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Sep. 29th, 2021 10:19 amWhat are you reading?
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin. It turned up in my mailbox a few weeks ago and I'm just now getting to it. Enjoyable thus far but I have zero recollection of having read it before.
I was reminded of its existence by an email from Subterranean saying that they would in fact be offering Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy short-fiction collection, which was part of my motivation for picking up their nice editions of the trilogy. I'm glad I did. These are my favourite SubPress editions so far, next to De umbrarum regni novem portis.
Ebook, just starting on Sourcery, of which I have only slightly more than zero recollection. And I'm also moving a bit on Sandman: World's End, which I'm enjoying but not as much as Fables & Reflections.
What did you just finish reading?
Katherine Addison's Witness for the Dead, a cosy murder mystery set in the world of The Goblin Emperor. It's not Goblin Emperor, and the fierce kindness of that book is less front-and-center, but it's still present. Recommended, and I'd be happy to read more fantasy-world cosy-mysteries too.
And I bailed on Tessa Gratton's King-Lear-as-fantasy-doorstopper The Queens of Innis Lear. Like its source material, it is a bit slow going and also chock-full of interesting characters who are to a person horrible people, with the arguable exception of the Cordelia-analogue and her new husband the king of NotFrance, and I do not want to immerse myself in that. I want to be clear that this is a failing in me and not the book: it's a really good example of the kind of thing it is! It is just very much Not For Me Right Now.
What do you think you'll read next?
I feel like I'm busy enough at the moment. But I've got the new edition of The Scholars of Night, of which I will at least read Charlie Stross's introduction and then we'll see if I can manage to put it down, and also the finale of Stross's Merchant Princes series, and plenty of hard-copy books waiting on my shelves too.
... and a friend just reminded me that it's nearly October, and it's been far too long, and I should do a one-a-day reread of Zelazny's A Night In The Lonesome October. So maybe that.
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin. It turned up in my mailbox a few weeks ago and I'm just now getting to it. Enjoyable thus far but I have zero recollection of having read it before.
I was reminded of its existence by an email from Subterranean saying that they would in fact be offering Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy short-fiction collection, which was part of my motivation for picking up their nice editions of the trilogy. I'm glad I did. These are my favourite SubPress editions so far, next to De umbrarum regni novem portis.
Ebook, just starting on Sourcery, of which I have only slightly more than zero recollection. And I'm also moving a bit on Sandman: World's End, which I'm enjoying but not as much as Fables & Reflections.
What did you just finish reading?
Katherine Addison's Witness for the Dead, a cosy murder mystery set in the world of The Goblin Emperor. It's not Goblin Emperor, and the fierce kindness of that book is less front-and-center, but it's still present. Recommended, and I'd be happy to read more fantasy-world cosy-mysteries too.
And I bailed on Tessa Gratton's King-Lear-as-fantasy-doorstopper The Queens of Innis Lear. Like its source material, it is a bit slow going and also chock-full of interesting characters who are to a person horrible people, with the arguable exception of the Cordelia-analogue and her new husband the king of NotFrance, and I do not want to immerse myself in that. I want to be clear that this is a failing in me and not the book: it's a really good example of the kind of thing it is! It is just very much Not For Me Right Now.
What do you think you'll read next?
I feel like I'm busy enough at the moment. But I've got the new edition of The Scholars of Night, of which I will at least read Charlie Stross's introduction and then we'll see if I can manage to put it down, and also the finale of Stross's Merchant Princes series, and plenty of hard-copy books waiting on my shelves too.
... and a friend just reminded me that it's nearly October, and it's been far too long, and I should do a one-a-day reread of Zelazny's A Night In The Lonesome October. So maybe that.