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Reading, reading (and meming every once in a while):
Read: Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks - One of the better Culture novels, all told, though not a good entry to the series. There is a connection to an earlier Culture book, the identity of which is a bit spoilery. But it's interesting to compare such lookbacks as Look to Windward's to Consider Phlebas and The Hydrogen Sonata's to Excession.
Arabella, another reread of a Georgette Heyer I remembered nothing of -- and another that is pleasant enough mid-level Heyer. Give the hero +1 for being a social troll.
Reading: Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear - Steampunk in the wild west, with a 16-year-old prostitute for a narrator -- one with an engaging voice and a turn for phrases as vivid as a bottle-green cravat. Does less erasure of those disadvantaged by the imperialist bent behind steampunk tropes than all too many works. Or so far, anyway -- am ~2/3 through.
DNF: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell - I liked this, but found it painful. I mean, I'm two years older than the protagonists. I remember this stuff. It's not a historical novel to me. It's not exactly memoir, either, but enough is all too familiar to make this a not quick read for me -- and so it came due at library before I finished.
---L.
Subject quote from "Tony," Patty Griffin.
Read: Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks - One of the better Culture novels, all told, though not a good entry to the series. There is a connection to an earlier Culture book, the identity of which is a bit spoilery. But it's interesting to compare such lookbacks as Look to Windward's to Consider Phlebas and The Hydrogen Sonata's to Excession.
Arabella, another reread of a Georgette Heyer I remembered nothing of -- and another that is pleasant enough mid-level Heyer. Give the hero +1 for being a social troll.
Reading: Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear - Steampunk in the wild west, with a 16-year-old prostitute for a narrator -- one with an engaging voice and a turn for phrases as vivid as a bottle-green cravat. Does less erasure of those disadvantaged by the imperialist bent behind steampunk tropes than all too many works. Or so far, anyway -- am ~2/3 through.
DNF: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell - I liked this, but found it painful. I mean, I'm two years older than the protagonists. I remember this stuff. It's not a historical novel to me. It's not exactly memoir, either, but enough is all too familiar to make this a not quick read for me -- and so it came due at library before I finished.
---L.
Subject quote from "Tony," Patty Griffin.