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Tuesday reading
TBR stack: 240 (due to pre-Sirens trip to Powell's).
• What did you recently finish reading?
I think I'll have to pick and choose here, since it's been three weeks since I remembered to do this.
Seanan McGuire, Velveteen vs. the Multiverse: outstanding, even better than the first installment. I especially liked the bits from other POVs, and the ( Read more... ) -
Sirens: The Underground Influence of Georgette Heyer
I had a hard time keeping up, so forgive any errors! This was a great, energetic panel, and I was really glad I happened to have brought The Masqueraders with me so that I could immediately start rereading it.
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Tuesday reading
TBR stack: 224.
• What did you recently finish reading?
James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes, which I picked up because Daniel Abraham is half of Corey (the other half is Ty Franck, of whom I wot not) and I really liked his Long Price Quartet. I didn't like this nearly so much, alas; it was fairly readable space opera, but my enjoyment was ( Read more... ) -
Tuesday reading
I'm trying to find a day other than Wednesday for weekly reading posts. Maybe Tuesday, maybe Thursday? Who knows?
TBR stack: 228.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Sarah Rees Brennan's Untold, which was just as good as the first book: excellently fearless and snarky heroine, good continuation of plot (bit of a cliffhanger, but enough ( Read more... ) -
5 random things
1) No book post this week due to lack of time, but I will say that I thought that Divergent had the most utterly silly and poorly worked out dystopia idea EVAR ( Read more... ) -
Thursday reading
TBR stack: 232.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Mary Renault's Funeral Games, which, yeah, so not The Mask of Apollo or The Persian Boy. I'm glad I read it, but I doubt I'll return to it as often as some of her others. Then I read David Sweetman's biography of Renault, which I thought was quite good: sympathetic but objective (other than ( Read more... ) -
Thursday reading
(Wednesdays are just not a good day for me, so I'm trying to do Thursdays instead.)
TBR stack: 234
• What did you recently finish reading?
Rae Carson's Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy -- the third was a very satisfying conclusion. I liked how much agency the heroine has, and how much agency and power women in general have.
Seanan McGuire's ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday reading
TBR stack: 238 (though now I'm up to 7 acquired this year but unread).
Goodness, I've been terrible about this lately. Who would have thought it would actually be harder to have time to do it in the summer? Aaaanyway....
• What did you recently finish reading?
Two Gerald Durrells, definitely comfort rereads: A Bevy of Beasts, about his time as a ( Read more... ) -
AKICILJ/DW
Help me out with book recommendations, pls, o internets? A friend emailed me recently and said, "My friend's husband also doesn't read much, but she's recently figured out that the books he does like are about language. He read Snow Crash recently and really liked it. He's a localization specialist so language is really his thing. Any suggestions ( Read more... ) -
Sirens
I just registered for Sirens! I was waffling (because of money and other things), but the schedule already looks so enticing that I couldn't resist. Who else is going?
I guess this means I should get back to trying to read more of the books on the reading list. I did just start rereading Swordspoint. Maybe I'll do a poll later and lazily get you ( Read more... )