Friday Reads: Sri Lanka, Star Trek, Stilton Cheesewright

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Күн бұрын

Some reviews of a woman's prize-nominated book set in Sri Lanka, my first #booktrek novel of the season, and a classic Jeeves & Wooster. A little haul at the beginning as usual.
00:00 general waffle and book haul
04:08 Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
13:21 Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
17:08 Tehanu & audiobooks
17:59 Imzadi by Peter David & Star Trek watching
#fridayreads

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@RaynorReadsStuff Ай бұрын

Love the variety of the books you read. PG Wodehouse is one of my favourite authors. I’ve been watching the original Star Trek from the beginning too. Great wrap up. So many great events this summer 😊

@AaronReadABook Ай бұрын

Is the original series your favourite?

@revenantreads Ай бұрын

I’m glad to see you enjoyed Imzadi! Boudicca looks interesting.

@AaronReadABook Ай бұрын

Imzadi was great fun. I think you would like Dreaming the Eagle, she's obviously done a lot of research and it feels very authentic somehow.

@YourTrueShelf Ай бұрын

Stilton Cheeseweight has to be one of the best ever character names! Enjoyed hearing your thoughts on Brotherless Night. Yay for the buddy read 😊 I haven't read any of the other Narnia books either - let us know how they are as I might read them with the children.

@AaronReadABook Ай бұрын

Wodehouse is the king of character names. I am curious about the Narnia ones now as they seem to get mixed reactions, but I did see someone say the first one is their favourite today.

@jf8559 2 ай бұрын

Hi Aaron! I’ve started Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle and got a couple of hundred pages into it and then set it aside for unknown reasons. You’ve inspired me to pick it up again, so thank you for that.

@AaronReadABook 2 ай бұрын

Sarah and I are both enjoying it so far! It feels like a very realistic depiction of the time, although so little is known it's hard to judge.

@savagereads Ай бұрын

My daughter binge read the Narnia books over Christmas and loved them! I am so glad you got Strange Sally Diamond! I can't wait to see what you think of it when you get to it 😊

@AaronReadABook Ай бұрын

Glad kids are still reading them! I might have to binge them in shorty september.

@ReadBecca Ай бұрын

I love Magicians Nephew, Silver Chair and Voyage of the Dawn Treader! Tip top for me is Magicians Nephew. The BBC adaptations as well are just delightful, Tom Baker was brilliant in Silver Chair. All takes a bit of ignoring the subtext now though.

@AaronReadABook Ай бұрын

Yeah I saw you say magicians was your favourite. I remember watching the lion the witch and the wardrobe at Christmas a lot and it was dark to me, with Aslan bleeding everywhere. That and Watership Down were always on during Christmas 😂 didn't know they adapted the others.

@ReadBecca Ай бұрын

I don't think they did them all, but definitely Silver Chair and Voyage of the Dawn Treader were in addition to LWW, and those are much better stories.

@erinh7450 2 ай бұрын

Love all the Narnias, read them as a kid and twice as an adult (only one of those times with my own kids 😉) I've heard other people say what you did about Brotherless Night - that it would've been better as non-fiction, so you're not alone. I read and really loved both Maali Almeida and A Passage North, with both have to do with the Sri Lankan conflict.

@AaronReadABook 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad someone likes the other Narnia books 😂

@erinh7450 2 ай бұрын

@@AaronReadABook I think I like them all from nostalgia, but I'd say Horse and His Boy could be skipped (it's standalone and not that great a story) and The Last Battle leans heavy into the religious allegory in a way I'm not fond of, and he does Susan wrong. I really love The Magician's Nephew, which comes first chronologically but was written second-to-last, I believe. There's controversy to read them in publication or chronologic order - I prefer chronologic, but there are strong opinions the other way too. 😂

@KatJack-vl8xj 2 ай бұрын

I've not read Brotherless Night but your analysis of its structure was very convincing. I'm surprised the author didn't run into copyright infringement of the true stories she basically "stole" from.

@AaronReadABook 2 ай бұрын

Well she has changed the names, plus pretty much every story is about people being murdered.

@RovingRedhead Ай бұрын

Like me , you read a variety of genres, so it is interesting to see what books you will talk about :) I do love Star Trek, but i somehow cannot read it :(

@AaronReadABook Ай бұрын

Star Trek books are a recent thing for me, I never saw the appeal in tv related books but now I actually really like the idea because you already have the world building in place. I guess it does make it stand out more when someone says something out of character though.

@RovingRedhead Ай бұрын

@@AaronReadABook You have a point in that indeed!

@josmith5992 2 ай бұрын

It does seem as though most people love Brotherless Night but I did have a friend right when it came out who was underwhelmed. If you want a good non fiction about the Sri Lankan civically war, This Divided Island by Samanth Subramanian is really good. I think I only ever read the first in the Narnia series, even as a child I wasn’t that into fantasy 😉

@AaronReadABook 2 ай бұрын

I do want to read a non fiction, I'll check it out. I read the first one so many times it fell apart, that and Adrian Mole. What did you read as a kid?

@josmith5992 2 ай бұрын

Oh I loved Adrian Mole! Also Judy Blume, Nancy Drew and Enid Blyton, Tintin, and some adventures about two brothers I can’t remember the name of.

@booksimnotreading 2 ай бұрын

Aside from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, I don’t like the rest of the series and the last book I found absolutely horrifying. I got rid of all of the books except The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I finished it just before I started my Booktube channel. So glad I didn’t start off my channel ranting about a beloved series. Happy reading! 💛

@AaronReadABook 2 ай бұрын

Well, if I hate them too at least they look nice all together on my shelf 😁