Wednesday reading
Feb. 20th, 2013 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianIt hasn't been that long, but I'll get myself back on schedule.
• What are you currently reading?
Conspirator, which I managed to leave behind in a bathroom at school yesterday. Embarrassing, but I did get it back easily, unlike many places I could've left it. Return of the revenge of the doomed fishing trip! Barb being awful and Jago volunteering to "talk to her reasonably" is lovely, especially when paired with Jago saying unapologetically that she's too blunt-spoken to be the polite liaison to human family members. What would the reasonable have sounded like, exactly, Jago-ji?
It's strange to me that I like Jago's prickly jealousy so much, when I don't quite know what to think about human jealousy a lot of the time. Maybe it's the explicit dissociation of the whole relationship from human emotion and human expectations of fidelity; we did start out with Bren sort of assuming he was secondary in a relationship he thought was maybe open. I never feel like there's an unexamined notion that of course she'll be jealous, though in this one we do see it paying obvious sexual dividends, and it fascinates me that we have no real idea whether his reassurances are working as he hopes. Basically I continue to just love Jago. The little things add up over all the books to show us how strongly she just does her own thing, unusual and scandalous things included. Fancying Bren and going for it are pretty obvious, but there's definite disapproval a few times of her working for a man as work-partner to a man, when she should traditionally be partnered with and working for people of her same sex.
Homosexuality has not been addressed at all so far in these books, though of course I'm looking for it, but her social orientation is very interesting.
Return to Me, Justina Chen. A hopeful divorce book. Beyond that, I need to finish before I decide what I think.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Really just Deliverer. I used to read more when I was stressed out.
Since I'm writing in my office a lot, I'm glad to have collected a few absurd old SF novels for my shelf. I knew it would make me happy to read the spines when I needed distraction. Here they are:
The Pollinators of Eden
The Diploids (short stories; the diploids are superhuman!)
The Morphodite ("a genetically-patterned [sic], laboratory-raised human genius... its thoughts were total subversion")
The Planet Dweller (Women's Press: two collection impulses in one)
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Hopefully some of my languishing library books, though the reason they're languishing is that I'm not that into them.
• What are you currently reading?
Conspirator, which I managed to leave behind in a bathroom at school yesterday. Embarrassing, but I did get it back easily, unlike many places I could've left it. Return of the revenge of the doomed fishing trip! Barb being awful and Jago volunteering to "talk to her reasonably" is lovely, especially when paired with Jago saying unapologetically that she's too blunt-spoken to be the polite liaison to human family members. What would the reasonable have sounded like, exactly, Jago-ji?
It's strange to me that I like Jago's prickly jealousy so much, when I don't quite know what to think about human jealousy a lot of the time. Maybe it's the explicit dissociation of the whole relationship from human emotion and human expectations of fidelity; we did start out with Bren sort of assuming he was secondary in a relationship he thought was maybe open. I never feel like there's an unexamined notion that of course she'll be jealous, though in this one we do see it paying obvious sexual dividends, and it fascinates me that we have no real idea whether his reassurances are working as he hopes. Basically I continue to just love Jago. The little things add up over all the books to show us how strongly she just does her own thing, unusual and scandalous things included. Fancying Bren and going for it are pretty obvious, but there's definite disapproval a few times of her working for a man as work-partner to a man, when she should traditionally be partnered with and working for people of her same sex.
Homosexuality has not been addressed at all so far in these books, though of course I'm looking for it, but her social orientation is very interesting.
Return to Me, Justina Chen. A hopeful divorce book. Beyond that, I need to finish before I decide what I think.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Really just Deliverer. I used to read more when I was stressed out.
Since I'm writing in my office a lot, I'm glad to have collected a few absurd old SF novels for my shelf. I knew it would make me happy to read the spines when I needed distraction. Here they are:
The Pollinators of Eden
The Diploids (short stories; the diploids are superhuman!)
The Morphodite ("a genetically-patterned [sic], laboratory-raised human genius... its thoughts were total subversion")
The Planet Dweller (Women's Press: two collection impulses in one)
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Hopefully some of my languishing library books, though the reason they're languishing is that I'm not that into them.
