More on books

My reading of Gallant was super fast and easy. I really liked the book but I wasn’t satisfied with the ending. Just left a bit too much unresolved and unanswered for me. It makes me wonder if there will be another story exploring this world. So I now need to finish Elena the Brave and review it by Friday. At the very least I will do a review and edit it to reflect completion later. As I was reading I noted mention of Kiev (Kyiv) being nearby in the story and so the folklore is closely connected, geographically, with current events.

I didn’t mention it before, but I am also reading a biography of Led Zepellin. I requested this almost a year ago on Netgalley and the publisher has still got it listed as pending, even though it was released back in November. The copy I am reading is an ebook through the library. It’s a rather hefty volume and I had renewed it once and reserved it again once. I will need to renew it again as I am not even halfway through it. One thing I don’t like about this book is the way it chronicled the development of Jimmy Page from his early days but the other three members are only mentioned as they join in and through a few references to earlier experiences later in the text. In any case, some of it has been quite enlightening, particularly in regards to the creative process of making albums. As for the other aspects of their lives, it’s pretty unsavoury. Not that this is any revelation as I remember hearing the stories of the band when I was growing up, albeit in rather less ugly detail.