books update
Oct. 20th, 2004 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthI finished Order of the Phoenix. Gosh, I had forgotten so much of the story! I think I've only read it two or three times before. So I plan to re-read that, and probably also the Goblet of Fire, pretty soon.
But when I bought the Harry Potters, my Mom bought a whole stack of books I need to read, too. I interrupted reading OotP to read the latest (paperback) Mitchell&Markby by Ann Granger, I'm right now reading the latest (paperback) Fortune de France by Robert Merle and I have I think three Fidelmas by Peter Tremayne waiting for me. And that doesn't include the two non-fiction books I'm reading right now, the one on American history and the Bowie biography.
Fortune de France is a series of French historical novels (that is, they are about French history and they are originally written in French, I'm not actually reading them in French). The problem is that there are 13 novels in all, and they have been translated in a rather strange order: volumes 1 to 3, then 7 to 9, then 4 and 10, then 12, now 5, 6 is only published as hardcover so far, and whether the 13th volume will actually be the last or in between the two sets of six I don't know. Actually, I was under the impression that it were only 12 novels, not thirteen.
Anyway, so while the last time I read something from the series, I was reading about Cardinal Richelieu and his contemporaries, I am now quite some time earlier in history, in the fights between King Henry the somethingst and the Duke of Navarra. Getting complicated to keep track of what's going on.
And I have discovered a serious problem: Spoilers. Hopefully, the next HP will be published soon. But of course, it will take some time after the publishing of the English version for the German to be available. And even longer for the English paperback. Which means that I have to get the English hardcover as soon as it is published, because otherwise I won't know what's happening at the same time as all my friends on LJ will know, which might cause problems when reading their LJs.
OK, so it might be a weird problem.
Oh, speaking of spoilers, I found a plot mistake in OotP I missed all the other times I read it.
Harry's wand is broken when he and Hermione lead Umbridge in the Forbidden Forest. But later at the ministry, he has his wand again. I've read the two or three chapters twice to make sure I didn't miss anything, but there is no explanation. This makes me happy somehow, because it means that even people like JKR can make mistakes.
But when I bought the Harry Potters, my Mom bought a whole stack of books I need to read, too. I interrupted reading OotP to read the latest (paperback) Mitchell&Markby by Ann Granger, I'm right now reading the latest (paperback) Fortune de France by Robert Merle and I have I think three Fidelmas by Peter Tremayne waiting for me. And that doesn't include the two non-fiction books I'm reading right now, the one on American history and the Bowie biography.
Fortune de France is a series of French historical novels (that is, they are about French history and they are originally written in French, I'm not actually reading them in French). The problem is that there are 13 novels in all, and they have been translated in a rather strange order: volumes 1 to 3, then 7 to 9, then 4 and 10, then 12, now 5, 6 is only published as hardcover so far, and whether the 13th volume will actually be the last or in between the two sets of six I don't know. Actually, I was under the impression that it were only 12 novels, not thirteen.
Anyway, so while the last time I read something from the series, I was reading about Cardinal Richelieu and his contemporaries, I am now quite some time earlier in history, in the fights between King Henry the somethingst and the Duke of Navarra. Getting complicated to keep track of what's going on.
And I have discovered a serious problem: Spoilers. Hopefully, the next HP will be published soon. But of course, it will take some time after the publishing of the English version for the German to be available. And even longer for the English paperback. Which means that I have to get the English hardcover as soon as it is published, because otherwise I won't know what's happening at the same time as all my friends on LJ will know, which might cause problems when reading their LJs.
OK, so it might be a weird problem.
Oh, speaking of spoilers, I found a plot mistake in OotP I missed all the other times I read it.
Harry's wand is broken when he and Hermione lead Umbridge in the Forbidden Forest. But later at the ministry, he has his wand again. I've read the two or three chapters twice to make sure I didn't miss anything, but there is no explanation. This makes me happy somehow, because it means that even people like JKR can make mistakes.
