Fair warning: I waited way too long to write these up, so I don’t know that these are going to be very coherent.

R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet, Quicksilver: amazing. I really can’t say anything about the plot without being spoilerific (and do not read a plot synopsis for the second book if you haven’t read the first!), but I will say that they’re ( Read more... )

• What are you currently reading?

Because I am sick and need comfort reading, I just picked up Pamela Dean's The Secret Country. It still makes me absurdly happy to have nice reprints of these, after the terrible time I had finding the third one when they were out of print (it took me literally years).

I just started Richard Hofstadter's Anti- ( Read more... )

• What are you currently reading?

Jessica Day George's Princess of the Silver Woods, sequel to Princess of the Midnight Ball and Princess of Glass (both of which I just reread), all very entertaining fairy tales retellings. Not McKinley, but still good. Also, there is much knitting!

• What did you recently finish reading?

Reread Mary Bard's The ( Read more... )

Whoops, I missed last week.

• What are you currently reading?

Brigid Brophy's King of a Rainy Country, a Virago I picked up somewhere. Also am about to start Balzac's Père Goriot.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Franny Billingsley's Chime, which I loved and will deal with at greater length in this month's Sirens reading post. Frances ( Read more... )

• What are you currently reading?

Elizabeth von Arnim's All the Dogs of My Life, a slight but charming memoir.

• What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished my nth reread of Mansfield Park, and I appreciate Fanny more every time I read it. I commented on my GoodReads review thusly: I think I empathized especially strongly with Fanny ( Read more... )

Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between: I got about halfway through, put it down for the night, and couldn’t be bothered to pick it up again the next day. Apparently Daughter of Smoke and Bone really is the only exception to my anti-angels and demons bias. But really, I just thought the demons were boring, and so were the heroine and hero ( Read more... )

(One of these I wrote up immediately after reading it; the others I didn’t. I think you can probably tell which are which.)

Vivian Vande Velde, Heir Apparent: Giannine is playing a VR fantasy game called “Heir Apparent”, and every time she loses (read, dies in the game), she has to go back and begin ahead. Unfortunately, outside forces have ( Read more... )

I liked doing this last week, so here it is again. Somehow this bypasses my anxious "must make booklog post perfect!" feelings which so often prevent me from posting anything.

• What are you currently reading?

Martha Wells's third book of the Raksura, The Siren Depths, which is just as solidly good as the first two. I'm so glad she's still ( Read more... )

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