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It's a Wednesday, and I actually read something. Sweet. Meme-time.
Recently read: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer, a solid, entertaining mid-level Heyer, with siblings who are cross-dressing because Jacobite Rebellion. (There have been worth plots justified by the Jacobite Rebellion. Far, far worse.) Unusually for her, the title plays on multiple levels.
Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie, a solid, entertaining SF novel with a political thriller substrate, examining of the logic of imperialism and the nature of free will within it. This got attention for the linguistic experiment of rendering the narrator's gender-neutral pronouns as "she," but that's hardly the most interesting aspect. I've put a library hold on Ancillary Sword, and I will be deeply disappointed if the third book in the trilogy isn't called Ancillary Mercy.
Currently reading: Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, a middle-grade contemporary fantasy that's not grabbing me as I'd expect given several story elements (comics-reading girl, superpowered squirrel, bad poetry), and Mahôka Kôkô no Rettôsei v14 by Tsutomu Satô, the first part of a two-volume light novel, so I expect I'll be disappointed with where the story stops -- in general, I've not been thrilled with the arc of our hero's second year of high school anyway.
DNF: Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh -- was two-thirds through and running out of steam when it came due at the library with no renew option.
---L.
Subject quote from "Amie," Pure Prairie League.
Recently read: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer, a solid, entertaining mid-level Heyer, with siblings who are cross-dressing because Jacobite Rebellion. (There have been worth plots justified by the Jacobite Rebellion. Far, far worse.) Unusually for her, the title plays on multiple levels.
Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie, a solid, entertaining SF novel with a political thriller substrate, examining of the logic of imperialism and the nature of free will within it. This got attention for the linguistic experiment of rendering the narrator's gender-neutral pronouns as "she," but that's hardly the most interesting aspect. I've put a library hold on Ancillary Sword, and I will be deeply disappointed if the third book in the trilogy isn't called Ancillary Mercy.
Currently reading: Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, a middle-grade contemporary fantasy that's not grabbing me as I'd expect given several story elements (comics-reading girl, superpowered squirrel, bad poetry), and Mahôka Kôkô no Rettôsei v14 by Tsutomu Satô, the first part of a two-volume light novel, so I expect I'll be disappointed with where the story stops -- in general, I've not been thrilled with the arc of our hero's second year of high school anyway.
DNF: Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh -- was two-thirds through and running out of steam when it came due at the library with no renew option.
---L.
Subject quote from "Amie," Pure Prairie League.