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Dec. 19th, 2019
The reading meme
Dec. 19th, 2019 10:34 amHere's a quick Reading Wednesday-No-Thursday-Actually post, because I should be doing useful things and I don't want to! (Perhaps I need to make more tea first. More tea is often the answer.)
What I've Read Recently
The last book I finished was A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland, which I enjoyed a lot. Deliciously rich and detailed worldbuilding (though I'm a bit iffy about so many names directly from our world's languages appearing in a complete fantasy world), lots of things about storytelling and narrators and the power of stories for the good and the bad, everyone is super queer. I really look forward to getting my hands on the second book, especially as that'll feature my favourite character as the narrator.
What I'm Reading Now
A lot of things! I'm rereading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet for the Xth (maybe 4th?) time because why not, and that books keeps making me very happy and comforted. Otherwise, all my library holds insisted on coming at the same time, so I'm a bit swamped, but I've finally started Gideon the Ninth so that I have time to read it before I have to take it back to the library. I'm not far into it enough to say what I think of it yet. It seems entertaining but maybe has more reanimated corpses than I strictly like? I really want to get back to Empress of Forever which I enjoy a lot but which I requires more of my brain than the others do, which is why it's been slow. I've recently been reading some Finnish poetry to enjoy things in my own language as well.
What I'm going to read next
Well, the library books with a definite due date to them include The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri, and Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. I'm not convinced I can read all of them in the time I've got left, but I can't decide which one to take back to the library without reading, because I super much want to read all of them. Wish me luck, or something. Anyway, once that situation is done, we'll see, but I might want to tackle some of my own books for a change, and I have a bunch of stuff I want to reread, like the Imperial Radch books and In the Vanishers' Palace. Oh, and there are lots of history books I want to get down to. I've realized I've spent too much time in the 19th century Europe and would really like to read more about other historical periods.
So, trying to keep up with new, recently published stuff is turning out difficult for me. Maybe I should go back to being late for each and every book and fandom? That's usually more my style. Then again, I've discovered some fabulous books by keeping up with the current releases, so ah, it's hard to know what to do.
Okay, I'm going to stop procrastinating for real now.
What I've Read Recently
The last book I finished was A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland, which I enjoyed a lot. Deliciously rich and detailed worldbuilding (though I'm a bit iffy about so many names directly from our world's languages appearing in a complete fantasy world), lots of things about storytelling and narrators and the power of stories for the good and the bad, everyone is super queer. I really look forward to getting my hands on the second book, especially as that'll feature my favourite character as the narrator.
What I'm Reading Now
A lot of things! I'm rereading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet for the Xth (maybe 4th?) time because why not, and that books keeps making me very happy and comforted. Otherwise, all my library holds insisted on coming at the same time, so I'm a bit swamped, but I've finally started Gideon the Ninth so that I have time to read it before I have to take it back to the library. I'm not far into it enough to say what I think of it yet. It seems entertaining but maybe has more reanimated corpses than I strictly like? I really want to get back to Empress of Forever which I enjoy a lot but which I requires more of my brain than the others do, which is why it's been slow. I've recently been reading some Finnish poetry to enjoy things in my own language as well.
What I'm going to read next
Well, the library books with a definite due date to them include The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri, and Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. I'm not convinced I can read all of them in the time I've got left, but I can't decide which one to take back to the library without reading, because I super much want to read all of them. Wish me luck, or something. Anyway, once that situation is done, we'll see, but I might want to tackle some of my own books for a change, and I have a bunch of stuff I want to reread, like the Imperial Radch books and In the Vanishers' Palace. Oh, and there are lots of history books I want to get down to. I've realized I've spent too much time in the 19th century Europe and would really like to read more about other historical periods.
So, trying to keep up with new, recently published stuff is turning out difficult for me. Maybe I should go back to being late for each and every book and fandom? That's usually more my style. Then again, I've discovered some fabulous books by keeping up with the current releases, so ah, it's hard to know what to do.
Okay, I'm going to stop procrastinating for real now.