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What Are You Reading Wednesday
Dec. 11th, 2019 06:57 pmCurrently Reading:
Fiction: Zen Cho, 'The True Queen'. Cute, not as enthralling as the previous but easy going.
Lit Mag: Barely into the Spring Meanjin
Poetry: Paradise Lost on hold again.
Academic: None.
Other non-fiction: Currently nothing, unless you count 'Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life', which I am considering DNF'ing, despite having paid for it and carted it through multiple countries.
Recently Finished:
I have not read very many things lately.
Molly Martin, Castles and Space in Le Morte Darthur: Review copy for Parergon. Loved it.
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Took me ages to finish this, probably because it was the only one of the trilogy where I could remember how it ended, and thus my sense of 'omg what next' was tempered by 'there is clearly a lot of terrible to get through before THAT'.
In awe of the immense level-up in plot structuring skills between the Fitz books and these.
The High Price Of Heaven - A Book About The Enemies Of Pleasure and Freedom by David Marr
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
David Marr is a bit slipshod, especially with his premodern history and theology (no, Christianity did not bring the soul/body distinction 'out of Judea', ffs), but damn, he does a fine line in polemic. The worst of it is how... really the only times when I read a chapter (on censorship, or education, or any of it) and thought 'ah, we have definitely changed', we had changed for the worse. The exception would be anti-discrimination law, but - *waves at the religious discrimination bill*.
DNF: R.F. Kuang, 'The Dragon Republic'. Just didn't have the available brain space for it. It's obviously going to get into the issues with the protag's conduct in the last book, which is good, but... also, too much.
Online Fiction
Courtney Maum, Patience, introduced by Halimah Marcus in Electric Lit. Magazine title "Married with Kids: One Star, Difficult To Assemble".
Up Next:
I am definitely not going to finish my TBR pile before I leave. I will buy the Summer Meanjin, but not prioritise it; I think 'From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage' or Carskens' 'The Colony' might win the priority contest.
Music Notes:
I have purchased another Grace Petrie album and am particularly enjoying The Vegan Song:
Fiction: Zen Cho, 'The True Queen'. Cute, not as enthralling as the previous but easy going.
Lit Mag: Barely into the Spring Meanjin
Poetry: Paradise Lost on hold again.
Academic: None.
Other non-fiction: Currently nothing, unless you count 'Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life', which I am considering DNF'ing, despite having paid for it and carted it through multiple countries.
Recently Finished:
I have not read very many things lately.
Molly Martin, Castles and Space in Le Morte Darthur: Review copy for Parergon. Loved it.
Ship of Destiny by Robin HobbMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Took me ages to finish this, probably because it was the only one of the trilogy where I could remember how it ended, and thus my sense of 'omg what next' was tempered by 'there is clearly a lot of terrible to get through before THAT'.
In awe of the immense level-up in plot structuring skills between the Fitz books and these.
The High Price Of Heaven - A Book About The Enemies Of Pleasure and Freedom by David MarrMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
David Marr is a bit slipshod, especially with his premodern history and theology (no, Christianity did not bring the soul/body distinction 'out of Judea', ffs), but damn, he does a fine line in polemic. The worst of it is how... really the only times when I read a chapter (on censorship, or education, or any of it) and thought 'ah, we have definitely changed', we had changed for the worse. The exception would be anti-discrimination law, but - *waves at the religious discrimination bill*.
DNF: R.F. Kuang, 'The Dragon Republic'. Just didn't have the available brain space for it. It's obviously going to get into the issues with the protag's conduct in the last book, which is good, but... also, too much.
Online Fiction
Courtney Maum, Patience, introduced by Halimah Marcus in Electric Lit. Magazine title "Married with Kids: One Star, Difficult To Assemble".
Up Next:
I am definitely not going to finish my TBR pile before I leave. I will buy the Summer Meanjin, but not prioritise it; I think 'From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage' or Carskens' 'The Colony' might win the priority contest.
Music Notes:
I have purchased another Grace Petrie album and am particularly enjoying The Vegan Song: