I have never read the His Dark Materials series but I really enjoyed the insight I got through this podcast :) A fantasy series that I that I would really recommend, is The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. It's a YA urban fantasy, and I reread it this year after a loooong time and had quite a lot of fun. What you said about the age group intended audience here was something that was definitely relevant in that reading experience as well though - reminding myself that I wasn't really the main target audience anymore made me find some humor in some of the teenagerness of it all. But overall the series crafts a really cool magical world and introduces some great characters and moving friendships, so I'd probably still reread it at 50 :)
Thanks for the comment! Thats such a good idea, to just find humour in the outrageous youth of it all :) Thanks for the recommendation, I will put this on the list of books/series to look out for when i am shopping 🙏
Thank you for reading this trilogy!! Yeah, book 3 not my fav. (I've reread this the least) but still admire what it tries to do. I always felt this book is an extended essay masquerading as a novel! Have you read any Dostoyevsky?? 'Crime & Punishment' or 'The Idiot'? or maybe John Le Carre's Smiley Novels?
Thankyou for the recommendation :) That is such an interesting way to look at book 3 - as an extended essay!! I have read Crime and Punishment but it is time for a re-read for sure and i've never read the Idiot or any of John Le Carre's works, so they are all going on the list!! :)
I have never read the His Dark Materials series but I really enjoyed the insight I got through this podcast :)
A fantasy series that I that I would really recommend, is The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. It's a YA urban fantasy, and I reread it this year after a loooong time and had quite a lot of fun. What you said about the age group intended audience here was something that was definitely relevant in that reading experience as well though - reminding myself that I wasn't really the main target audience anymore made me find some humor in some of the teenagerness of it all. But overall the series crafts a really cool magical world and introduces some great characters and moving friendships, so I'd probably still reread it at 50 :)
Thanks for the comment! Thats such a good idea, to just find humour in the outrageous youth of it all :)
Thanks for the recommendation, I will put this on the list of books/series to look out for when i am shopping 🙏
Thank you for reading this trilogy!!
Yeah, book 3 not my fav. (I've reread this the least) but still admire what it tries to do. I always felt this book is an extended essay masquerading as a novel!
Have you read any Dostoyevsky?? 'Crime & Punishment' or 'The Idiot'?
or maybe John Le Carre's Smiley Novels?
Thankyou for the recommendation :) That is such an interesting way to look at book 3 - as an extended essay!!
I have read Crime and Punishment but it is time for a re-read for sure and i've never read the Idiot or any of John Le Carre's works, so they are all going on the list!! :)