LA's Updates en-US Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:03:36 -0700 60 LA's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg UserStatus1054612384 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:03:36 -0700 <![CDATA[ LA is 48% done with The Book That Held Her He ]]> The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence LA Reads is 48% done with <a href="/book/show/216247528-the-book-that-held-her-heart">The Book That Held Her Heart</a>. ]]> UserStatus1054612216 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:03:19 -0700 <![CDATA[ LA is 75% done with Gregor the Overlander ]]> Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins LA Reads is 75% done with <a href="/book/show/262430.Gregor_the_Overlander">Gregor the Overlander</a>. ]]> ReadStatus9363477719 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:27:56 -0700 <![CDATA[LA started reading 'The Book That Held Her Heart']]> /review/show/7282546245 The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence LA started reading The Book That Held Her Heart by Mark Lawrence
]]> Review6604039250 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:27:28 -0700 <![CDATA[LA added 'The Book That Broke the World']]> /review/show/6604039250 The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence LA gave 4 stars to The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2) by Mark Lawrence
The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

4.75 â­�

Second installment of The Library Trilogy.

Lawrence is utilizing the mechanism and the library and the ideas of how stories travel, manifest. Some authors will create a great idea, top notch and yet they only explore it so far as it allows them to tell the love story. If you can take away all aspects of fantasy out of the story and then it becomes a modern fiction, you are not writing fantasy. We don't have to worry about that with Mark Lawrence.

It's interesting that he's exploring interspecies relations. I know Ice Planet Barbarians got a whole lot of flack for that but he doesn't seem to be suffering the same fate. Dare I say, the alien smut walked so Mark Lawrence could run? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm just kidding. Octavia Butler explored amicable interspecies, reproduction thoroughly, decades ago.
I really enjoy the exercise of revenge, whether over an instant or lifetimes.

Overall, I don't know if I felt more distracted. Just go around or if I just wasn't as easily engaged, but that's the only reason I'm ticking off a quarter of a star. I think this is a fantastic read, I'll look forward to doing a reread once the whole trilogy comes out. ]]> ReadStatus9341427173 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:00:53 -0700 <![CDATA[LA started reading 'The Book That Broke the World']]> /review/show/6604039250 The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence LA started reading The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence
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Surprisingly good for one outside my preferred genre. A friend told me it was sunshine in a book and I agree. Low stakes, medium burn, medium 🌶�, well established characters.

The narrators were great. I will read another but hoping it is not too formulaic. That always gets me with the romances ]]> ReadStatus9335033906 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:52:01 -0700 <![CDATA[LA is currently reading 'Done and Dusted']]> /review/show/7506690952 Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage LA is currently reading Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
]]> Review5893348003 Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:29:54 -0700 <![CDATA[LA added 'The Book That Wouldn’t Burn']]> /review/show/5893348003 The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence LA gave 5 stars to The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy, #1) by Mark Lawrence
The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

He may be a favorite author with just one book!

Read this if you like thinks a bit Whovian, a bit of Timey whimy, wibbly wobbly. A book, not unlike Dr. Who that is creative, unique, exciting, and leaves an emotional crater in its wake.

Books can take you places you've never been, worlds you'll never see. But what if the library was its own vast and multi-layered world through space and time? In various stages of rise and decay, One thing is for certain this library is very particular. And the people in it are along for the ride.

Our two main characters meet in what I can only describe is the wood between worlds, a La C.s Lewis's famous series. That is if the wood between worlds was a dangerously volatile and chameleon-like place.

The biggest take away:
Perception is 9/10 of reality.

I'm enamored with this series. It's whimsical and unusual. I cannot predict what will happen next and I absolutely love concepts of space and time and particularly sentient establishments. It's refreshing to be less clever than the author. I'm not saying I'm particularly clever, more that many authors write predictably. ]]> ReadStatus9329014554 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:55:59 -0700 <![CDATA[LA is currently reading 'Gregor the Overlander']]> /review/show/7502514186 Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins LA is currently reading Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
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