What are you reading Wednesday
Feb. 20th, 2013 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishWhat are you reading?
I've made it about two-thirds through Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child. I am doing a lot of nodding and saying "yes, exactly" as I read this, which suggests it's good and relevant. Then a lot of what's there falls out of my head five minutes later, which suggests even more strongly that it's good and relevant, in ways that my brain is refusing to think about because they're scary/painful. I think I may need to reread this fairly soon after finishing it.
What did you recently finish reading?
Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams. Mid-eighties cyberpunk, indebted in equal parts to Neuromancer and Zelazny's Damnation Alley. Fantastic if you're into that sort of thing. (I am.) Also, JMF's Web of Angels, a pre-Neuromancer cyberpunk novel. I think Hardwired may be the better book; it has certainly aged better, in both tech and storytelling. Web is not without its charms, though.
What do you think you’ll read next?
The books I have with me are Tristan Taormino's Opening Up and WJW's Voice of the Whirlwind (100-years-later sequel to Hardwired), so most likely one or both of those.
I've made it about two-thirds through Alice Miller's The Drama of the Gifted Child. I am doing a lot of nodding and saying "yes, exactly" as I read this, which suggests it's good and relevant. Then a lot of what's there falls out of my head five minutes later, which suggests even more strongly that it's good and relevant, in ways that my brain is refusing to think about because they're scary/painful. I think I may need to reread this fairly soon after finishing it.
What did you recently finish reading?
Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams. Mid-eighties cyberpunk, indebted in equal parts to Neuromancer and Zelazny's Damnation Alley. Fantastic if you're into that sort of thing. (I am.) Also, JMF's Web of Angels, a pre-Neuromancer cyberpunk novel. I think Hardwired may be the better book; it has certainly aged better, in both tech and storytelling. Web is not without its charms, though.
What do you think you’ll read next?
The books I have with me are Tristan Taormino's Opening Up and WJW's Voice of the Whirlwind (100-years-later sequel to Hardwired), so most likely one or both of those.