slightly belated Wednesday reads

[bedlamsbard]

What I'm currently reading

The Witches of Wenshar, the second Sun Wolf and Starhawk book, by Barbara Hambly. I'm sort of inching through James Luceno's Star Wars: Catalyst -- I suspect it's going to be another DNF, as Luceno's one of my least favorite SW writers and I have a low tolerance for ~genius men and the women who take care of them, which is pretty much what the beginning of the book reads as. (And from what I've heard, I don't think that's going to improve; I don't particularly care about Galen Erso and Orson Krennic's relationship, either.)

What I've just finished reading

I'm going through books a little more slowly in February than I did in January, which has its highs and lows. I finished rereading The Siren Depths, and went through The Ladies of Mandrigyn (the first Sun Wolf and Starhawk book) and The Midnight Mayor (the second Matthew Swift) book, all of which were rereads.

I also moved The Fifth Season to my Did Not Finish list, and got through one chapter of The House of the Four Winds this morning before it went to the DNF list too. Blah. I suspected it would hit the DNF list as soon as it said as an aside "oh, yeah, these seventeen countries all share one ambassador for convenience." That's not...how international politics...works... (Sort of an alternate fantasy Earth, which I tend to find dull when they're just making up fancy names for England and France so that they can slot in their tee-tiny fictional country but not have to think about it too hard. Like, either do something interesting with it and do it fast, or go full fantasy, dude.) Also, the MC was...painfully boring.

What I'm reading next

I keep meaning to reread the Rivers of London books so I can read The Hanging Tree, since I can't remember what happened, but...I like the Matthew Swift books better which is why I reread The Midnight Mayor instead WHOOPS.

I've been meaning to reread the Enduring Flame trilogy as well, but we'll see. In all likelihood...more Barbara Hambly.

Comments

[dhampyresa]

these seventeen countries all share one ambassador
WHAT WHAT

Can I ask what the issue with Fifth Season was? Edit: I just realised you didn't reply the past couple times I asked you what didn't work for you in a book -- if you'd rather I not ask again, just let me know and I won't.

[bedlamsbard]

I KNOW RIGHT.

I've enjoyed a lot of Jemisin's other books, but I'm just super not in the headspace right now to deal with a book that in the first hundred pages includes child murder (parent of child), child abuse, more murder, slavery, discrimination, forced reproduction, and an apocalypse, but the latter is sort of negligible at this point.

(I am just really bad at replying to messages, sorry, I tend to let them pile up and then it's six months later and it's too late to answer them.)

[dhampyresa]

Wow, I'm glad I asked! I'm really not in the right headspace for a book like that at present.

(Fair enough, I get like that too -- I just wanted to make sure I hadn't overstepped.)

[bedlamsbard]

Yeah -- I feel bad because it's so highly rated, and because I've liked her other books, but yeah...not now.

(Nope, no worries! Getting a response from me is always, uh, chancy -- I tend to not answer e-mails, either. WHOOPS.)