Reading Wednesday
Jun. 10th, 2015 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naathRead:
Busy week!
I finished
*Exotic England, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. I like this, as a speedy summary of non-white people in England/under English control and the effects England had on them and that they had on England. Alibhai-Brown is mostly positive, although doesn't ignore the awful racism, and if the book has a point I guess it is mostly that English culture has a long history of reaching out and learning from others as well as of going out and stomping all over them and that the first part is good.
*What I have of Buffy season 9 (I read 2-4 recently, 1 previously)
I'm a bit "meh". But I have a dreadful I WANNA KNOW about it, which is daft, because clearly there is going to be an endless succession of Problems To Solve until Whedon (et. al) get bored
*Uprooted, Naomi Novik.
I like the dragons, so I picked up this.
OMG IT IS AMAZING. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. I have no idea how to describe the "can not put it down" nature of it though, I don't know anything about writing technique. It's a fantasy novel more like a fairy-tale. It has people who do bad things because they have been corrupted by bad things, but it doesn't actually have any 'evil' people, which I rather like. Also I like that it has female magic-users who don't have their magic go away/wrong if they stop being virgins, at least one has children; which is rather an annoyance in a lot of this sort of story.
[caution - one scene of attempted rape; quite a lot of violence; contagious magical evil that makes people do bad things/changes their nature]
Reading:
Nemesis Games, James S. A. Corey (which is a pseudonym for two people writing together). Volume many of the Expanse. I like the series. Sort of noir-detective meets horr-ish SF (by which I mean the aliens are right out of a horror story, but the rest of the trapping are SF). At this point I'm mostly thinking "ah yes, more of the same", which is nice, I like that :) I wouldn't recommend starting the series here, the first is Leviathan Wakes, I like it and I don't like things that are mostly/entirely horror but also I'm not put off by being scared or reading about gross things (and if you are you probably won't like it). There is (already? going to be?) a TV show (which might make it to the UK at some point I guess) which I expect to have much more graphical disgusting things. I particularly like the just-casually-mentioned non heterosexual, monogamous relationships.
Next:
Probably Station 11. About which I hear Good Things.
Busy week!
I finished
*Exotic England, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. I like this, as a speedy summary of non-white people in England/under English control and the effects England had on them and that they had on England. Alibhai-Brown is mostly positive, although doesn't ignore the awful racism, and if the book has a point I guess it is mostly that English culture has a long history of reaching out and learning from others as well as of going out and stomping all over them and that the first part is good.
*What I have of Buffy season 9 (I read 2-4 recently, 1 previously)
I'm a bit "meh". But I have a dreadful I WANNA KNOW about it, which is daft, because clearly there is going to be an endless succession of Problems To Solve until Whedon (et. al) get bored
*Uprooted, Naomi Novik.
I like the dragons, so I picked up this.
OMG IT IS AMAZING. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. I have no idea how to describe the "can not put it down" nature of it though, I don't know anything about writing technique. It's a fantasy novel more like a fairy-tale. It has people who do bad things because they have been corrupted by bad things, but it doesn't actually have any 'evil' people, which I rather like. Also I like that it has female magic-users who don't have their magic go away/wrong if they stop being virgins, at least one has children; which is rather an annoyance in a lot of this sort of story.
[caution - one scene of attempted rape; quite a lot of violence; contagious magical evil that makes people do bad things/changes their nature]
Reading:
Nemesis Games, James S. A. Corey (which is a pseudonym for two people writing together). Volume many of the Expanse. I like the series. Sort of noir-detective meets horr-ish SF (by which I mean the aliens are right out of a horror story, but the rest of the trapping are SF). At this point I'm mostly thinking "ah yes, more of the same", which is nice, I like that :) I wouldn't recommend starting the series here, the first is Leviathan Wakes, I like it and I don't like things that are mostly/entirely horror but also I'm not put off by being scared or reading about gross things (and if you are you probably won't like it). There is (already? going to be?) a TV show (which might make it to the UK at some point I guess) which I expect to have much more graphical disgusting things. I particularly like the just-casually-mentioned non heterosexual, monogamous relationships.
Next:
Probably Station 11. About which I hear Good Things.