My Favorite Author
Jonathan Stroud is an amazing author. Specializing in fantastical writing, he combines humor, mystery, intrigue in a captivating fashion, not to mention giving the reader plenty of vocab words to look up each day. His books leave you fully satisfied, yet you want to keep reading more. I was so excited when I found today that there are more books!
I have only read his three books in the Bartimaeus Trilogy and absolutely loved them. I came across the first one, The Amulet of Samarkand, on CD in one of the SF Libraries. The books are similar in genre to the Harry Potter series, but I have to admit that I like this trilogy twice as much, if not thrice. They currently rank as my favorite books!
Wherefore, I was so excited today when I googled my favorite author and found his website. I had visited one of his other websites before, http://www.bartimaeustrilogy.com/, but hadn't come across his own yet, http://www.jonathanstroud.com/.
I was wicked excited to find out that he has three other books not in the series. I immediately looked them all up on the RI library system and all three are currently underway to our library!
When you start the Trilogy, and I implore you to do so quite soon, I suggest getting the first on 
audio CD. The narrator is fabulous and the humor and flow of the writing is vivid and fun to listen too. Plus, it helps to have a British accent as well as know how Stroud intended names, places, etc. to be pronounced.
audio CD. The narrator is fabulous and the humor and flow of the writing is vivid and fun to listen too. Plus, it helps to have a British accent as well as know how Stroud intended names, places, etc. to be pronounced.While surfing his site I saw that one of his other books, Buried Fire, had just been released in Germany and an except of the audio book was available online. I really like the German narrator!
I can't wait until my next trip to the Library!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 comments:
Just answer one question: Do you know any gargoyles by name?
Oh, and have you ever been or are you interested in becoming a wizard?
(If you answer yes to any of the above questions, I'm officially afraid of you. If you answer no, I might consider looking at those books.)
A1: No I don't know of any by name, but now I'll look it up on Wikipedia.
A2: The better question would be Are you/or have you been a wizard?
The books rock and my wife can give them an Amen too!
I have to say I agree with you though book two. I was ready to declare these books my favorite...and then he had to go and mess up #3. Biggest reading disappointment to date.
I think he is a troll not a wizard.
Who? not your sweet little brother I hope?
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