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larryhammerWednesday, and there has been reading betimes.
Read:
Ancillary Sword by Anne Leckie -- Good, but slightly disappointing in comparison to the ambitious first book. I was expecting the ending to encompass one more layer of story and reversal of plotting. Not to mention more Anaander Mianaais.
Trading in Danger, Marque and Reprisal, and (DNF) Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon -- I wanted undemanding space opera, and got it. The third book in the series didn't grab me, though, with its widened and so more diffuse focus.
The City of Dreadful Night by James Thompson, an umpteen-time reread of a guided tour of the geography of depression. Once again the statement that women and children hardly ever come to the City sticks in the craw, and once again the last third (excepting only the climactic description of Melancholia) lacks the power as what comes before, but still good stuff. Should be better known and read than it is.
Reading:
Clariel: The Lost Abhorson, just a little further.
---L.
Subject quote from "Mador of the Moor," James Hogg.
Read:
Ancillary Sword by Anne Leckie -- Good, but slightly disappointing in comparison to the ambitious first book. I was expecting the ending to encompass one more layer of story and reversal of plotting. Not to mention more Anaander Mianaais.
Trading in Danger, Marque and Reprisal, and (DNF) Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon -- I wanted undemanding space opera, and got it. The third book in the series didn't grab me, though, with its widened and so more diffuse focus.
The City of Dreadful Night by James Thompson, an umpteen-time reread of a guided tour of the geography of depression. Once again the statement that women and children hardly ever come to the City sticks in the craw, and once again the last third (excepting only the climactic description of Melancholia) lacks the power as what comes before, but still good stuff. Should be better known and read than it is.
Reading:
Clariel: The Lost Abhorson, just a little further.
---L.
Subject quote from "Mador of the Moor," James Hogg.