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Reading, reading -- Wednesday, Wednesday. Not as much for the last six weeks as might be expected, given it includes a month of being unemployed.

But I did get to a lot of poetry, mostly from A Victorian Anthology (1837-1895) ed. Edmund Stedman and The English Poets ed. Thomas Ward (focused on the seventeenth century poems), but also random William Yeats (later poems) and Leigh Hunt (narrative poems). Hunt in particular deserves a better rep than he has.

Fictionwise, I reread the Immortals quartet, being Wild Magic, Wolf-Speaker, Emperor Mage, and The Realms of the Gods, by Tamora Pierce, which holds up moderately well, but not as well as Circle of Magic or Protector of the Small.

Currently, I'm in the process of reading the revised Exordium series by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge (I read the originals too), starting with The Phoenix in Flight and Ruler of Naught, and just started A Prison Unsought. Good stuff, especially if you like space opera, and definitely improved by the revision.

---L.

Subject quote from "Snow-Flakes," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Date: 11 May 2016 03:24 pm (UTC)

Date: 11 May 2016 04:05 pm (UTC)
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Circle of Magic was my fave of her series that I read.

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