What are you reading Wednesday
Dec. 12th, 2012 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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sartorias, on Book View Cafe.
What are you reading?
I'm currently about forty pages into N.K. Jemisin's The Shadowed Sun. It and the first book (The Killing Moon) have been slow going and I'm not sure why; good characters, fantastic worldbuilding, fine prose. There's just something there that's slowing me down. Might be the need to actively process everything that's going on, because so much is unfamiliar. Regardless I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
I'm also reading chunks of Diaspora, a hard-SF RPG built on the Fate engine. I... am not sure what I think of Fate as described in Diaspora. I'm having a hard time getting my head around the use of Aspects and Fate points. It's possible that story-games aren't my thing, at least not as presented here. I'm also not thrilled by the various combat mini-games. On the other hand, the collaborative world-building of a number of linked star systems seems like a lot of fun.
What did you recently finish reading?
Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear, because semilocal J-- was kind enough to loan me her copy when I mentioned that all the Vancouver library copies were reserved. In sharp contrast to the Jemisin, I breezed through this in the space of about a week. It's very good epic fantasy. About halfway through I realised the word I was looking for was "melodrama," of which it has its fair share-- but I'm willing to accept that because the main conceit is that it's the main character telling his life story to a chronicler. I'm very interested to see where Rothfuss goes with the third book, and even more interested to see what he does next.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Either the last volume of Zelazny's Collected Stories or Nancy Kress's Steal Across the Sky, both of which have been at the top of my TBR shelf for months now. Or maybe something else.
sartorias, on Book View Cafe.What are you reading?
I'm currently about forty pages into N.K. Jemisin's The Shadowed Sun. It and the first book (The Killing Moon) have been slow going and I'm not sure why; good characters, fantastic worldbuilding, fine prose. There's just something there that's slowing me down. Might be the need to actively process everything that's going on, because so much is unfamiliar. Regardless I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
I'm also reading chunks of Diaspora, a hard-SF RPG built on the Fate engine. I... am not sure what I think of Fate as described in Diaspora. I'm having a hard time getting my head around the use of Aspects and Fate points. It's possible that story-games aren't my thing, at least not as presented here. I'm also not thrilled by the various combat mini-games. On the other hand, the collaborative world-building of a number of linked star systems seems like a lot of fun.
What did you recently finish reading?
Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear, because semilocal J-- was kind enough to loan me her copy when I mentioned that all the Vancouver library copies were reserved. In sharp contrast to the Jemisin, I breezed through this in the space of about a week. It's very good epic fantasy. About halfway through I realised the word I was looking for was "melodrama," of which it has its fair share-- but I'm willing to accept that because the main conceit is that it's the main character telling his life story to a chronicler. I'm very interested to see where Rothfuss goes with the third book, and even more interested to see what he does next.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Either the last volume of Zelazny's Collected Stories or Nancy Kress's Steal Across the Sky, both of which have been at the top of my TBR shelf for months now. Or maybe something else.
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Date: 2012-12-15 06:44 am (UTC)Nothing (on paper) at the moment.
What did you recently finish reading?
Phantom Over Vietnam, a first-person account of flying the F-4 Phantom during the Vietnam War.
What do you think you’ll read next?
Either JS&MN (as recently mentioned) or Jim Gorant's The Lost Dogs, about the dogs rescued from Michael Vick, most likely.
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Date: 2012-12-15 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-16 04:14 am (UTC)On the other hand, I may start with Centered Riding and Centered Riding 2, two books about horsemanship skills.