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Reading, reading, who's got the reading? Well, I do, a little bit. Yays.
Completed:
The Martian, Andy Weir: xkcd pretty much nails it. It's interesting to watch the author go out of his way to limit the protagonist's human entanglements in order to focus on the survival story. Side-effect: no enough detail to back up his relationship with his crew, as depicted. Still, chomp.
In progress:
Am stalled on The Convenient Marriage, which makes it a likely DNF given it's coming due.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami -- reading it in translation, though from what I've poked at, he's not as hard to read in Japanese as you might expect.* Not very far in, but the debts that Haibane Renmei owe to it are indeed obvious -- though I suspect Murakami will take the same elements very different directions.
Clariel: The Lost Abhorson by Garth Nix -- reading it on paper, as part of a program to model reading Real BooksTM in front of The Toddler,** instead of always being on the phone. Also not very far in, so I don't have any evidence yet of my pet theory about who the title character will become, but definitely enjoying it so far.
* I've heard his prose style described as reading like it's been translated from English.
** It's not like TBD doesn't devour and redevour books all day but, yanno, reinforcement by example. Living with a chaotic bookmark thief adds to the challenge.
---L.
Subject quote from "Archaic Torso of Apollo," Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Stephen Mitchell.
Completed:
The Martian, Andy Weir: xkcd pretty much nails it. It's interesting to watch the author go out of his way to limit the protagonist's human entanglements in order to focus on the survival story. Side-effect: no enough detail to back up his relationship with his crew, as depicted. Still, chomp.
In progress:
Am stalled on The Convenient Marriage, which makes it a likely DNF given it's coming due.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami -- reading it in translation, though from what I've poked at, he's not as hard to read in Japanese as you might expect.* Not very far in, but the debts that Haibane Renmei owe to it are indeed obvious -- though I suspect Murakami will take the same elements very different directions.
Clariel: The Lost Abhorson by Garth Nix -- reading it on paper, as part of a program to model reading Real BooksTM in front of The Toddler,** instead of always being on the phone. Also not very far in, so I don't have any evidence yet of my pet theory about who the title character will become, but definitely enjoying it so far.
* I've heard his prose style described as reading like it's been translated from English.
** It's not like TBD doesn't devour and redevour books all day but, yanno, reinforcement by example. Living with a chaotic bookmark thief adds to the challenge.
---L.
Subject quote from "Archaic Torso of Apollo," Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Stephen Mitchell.