Stuff I've been Reading - October

Looks like a full month since the last post. Which means you've missed a trip to London to see parks and palaces, a trip to Felixstowe to see a fort and, worryingly, me agreeing with the Daily Mail - it was only a theatre review, but I'm worried that that's how the drag you in. First you agree thst Groan Ups was funny, then you find yourself voting for Farage and buying Royal Wedding plates.

Anyway...

John Wyndham - The Chrysalids

Matt Coyne - Dummy

William Morris - News from Nowhere

The Wyndham book had been on the list for a couple of years. And, now that I've read it, I'm not sure why it was recommended. The whole thing seemed a bit forced, a disjointed non-story loosely contrived to make a point that I didn't quite understand. 

Speaking of which, News from Nowhere. Long term readers may remember me being scornful of Utopian novels. News from Nowhere is Utopian. It spends all it's time world building and being smug and exactly none of it's time being fun to read. 

Unlike Dummy by Man vs Baby. Which was fun to read. At one point I found myself vibrating with suppressed laughter. You don't get that in Utopian Novels.