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larryhammerReading day. Or reading reporting day. Or readmeme day. Or something.
Finished:
Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer, and was underwhelmed by the abrupt ending. Not top-rank Heyer. (Slap-slap-kiss is not my favorite trope.)
The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey, because I wanted undemanding fantasy adventure, and mostly got that. I may even read another book with these characters.
And a lot of Richard Scarry, several times over: Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, The Best First Book Ever, The Best Lowly Worm Book Ever, The Adventures of Lowly Worm, What Do People Do All Day?, et cetera, et cetera. (I've been leaving off books read to TBD, but these are meatier than most.)
In progress:
Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffrey, because I wanted undemanding science fiction adventure, but the frequency of skin-crawly sexual politics is not really compatible with "undemanding." Dunno if I want to continue the series. Or finish the book.
Also, still, Eon (technically, in the sense of I haven't returned it to the library yet) and Life and Society in the Hittite World (really, in the sense of a dozen pages during a nap last week).
---L.
Subject quote from "Regret," New Order.
Finished:
Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer, and was underwhelmed by the abrupt ending. Not top-rank Heyer. (Slap-slap-kiss is not my favorite trope.)
The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey, because I wanted undemanding fantasy adventure, and mostly got that. I may even read another book with these characters.
And a lot of Richard Scarry, several times over: Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, The Best First Book Ever, The Best Lowly Worm Book Ever, The Adventures of Lowly Worm, What Do People Do All Day?, et cetera, et cetera. (I've been leaving off books read to TBD, but these are meatier than most.)
In progress:
Freedom's Landing by Anne McCaffrey, because I wanted undemanding science fiction adventure, but the frequency of skin-crawly sexual politics is not really compatible with "undemanding." Dunno if I want to continue the series. Or finish the book.
Also, still, Eon (technically, in the sense of I haven't returned it to the library yet) and Life and Society in the Hittite World (really, in the sense of a dozen pages during a nap last week).
---L.
Subject quote from "Regret," New Order.
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Date: 28 October 2015 05:55 pm (UTC)They were fun because there was so much going on each page, but Richard Scarry didn't get any love from me.
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Date: 28 October 2015 08:30 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 29 October 2015 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 October 2015 02:57 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 28 October 2015 07:34 pm (UTC)May I ask how so? I read almost infinite McCaffrey in middle and high school; I am apprehensive about re-reading a lot of it precisely because of the gender issues/sexual politics. I feel like I must have read Freedom's Landing, because infinite McCaffrey, but can remember nothing about it.
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Date: 28 October 2015 08:33 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 28 October 2015 09:07 pm (UTC)Ah! I didn't read this one, but it's the novel that followed from "The Thorns of Barevi," right? About which I can remember nothing except a sex scene with the power dynamic you describe. I can see a whole novel of that being hard to take.
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Date: 28 October 2015 11:33 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 29 October 2015 02:58 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 9 November 2015 03:19 pm (UTC)---L.