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Jul. 29th, 2020 05:20 pmWhat are you reading?
A slow reread of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, for the first time since it came out in ... 2004? That sounds right, clear memories of lugging it to theatre classes (and giving a copy to my RenLit prof for xmas). It is a delicious book, one that requires savouring. I don't think I'd be capable of reading it quickly.
Ebook, reread of Sherwood Smith's Lhind the Spy, because comfort-fluff was required and the Lhind books deliver.
What did you just finish reading?
Elizabeth Bear's space opera Ancestral Night. It was inexplicably slow going at first. Then it became all-too-explicably slow going when for around a hundred and twenty pages the protagonist first had no one to talk to but herself, and then engaged in socio-philosophical debates with the captured antagonist. It picked up again once more characters showed up, but that middle slog... ugh.
What do you think you'll read next?
I'm four chapters into JS&MN, it's hard to conceive of "next."
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shadowkat, have you ever:
( old school memeish )
A slow reread of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, for the first time since it came out in ... 2004? That sounds right, clear memories of lugging it to theatre classes (and giving a copy to my RenLit prof for xmas). It is a delicious book, one that requires savouring. I don't think I'd be capable of reading it quickly.
Ebook, reread of Sherwood Smith's Lhind the Spy, because comfort-fluff was required and the Lhind books deliver.
What did you just finish reading?
Elizabeth Bear's space opera Ancestral Night. It was inexplicably slow going at first. Then it became all-too-explicably slow going when for around a hundred and twenty pages the protagonist first had no one to talk to but herself, and then engaged in socio-philosophical debates with the captured antagonist. It picked up again once more characters showed up, but that middle slog... ugh.
What do you think you'll read next?
I'm four chapters into JS&MN, it's hard to conceive of "next."
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shadowkat, have you ever:( old school memeish )