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bedlamsbardSeen around and snagged from several people, heh.
What are you currently reading?
For fun, I'm reading Barbara Hambly's Sisters of the Raven, which is a fantasy novel about LADIES (yay!) in a highly restrictive society. I didn't realize that when I first started it, so I wasn't entirely sure how I'd feel about it, but I think she's handling it well so far. In some ways it's kind of painful, but in a good way. (Restrictive in this sense meaning that women have to be veiled in public, well-bred women aren't supposed to be seen in some public settings, women don't even have -- what we'd think of as proper names, I guess? The men have names like Oryn and Iorraldus and so on, and the women are named things like "the Summer Concubine" and "Foxfire Girl." Except for one, for reasons. It's interesting.)
For school, I'm reading David Mattingly's Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, which I've actually been reading since October, but haven't quite managed to finish yet because something else always comes up. Mattingly's actually a prof in my department at Leicester, but I haven't met him yet since he's on sabbatical. Normally he'd be running my program. I just started Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome, since one of my final papers is on incest laws in Rome.
What did you recently finish reading?
Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory's Obsidian Mountain trilogy: The Outstretched Shadow, To Light a Candle, and As Darkness Falls. It's a high fantasy trilogy with elves, demons, unicorns, centaurs, magic, good v. evil, and so on -- but I actually really love it, it's one of my favorite high fantasy stories. It manages to get that really grueling, disastrous, desperate feel of a dragged-out war. (The sequel trilogy disappointed me because it didn't accomplish that same feeling of desperation.) Before that, I reread some Chrestomanci and some Susan Cooper: comfort reading for the end of term + travel + back home.
I also just finished reading the TPB of Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself, which was absolutely delightful and now I have to buy the rest of the arc. (Deaged/reborn teenage Loki tries to do the Right Thing. No, I'm serious, this is canon and not fic.)
What do you think you'll read next?
I've got a pile of books on Greek and Roman magic I need to read for school, so that and a metaphorical giant pile of articles on incest. So that, for class! For fun, since I'm on vacation, I've still got a pile of books I bought over the summer that I didn't get around to reading before I left: God's War by Kameron Hurley and Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce are probably at the top of the list. I'm also feeling the strange urge to reread The Hobbit, even though I just reread it about a month ago. Gee, I can't imagine why.
What are you currently reading?
For fun, I'm reading Barbara Hambly's Sisters of the Raven, which is a fantasy novel about LADIES (yay!) in a highly restrictive society. I didn't realize that when I first started it, so I wasn't entirely sure how I'd feel about it, but I think she's handling it well so far. In some ways it's kind of painful, but in a good way. (Restrictive in this sense meaning that women have to be veiled in public, well-bred women aren't supposed to be seen in some public settings, women don't even have -- what we'd think of as proper names, I guess? The men have names like Oryn and Iorraldus and so on, and the women are named things like "the Summer Concubine" and "Foxfire Girl." Except for one, for reasons. It's interesting.)
For school, I'm reading David Mattingly's Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, which I've actually been reading since October, but haven't quite managed to finish yet because something else always comes up. Mattingly's actually a prof in my department at Leicester, but I haven't met him yet since he's on sabbatical. Normally he'd be running my program. I just started Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome, since one of my final papers is on incest laws in Rome.
What did you recently finish reading?
Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory's Obsidian Mountain trilogy: The Outstretched Shadow, To Light a Candle, and As Darkness Falls. It's a high fantasy trilogy with elves, demons, unicorns, centaurs, magic, good v. evil, and so on -- but I actually really love it, it's one of my favorite high fantasy stories. It manages to get that really grueling, disastrous, desperate feel of a dragged-out war. (The sequel trilogy disappointed me because it didn't accomplish that same feeling of desperation.) Before that, I reread some Chrestomanci and some Susan Cooper: comfort reading for the end of term + travel + back home.
I also just finished reading the TPB of Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself, which was absolutely delightful and now I have to buy the rest of the arc. (Deaged/reborn teenage Loki tries to do the Right Thing. No, I'm serious, this is canon and not fic.)
What do you think you'll read next?
I've got a pile of books on Greek and Roman magic I need to read for school, so that and a metaphorical giant pile of articles on incest. So that, for class! For fun, since I'm on vacation, I've still got a pile of books I bought over the summer that I didn't get around to reading before I left: God's War by Kameron Hurley and Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce are probably at the top of the list. I'm also feeling the strange urge to reread The Hobbit, even though I just reread it about a month ago. Gee, I can't imagine why.