoying.<br /><br />In my 20s I did do a bit of rock climbing (one of my husband's many sporting activities that I was useless at) and did get stuck half-way up a climb - petrifying!BooksPleasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721650104596705715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3958492963483272678.post-17482457161648377712017-03-18T11:38:02.895+00:002017-03-18T11:38:02.895+00:00hmmm, disappointment is not what we want when we r...hmmm, disappointment is not what we want when we read. I wonder why the library doesn't have her series that you want to read?? I know they can't have everything but come on.. they are supposed to have what "we" want to read!lol I hope the next read is better!DesLilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02582481597658080464noreply@blogger.com