Schedule should probably get back to normal once the semester starts again, and then there will be Monday posts, probably. I didn't get to the library yesterday, and so here is a Tuesday post.
Two books today. I'm trying hard not to bring a bunch more books into the house, since I got a pile for Christmas, and I have a pile from before Christmas, and it's all a little overwhelming.
Charles DeLint -
The Painted Boy
With the two DeLint I got last week and this one, I think next week may be DeLint Week.
Scott Westerfeld -
Behemoth
I loved the first book of these -
Leviathan![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=just00c-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1416971742)
- they are a steam-punky alt-histy World War One series. Points in their favor - 1) lovely struggle between English genetic modification and Germanic mechanical things. 2) World War One is a favorite period for me, historically. 3) They are very well written. 4) They are illustrated! The decision to illustrate a book that is not for little kids is apparently a really big deal; Westerfeld wrote about it
here. (The image seems to be broken, but the essay is below the broken image, and it's worth a look.) Best of all, the coverleaf is a fantastic allegorical map of Europe - Westerfeld wrote about THAT
here - which is really worth looking at for its own sake. I suspect that when this series is done (I'm expecting a trilogy, the third book,
Goliath, is due out in October of 2011) I may actually buy them. They're that good.
So it's not a children's book? Because I thought it was; probably because of the illustrations.
ReplyDeleteI think it's filed under Young Adult - I'd say it's aimed solidly at teens. It's not a children's book, though - I don't think I'd give it to anyone under 8, at the youngest.
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