xmas is for bookery
Dec. 25th, 2024 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishGood lord, it's been a minute. Happy xmas, all.
What are you reading now?
The Cloud Roads, first of Martha Wells's Books of the Raksura. Second reread. Found family and polyamorous bird/lizard people, in a landscape filled with magic, and people (of wildly varying kinds) getting by in the ruins of much older civilizations. I love Moon's prickly loner-ness, and how grumpy Stone is, and, oh, just all the characters. I don't think I picked these up first onthanate's recommendation exactly but I associate her with "I should read Martha Wells," and that of course led to Murderbot, etc. All good things.
What did you just finish reading?
Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower, first reread. Fantasy Hamlet, crossed with "point-of-view of a rock". It might be my favourite of Leckie's books.
I reread the first five Craft novels relatively recently, too. They hold up; Four Roads Cross remains my favourite, because Tara Abernathy is such a fun character. I'm looking forward to the concluding tetrology.
I gave up on A Tale Of Two Cities about sixty percent in. This might be the point where it starts to get Really Interesting but so far it has been two-dimensional (at best) characters setting up for some Plot to Happen, in ways that do not convince me that there is any Plot -to- Happen. The narrative voice occasionally amuses me but more often grates on me. Dickens, it seems, is Not My Thing and I am okay with that.
Also gave up on rereading Elric after about a page and a half of ridiculously florid prose. Those can be filed in the Good Teenage Memories mental box.
What do you think you'll read next?
Probably carrying on with the Raksura but I might switch gears, I guess. There's a new Susanna Clarke novella I shall acquire in a few weeks if I don't get it for xmas. I'm also vaguely looking for poetry by Gerry Cambridge; his Processional at the Winter Solstice feels lovely in my head.
What are you reading now?
The Cloud Roads, first of Martha Wells's Books of the Raksura. Second reread. Found family and polyamorous bird/lizard people, in a landscape filled with magic, and people (of wildly varying kinds) getting by in the ruins of much older civilizations. I love Moon's prickly loner-ness, and how grumpy Stone is, and, oh, just all the characters. I don't think I picked these up first on
thanate's recommendation exactly but I associate her with "I should read Martha Wells," and that of course led to Murderbot, etc. All good things.What did you just finish reading?
Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower, first reread. Fantasy Hamlet, crossed with "point-of-view of a rock". It might be my favourite of Leckie's books.
I reread the first five Craft novels relatively recently, too. They hold up; Four Roads Cross remains my favourite, because Tara Abernathy is such a fun character. I'm looking forward to the concluding tetrology.
I gave up on A Tale Of Two Cities about sixty percent in. This might be the point where it starts to get Really Interesting but so far it has been two-dimensional (at best) characters setting up for some Plot to Happen, in ways that do not convince me that there is any Plot -to- Happen. The narrative voice occasionally amuses me but more often grates on me. Dickens, it seems, is Not My Thing and I am okay with that.
Also gave up on rereading Elric after about a page and a half of ridiculously florid prose. Those can be filed in the Good Teenage Memories mental box.
What do you think you'll read next?
Probably carrying on with the Raksura but I might switch gears, I guess. There's a new Susanna Clarke novella I shall acquire in a few weeks if I don't get it for xmas. I'm also vaguely looking for poetry by Gerry Cambridge; his Processional at the Winter Solstice feels lovely in my head.
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Date: 2024-12-26 05:54 am (UTC)That looks adorable. Thank you. :)