I will be posting only at Dreamwidth (same username) in future and have turned off cross-posting from there. I will continue to read here, as not everyone has migrated over there yet.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Bendis and Maleev, Daredevil Ultimate Collection, vol. 2: I don't love the art, which I find so dark as to be unreadable sometimes, but the storyline is compelling.

G. Willow Wilson et al., Ms. Marvel Vol. 6: Civil War II: love, love, love this series.

Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (rereads): ( Read more... )

This has been a hell of a depressing month, but I'm trying to think positively and not to dwell. Therefore, some good things:

My favorite yearly fundraiser, Worldbuilders!

New Megan Whalen Turner book, Thick as Thieves! (Seriously, I may have emitted a small squee when I saw this listed on Amazon.)

( my favorite picture from my October UK trip )

• What did you recently finish reading?

Peter S. Beagle, Summerlong: new Beagle! This is lovely and quiet and contemplative, a tale of an old myth wandering into the modern world. Another Goodreads reviewer commented that this might have worked better in a shorter format, and I would agree with that; the pacing was very slow, and I guessed early ( Read more... )

• What did you recently finish reading?

Kate Elliott, Court of Fives (reread), Poisoned Blade: second book as good as the first, and I already long for the third.

Jonathan Bate, Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare: definitely not a replacement for a more usual biography, as it's arranged thematically (around the seven ( Read more... )

Do you ever have that thing where it's been ages since you posted, and so every time you think about posting, it feels overwhelming even though you know you're overthinking it. Yeah, me too. I kind of want to post about the TV adaptation of The Magicians, but until that happens, have a meme instead (via several people).

What I've read from 60 ( Read more... )

"I am full of holy joy and free booze," said Cobbler. "I feel moved to sing. It is very wrong to resist an impulse to sing; to hold back a natural evacuation of joy is as injurious as to hold back any other natural issue. It makes a man spiritually costive, and plugs him up with hard, caked, thwarted merriment. This, in the course of time, poisons ( Read more... )

No reviews, just a list, but feel free to ask about any you're curious about.

Favorite fiction:
- Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
- Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown
- James S. A. Corey, Nemesis Games
- Kate Elliott, Black Wolves
- Kate Elliott, Court of Fives
- Tana French, read all five, hard to pick a favorite
- Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy- ( Read more... )

• What did you recently finish reading?

Jon Spence, Becoming Jane Austen: kind of meh. I was interested in some of the connections he draws between Jane's fiction and her brother Henry and cousin Eliza, but I absolutely fail to believe that Jane inserted names from Tom Jones in all of her books as a remembrance of Tom Lefroy. Also there was rather ( Read more... )

• What did you recently finish reading?

Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown: I really loved this, and it probably will go on my Hugo nominations list. Funny, good period feel, Regency worldbuilding rather reminiscent of Susanna Clarke, really good examination of bigotry and colonialism.

Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Lady of Magick: The first book was a 3.5; ( Read more... )