still wednesday, still bookday
Mar. 12th, 2014 10:15 pmBlergh day.
What are you currently reading?
Not a damned thing. It's an odd feeling.
What did you recently finish reading?
In the last month or so...
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. First reread in at least a decade. I believe I first read this book in late high school. It's one of those where I keep getting more out of it every time I read it.
The Merchant Princes (trilogy), by Charles Stross. As noted earlier, worldwalking economic/political thrillers. Good stuff; possibly my favorite of Charlie's work. They were perfect for a vacation read.
Ash: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle. It's... interesting. I keep mentally comparing it to The Dragon Waiting, the only other late-15th-century alternate-history I've read, which isn't fair at all. (Though now I wonder where Lost Burgundy is in the world of TDW. *checks Draco Concordans* Of course, Burgundy is the westernmost province of the Empire, and it's ruled by Dimi's father Cosmas. No remnants of Charles Temeraire here, alas.) Vicious and brutish and sometimes unexpectedly kind, and reasonably action-packed. At times I grew bored with the Ash bits and wanted to hurry up and get back to the weird present-day stuff. Worth reading, possibly worth rereading.
I am not entirely sure I like Mary Gentle's work. I loved loved loved Golden Witchbreed, hated Ancient Light an equal and opposite amount, and was mostly bored by Ilario. She writes well, just... at oblique angles to my preferences, I think.
What do you think you'll read next?
Maybe a reread of the Steerswoman books. Maybe something off the official To Be Read Shelf. Maybe Susan Palwick's Mending the Moon.
What are you currently reading?
Not a damned thing. It's an odd feeling.
What did you recently finish reading?
In the last month or so...
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. First reread in at least a decade. I believe I first read this book in late high school. It's one of those where I keep getting more out of it every time I read it.
The Merchant Princes (trilogy), by Charles Stross. As noted earlier, worldwalking economic/political thrillers. Good stuff; possibly my favorite of Charlie's work. They were perfect for a vacation read.
Ash: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle. It's... interesting. I keep mentally comparing it to The Dragon Waiting, the only other late-15th-century alternate-history I've read, which isn't fair at all. (Though now I wonder where Lost Burgundy is in the world of TDW. *checks Draco Concordans* Of course, Burgundy is the westernmost province of the Empire, and it's ruled by Dimi's father Cosmas. No remnants of Charles Temeraire here, alas.) Vicious and brutish and sometimes unexpectedly kind, and reasonably action-packed. At times I grew bored with the Ash bits and wanted to hurry up and get back to the weird present-day stuff. Worth reading, possibly worth rereading.
I am not entirely sure I like Mary Gentle's work. I loved loved loved Golden Witchbreed, hated Ancient Light an equal and opposite amount, and was mostly bored by Ilario. She writes well, just... at oblique angles to my preferences, I think.
What do you think you'll read next?
Maybe a reread of the Steerswoman books. Maybe something off the official To Be Read Shelf. Maybe Susan Palwick's Mending the Moon.