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Wednesday book meme
Feb. 6th, 2013 11:13 pmOkay, I keep trying to keep track on LJ of what I've read, and I keep failing. So here's another try. Maybe other people doing it will remind me to keep it up.
What I've read lately:
Rivers of London (aka Midnight Riot), Moon Over Soho, and Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch. Really enjoyed these urban fantasies in a modern-day London where the magic is hidden but starting to become more visible. I'm looking forward to the fourth one (which is due out sometime this year, I think).
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (the first of the Harry Dresden novels) because I wanted more of the same sort of thing. I enjoyed it enough to start the second one.
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, on Jo Walton's recommendation. The iPhone book for when I have a few minutes to read, especially waiting in line or waiting for the computer to stop crunching away. I did not enjoy it as much as she did, though I do see the charm. But too much of it felt like a town populated by people like Miss Bates, even though they're treated with affection.
Becoming a Tiger, by Susan McCarthy. A potato chip book, about how animals learn the things they need to be animals in the wild -- and how they can be taught entirely irrelevant things that researchers are interested in. From![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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The Xenogenesis trilogy (aka Lilith's Brood) -- Dawn, Imago, and Adulthood Rites. My previous bathroom books, in the read-through-the-unread paperbacks project. I only owned the first one, but the Hennepin County Library system had the other two in ebook format, and I read them on my old unconnected iPhone 3.
Hellspark, by Janet Kagan. The kitchen book that I recently finished. The nth reread of a book I love.
Sprig Muslin, by Georgette Heyer. Also an iPhone book. I bought all of Heyer's historical romances as ebooks when they were on sale for $2 each a couple of years ago, and have been rereading my way through them alphabetically by title. As you can see, I'm getting close to the end. This was frothy fluff, enjoyable but with a remarkably silly plot.
What I'm reading:
Retreat, Hell! as an audiobook. This is my current automobile and exercise book. It's the tenth and last of the Corps books by WEB Griffin (yes, I already listened to the previous nine). I've enjoyed these (I have the occasional low taste for military fiction), but I don't really approve the jump from mid-WWII to the Korean War.
Figures of Earth, by James Branch Cabell. My current bathroom book, in the read-through-the-unread paperbacks project. I hadn't read any Cabell before, and I'm enjoying it mildly. It's written in a heroic fairy tale mode. I don't know if I'll keep on with the other Cabell books I own; at the moment I'm about a quarter of the way through the book.
Battle Cry, by Leon Uris. My current kitchen book, which means I'll be at it for a long time. Pat WINOLJ recently returned it just as I finished Hellspark, and I had forgotten that, and thought I lost it somehow. The kitchen book really only gets read while I'm waiting for the microwave or the espresso maker or the toaster to finish its thing, so it's almost always a reread.
Sylvester, Or The Wicked Uncle, by Georgette Heyer. The current iPhone book. The female protagonist is an author, and is thoroughly cowed by her (admittedly awful)stepmother, both of which are unusual in Heyer heroines.
The Winter Prince, by Elizabeth Wein. When I was in Uncle Hugo's, I had some credit to spend, and having just read Code Name Verity, I picked up a couple of her older novels. This one is from 1993, and is Arthurian, with Mordred as the viewpoint character. I'm only a few pages in.
Fool Moon, by Jim Butcher. The second Harry Dresden book, which I started on my iPad when the restaurant I was at turned out to be too dark to read a conventional book comfortably.
What I plan to read:
Red Embers, by Dorothy Lyons. I loved her horse books when I was young, and discovered that there were a few I'd never read, and requested them from interlibrary loan. This one just arrived, so it gets to jump the queue, but I haven't actually started it yet, because of the aforementioned dark restaurant.
Doris Egan's Ivory trilogy. I got the three-novel omnibus from the library via interlibrary loan, and only made it through the first two books before I had to return the book -- ILL books aren't renewable. I found an affordable used copy for sale online, and it recently arrived, so that's probably next in the queue. It's thick enough that it doesn't travel well, though. It'd be a great candidate for an ebook version.
What I've read lately:
Rivers of London (aka Midnight Riot), Moon Over Soho, and Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch. Really enjoyed these urban fantasies in a modern-day London where the magic is hidden but starting to become more visible. I'm looking forward to the fourth one (which is due out sometime this year, I think).
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (the first of the Harry Dresden novels) because I wanted more of the same sort of thing. I enjoyed it enough to start the second one.
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, on Jo Walton's recommendation. The iPhone book for when I have a few minutes to read, especially waiting in line or waiting for the computer to stop crunching away. I did not enjoy it as much as she did, though I do see the charm. But too much of it felt like a town populated by people like Miss Bates, even though they're treated with affection.
Becoming a Tiger, by Susan McCarthy. A potato chip book, about how animals learn the things they need to be animals in the wild -- and how they can be taught entirely irrelevant things that researchers are interested in. From
guppiecat.The Xenogenesis trilogy (aka Lilith's Brood) -- Dawn, Imago, and Adulthood Rites. My previous bathroom books, in the read-through-the-unread paperbacks project. I only owned the first one, but the Hennepin County Library system had the other two in ebook format, and I read them on my old unconnected iPhone 3.
Hellspark, by Janet Kagan. The kitchen book that I recently finished. The nth reread of a book I love.
Sprig Muslin, by Georgette Heyer. Also an iPhone book. I bought all of Heyer's historical romances as ebooks when they were on sale for $2 each a couple of years ago, and have been rereading my way through them alphabetically by title. As you can see, I'm getting close to the end. This was frothy fluff, enjoyable but with a remarkably silly plot.
What I'm reading:
Retreat, Hell! as an audiobook. This is my current automobile and exercise book. It's the tenth and last of the Corps books by WEB Griffin (yes, I already listened to the previous nine). I've enjoyed these (I have the occasional low taste for military fiction), but I don't really approve the jump from mid-WWII to the Korean War.
Figures of Earth, by James Branch Cabell. My current bathroom book, in the read-through-the-unread paperbacks project. I hadn't read any Cabell before, and I'm enjoying it mildly. It's written in a heroic fairy tale mode. I don't know if I'll keep on with the other Cabell books I own; at the moment I'm about a quarter of the way through the book.
Battle Cry, by Leon Uris. My current kitchen book, which means I'll be at it for a long time. Pat WINOLJ recently returned it just as I finished Hellspark, and I had forgotten that, and thought I lost it somehow. The kitchen book really only gets read while I'm waiting for the microwave or the espresso maker or the toaster to finish its thing, so it's almost always a reread.
Sylvester, Or The Wicked Uncle, by Georgette Heyer. The current iPhone book. The female protagonist is an author, and is thoroughly cowed by her (admittedly awful)stepmother, both of which are unusual in Heyer heroines.
The Winter Prince, by Elizabeth Wein. When I was in Uncle Hugo's, I had some credit to spend, and having just read Code Name Verity, I picked up a couple of her older novels. This one is from 1993, and is Arthurian, with Mordred as the viewpoint character. I'm only a few pages in.
Fool Moon, by Jim Butcher. The second Harry Dresden book, which I started on my iPad when the restaurant I was at turned out to be too dark to read a conventional book comfortably.
What I plan to read:
Red Embers, by Dorothy Lyons. I loved her horse books when I was young, and discovered that there were a few I'd never read, and requested them from interlibrary loan. This one just arrived, so it gets to jump the queue, but I haven't actually started it yet, because of the aforementioned dark restaurant.
Doris Egan's Ivory trilogy. I got the three-novel omnibus from the library via interlibrary loan, and only made it through the first two books before I had to return the book -- ILL books aren't renewable. I found an affordable used copy for sale online, and it recently arrived, so that's probably next in the queue. It's thick enough that it doesn't travel well, though. It'd be a great candidate for an ebook version.
