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bedlamsbardWednesday reads on a Thursday!
What I've just finished reading
OH BOY, A LOT OF BOOKS. Pretty often when the semester ends I tear through books like a madwoman -- I don't stop reading during the term (I've had two occasions in my life where I just Could Not with fiction and that was a sign of some really, really bad brainweasels), but I slow way, way down. And then when the semester ends it all comes bursting out and I devour books. Usually older rereads, which these mostly are, rather than something new to me; during the term I tend to do really, really familiar rereads that I don't have to pay much attention to. Older rereads are things I haven't read in quite a few years, but did read at least once, so are familiar enough to be comforting but not so unfamiliar that it takes a lot of mental effort. There are some newer rereads on this list too -- Murderbot is in that category -- and a couple of new-to-me books that I read on the plane.
I'm a fast reader.
What I'm currently reading
I've got a few of my slow rereads in progress -- this is the stuff I'm so familiar with I can do a few pages here and there and whose prose is close enough to my style that it can reset me, since the problem with the way I read and the way I write is that I'm a mimic, I'll pick up someone else's style without meaning to, and it will throw me off. Barbara Hambly and Martha Wells are my two go-tos (I've got The Time of the Dark and The Element of Fire in progress), and a few others.
What I'm reading next
Some more Mercedes Lackey, since I'm apparently on a Lackey kick -- The Black Swan since I might as well round out the fairy tale retellings, then the Bardic Voices and Bedlam's Bard novels. (The latter of which I'm going to have to buy, as my home library got rid of their copies while I was in Atlanta. THE HORROR.) The rest of the Rogue Squadron books, probably Swordheart since it's in the same universe as the Clocktaur Wars. (I found them...fine? They were fine.)
What I've just finished reading
OH BOY, A LOT OF BOOKS. Pretty often when the semester ends I tear through books like a madwoman -- I don't stop reading during the term (I've had two occasions in my life where I just Could Not with fiction and that was a sign of some really, really bad brainweasels), but I slow way, way down. And then when the semester ends it all comes bursting out and I devour books. Usually older rereads, which these mostly are, rather than something new to me; during the term I tend to do really, really familiar rereads that I don't have to pay much attention to. Older rereads are things I haven't read in quite a few years, but did read at least once, so are familiar enough to be comforting but not so unfamiliar that it takes a lot of mental effort. There are some newer rereads on this list too -- Murderbot is in that category -- and a couple of new-to-me books that I read on the plane.
- Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries) - Martha Wells - reread
- Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries) - Martha Wells - reread
- Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries) - Martha Wells - reread
- Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron - Michael Stackpole - reread
- Clockwork Boys - T. Kingfisher - new
- The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher - new
- Firebird - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- Kingdom of Needle and Bone - Mira Grant - new
- Final Girls - Mira Grant - reread
- Rolling in the Deep - Mira Grant - reread
- The Fairy Godmother (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- One Good Knight (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- Fortune's Fool (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- The Snow Queen (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- The Sleeping Beauty (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- Beauty and the Werewolf (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
- A Tangled Web (Five Hundred Kingdoms) - Mercedes Lackey - reread
I'm a fast reader.
What I'm currently reading
I've got a few of my slow rereads in progress -- this is the stuff I'm so familiar with I can do a few pages here and there and whose prose is close enough to my style that it can reset me, since the problem with the way I read and the way I write is that I'm a mimic, I'll pick up someone else's style without meaning to, and it will throw me off. Barbara Hambly and Martha Wells are my two go-tos (I've got The Time of the Dark and The Element of Fire in progress), and a few others.
What I'm reading next
Some more Mercedes Lackey, since I'm apparently on a Lackey kick -- The Black Swan since I might as well round out the fairy tale retellings, then the Bardic Voices and Bedlam's Bard novels. (The latter of which I'm going to have to buy, as my home library got rid of their copies while I was in Atlanta. THE HORROR.) The rest of the Rogue Squadron books, probably Swordheart since it's in the same universe as the Clocktaur Wars. (I found them...fine? They were fine.)
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Date: 2018-12-28 04:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2018-12-28 02:16 pm (UTC)Brenner had his points. He reminded me a bit of my father sometimes, very to the point and practical when it suited him and at other times maddingly blank.
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