Reading Wednesday
Nov. 23rd, 2016 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardWhat I'm currently reading
I've been wanting to reread At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch for years (I originally read it when I was an undergrad), and I finally got a copy of it. I missed reading nonfiction so much, y'all -- there's nothing really stopping me from doing so, but I haven't done so in a few months now, and like...I'm an academic, I'm used to reading nonfiction all the time, especially coming straight off a master's thesis. At Day's Close is a study of night in medieval and early modern Europe (and some in the Americas) -- super interesting, if you like microhistory, and it's solid scholarship too.
I'm also on a reread of Martha Wells' The Serpent Sea, but I'm not really feeling it right now so I'll probably switch to something else. I'm stalled out on my Star Wars: Ahsoka reread.
What I've just finished reading
For Rewatch I just sort of skipped the interstitial novel section and moved onto the Rebels section, which actually kicks off with Servants of the Empire: Edge of the Galaxy by Jason Fry, so I read that on Sunday. (It was...a little too real, considering current events in the U.S. Except actually it ended up seeming too mild compared to current events in the U.S. and things like government reaction to protests.)
I also reread The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (total comfort read) -- I also sort of skimmed through a couple of Valdemar novels, but those don't really count since that was skimming for the familiar comforting parts, not the whole book. I also finished up Martha Wells' The Ships of Air, as well as the other two Barbara Hamilton novels, A Marked Man and Sup with the Devil.
What I'm reading next
The other three Servants of the Empire novels will be up sometime in the next week or two (when exactly is on The Schedule), and since I'm not feeling The Serpent Sea I'm absently skipping through my Kindle and trying to decide what to read. Maybe some Hambly, maybe some Pierce, who knows. We'll figure out what it was this time next week. I guess probably the third Fall of Ile-Rien novel.
I've been wanting to reread At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch for years (I originally read it when I was an undergrad), and I finally got a copy of it. I missed reading nonfiction so much, y'all -- there's nothing really stopping me from doing so, but I haven't done so in a few months now, and like...I'm an academic, I'm used to reading nonfiction all the time, especially coming straight off a master's thesis. At Day's Close is a study of night in medieval and early modern Europe (and some in the Americas) -- super interesting, if you like microhistory, and it's solid scholarship too.
I'm also on a reread of Martha Wells' The Serpent Sea, but I'm not really feeling it right now so I'll probably switch to something else. I'm stalled out on my Star Wars: Ahsoka reread.
What I've just finished reading
For Rewatch I just sort of skipped the interstitial novel section and moved onto the Rebels section, which actually kicks off with Servants of the Empire: Edge of the Galaxy by Jason Fry, so I read that on Sunday. (It was...a little too real, considering current events in the U.S. Except actually it ended up seeming too mild compared to current events in the U.S. and things like government reaction to protests.)
I also reread The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (total comfort read) -- I also sort of skimmed through a couple of Valdemar novels, but those don't really count since that was skimming for the familiar comforting parts, not the whole book. I also finished up Martha Wells' The Ships of Air, as well as the other two Barbara Hamilton novels, A Marked Man and Sup with the Devil.
What I'm reading next
The other three Servants of the Empire novels will be up sometime in the next week or two (when exactly is on The Schedule), and since I'm not feeling The Serpent Sea I'm absently skipping through my Kindle and trying to decide what to read. Maybe some Hambly, maybe some Pierce, who knows. We'll figure out what it was this time next week. I guess probably the third Fall of Ile-Rien novel.