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I like that this meme is still making the rounds now that I am slightly beyond the point of congratulating myself for simply managing to sleep and wake in a semi-reasonable fashion. (The sleep schedule problems were not at all helped by upstairs dog barking all night due to her person's absence on Christmas and the night after.) I cleaned and did laundry yesterday, and did something that almost qualified as cooking dinner.
What are you currently reading?
Witch Week. I'm doing what I normally do, starting with Charmed Life, reading The Lives of Christopher Chant since it's in the same volume (we do have another CL but I generally read this one), and then in the next volume skipping Caprona because I want to read WW right away. I will go back and read Caprona this time, I think, but I think that a lot.
Also loads of Yuletide stories recommended by friends.
What did you recently finish reading?
Cryoburn, and I begin to wonder if the point isn't that Miles wasn't challenged at all by that situation, nor did he grow or change. Considering the ending, I mean. It doesn't make it a great novel in itself, but in the context of the series maybe it's right. We'll see eventually, I hope.
Also Martha Wells' The Siren Depths, which unusually for a book called after the sea has only about one chapter of water in it at all. This seems to be the last Raksura book, and though I've enjoyed them all right I think there's something about them that doesn't work; Wells tells things sort of obliquely, and that works fine when I can read in human motivations and feelings but not so well when the characters are nonhuman. According to the notes she's doing a couple of YAs next, which should be interesting.
What do you think you'll read next?
Apart from Caprona, I am considering a massive reread of all the atevi books, since I've been wishing for them since the first month I was in Japan. There is also a giant pile of gifts probably coming my way tonight, and The Ghost With Trembling Wings coming in the mail soon. (Wim's present, but if I charge the e-reader so he can finish Requite he'll never notice.)
What are you currently reading?
Witch Week. I'm doing what I normally do, starting with Charmed Life, reading The Lives of Christopher Chant since it's in the same volume (we do have another CL but I generally read this one), and then in the next volume skipping Caprona because I want to read WW right away. I will go back and read Caprona this time, I think, but I think that a lot.
Also loads of Yuletide stories recommended by friends.
What did you recently finish reading?
Cryoburn, and I begin to wonder if the point isn't that Miles wasn't challenged at all by that situation, nor did he grow or change. Considering the ending, I mean. It doesn't make it a great novel in itself, but in the context of the series maybe it's right. We'll see eventually, I hope.
Also Martha Wells' The Siren Depths, which unusually for a book called after the sea has only about one chapter of water in it at all. This seems to be the last Raksura book, and though I've enjoyed them all right I think there's something about them that doesn't work; Wells tells things sort of obliquely, and that works fine when I can read in human motivations and feelings but not so well when the characters are nonhuman. According to the notes she's doing a couple of YAs next, which should be interesting.
What do you think you'll read next?
Apart from Caprona, I am considering a massive reread of all the atevi books, since I've been wishing for them since the first month I was in Japan. There is also a giant pile of gifts probably coming my way tonight, and The Ghost With Trembling Wings coming in the mail soon. (Wim's present, but if I charge the e-reader so he can finish Requite he'll never notice.)
