In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 27th Year, Week 11/52

Nine books this week - that is 21st to 28th October.

Three of them were a series that I'd read before, The Marianne Trilogy.  They're by my favouite author, Sheri Tepper and they're not overly long - less than 200 pages each.  Really, the three together are basically the same as one of her other novels, though they are all unique stories.  The first two books seem to follow on from one another, dealing with the same overarching problem, while the third is an adventure with the same characters.  I wonder if it was intended to be longer than a trilogy at one point?  Or intended to be two books, and then she had nother idea?

I also reread The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making and The Grl Who Ruled Fairyland - for a Little While.  The latter is a short story exploring the backstory of the main villain of the former.  It's a nice bit of semi-meta fiction; it's a fairytale set in a world that tries to tie together other fairytale tropes.  Slightly post-modernist, in the way that it's aware of other stories and that readers will also be aware of other stories and tries to go beyond that.

Feeders and Eaters, Being an Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabus and Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament were all graphic novels in the Gaiman HumbleBundle I've mentioned previously.  Heliogabus was the best of them though Outrageous Tales did cover many of the good bits of the Old Testament.

Finally, Dare Me is a book I first read several years ago.  It's a tale of obsession, set in the world of cheerleading; eating disorders, combined with cliques, combined with the drive to be a good athlete.  All very intense and claustraophobic.  Megan Abbott has a wandering yet sharp sentence style, which makes the book feel like you're always a little out of breath, trying to keep up.