Wednesday reading
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jinian• What are you currently reading?
Destroyer, C. J. Cherryh. (#7) About time to go find #9 at a library, after which I'll be on my own hardcovers. And yes, Cajeiri did get to be fortunate seven for meeting the kyo; I'd forgotten this whole homecoming disaster happens on his actual eighth birthday, poor kid. Is Cherryh endorsing atevi numerology? If it's real I am in for a confusing next year: it's the year of the snake, which is my birth year, so that's good, but I'll be 36. I think nines are okay, so the squareness shouldn't be a problem, but 36 is dastardly even. Superstitions: fight!
Les Miserables on my own Sony PRS-505, which is red and subtly sparkly. It was a bit dirty and had a weird barcode sticker when it arrived from Ebay, but I cleaned it well and it looks almost new. I am a little intimidated by the fact that it's claiming the whole novel has 3200 pages, but have made it through the first book, in which there is: a holy guy. Who has some silver.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Lost Truth, Dawn Cook. Wait, why did I like this series? There's been a Keribdis this whole time (off-stage) but suddenly the author threw in a Silla to go with her, which is just mean. The ending is all BABIEZ and senseless monogamy; worse, both are by way of choosing one of the men who are being jerks fighting over you, ugh. The genetics almost make sense but not quite, and the tree biology is unlikely at best. ...It was still pretty fun. And in the last two books there are finally multiple other women! It was a Bechdel pass all along because of Alissa and her mom at the start, but after that there was a long lady-free zone.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Halfway thinky books are proving to be a bit much, so I need some serious fluff/crack. Froi of the Exiles maybe. I want to reread some manga, but I don't have copies of the ones I want (Skip Beat! and Kimi ni Todoke to start with) and deciding whether to library-reserve stacks of them or charge the pad and read online is Too Much Deciding right now. After tomorrow the paper revision will be in and my brain can start growing back.
Destroyer, C. J. Cherryh. (#7) About time to go find #9 at a library, after which I'll be on my own hardcovers. And yes, Cajeiri did get to be fortunate seven for meeting the kyo; I'd forgotten this whole homecoming disaster happens on his actual eighth birthday, poor kid. Is Cherryh endorsing atevi numerology? If it's real I am in for a confusing next year: it's the year of the snake, which is my birth year, so that's good, but I'll be 36. I think nines are okay, so the squareness shouldn't be a problem, but 36 is dastardly even. Superstitions: fight!
Les Miserables on my own Sony PRS-505, which is red and subtly sparkly. It was a bit dirty and had a weird barcode sticker when it arrived from Ebay, but I cleaned it well and it looks almost new. I am a little intimidated by the fact that it's claiming the whole novel has 3200 pages, but have made it through the first book, in which there is: a holy guy. Who has some silver.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Lost Truth, Dawn Cook. Wait, why did I like this series? There's been a Keribdis this whole time (off-stage) but suddenly the author threw in a Silla to go with her, which is just mean. The ending is all BABIEZ and senseless monogamy; worse, both are by way of choosing one of the men who are being jerks fighting over you, ugh. The genetics almost make sense but not quite, and the tree biology is unlikely at best. ...It was still pretty fun. And in the last two books there are finally multiple other women! It was a Bechdel pass all along because of Alissa and her mom at the start, but after that there was a long lady-free zone.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Halfway thinky books are proving to be a bit much, so I need some serious fluff/crack. Froi of the Exiles maybe. I want to reread some manga, but I don't have copies of the ones I want (Skip Beat! and Kimi ni Todoke to start with) and deciding whether to library-reserve stacks of them or charge the pad and read online is Too Much Deciding right now. After tomorrow the paper revision will be in and my brain can start growing back.
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