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What I'm reading
Well, I won Redemption in Indigo from Karen Lord's British publisher, and it is sitting on my desk with a few pages read. I also got an old Loeb edition of Plato from the offsite storage (getting the updated, less bowdlerized text is a ridiculous pain in the ass) and stuck my nose in the Symposium for the afternoon. Of all things, it's fanfic that's finally getting me to read this, years after I did my Classics degree. Ditto Martial's epigrams, though sadly I may just have to go sit in the classics library to read them. In the ideal world where I am not freakishly busy all the time I also started The Diamond Age because we're talking about techno-Orientalism tomorrow in seminar, but we do not live in that world.
What I've just read
I finally finished Still Forms on Foxfield. More thoughts to come, but suffice to say it was an interesting blend of the dated (gay marriage = radical), the wrong-headed (stuff about Japan), and the profoundly Quaker and feminist. Then I skived off work and read Mastiff by Tamora Pierce. I don't think the Beka books individually are her best work, but I loved this trilogy, and Tortall was way more interesting 200 years ago in a lot of ways.
What I'll read next
If it's not the 18thC Japanese text I'm supposed to be translating for my research paper, I'll be in real trouble. More realistically, I have Joan Slonczewski's (pronounced, in American-style Polish, "Slonshevski") Brain Plague on my shelf, and some other borrowed books to work through including Georgette Heyer's Sylvester.
Well, I won Redemption in Indigo from Karen Lord's British publisher, and it is sitting on my desk with a few pages read. I also got an old Loeb edition of Plato from the offsite storage (getting the updated, less bowdlerized text is a ridiculous pain in the ass) and stuck my nose in the Symposium for the afternoon. Of all things, it's fanfic that's finally getting me to read this, years after I did my Classics degree. Ditto Martial's epigrams, though sadly I may just have to go sit in the classics library to read them. In the ideal world where I am not freakishly busy all the time I also started The Diamond Age because we're talking about techno-Orientalism tomorrow in seminar, but we do not live in that world.
What I've just read
I finally finished Still Forms on Foxfield. More thoughts to come, but suffice to say it was an interesting blend of the dated (gay marriage = radical), the wrong-headed (stuff about Japan), and the profoundly Quaker and feminist. Then I skived off work and read Mastiff by Tamora Pierce. I don't think the Beka books individually are her best work, but I loved this trilogy, and Tortall was way more interesting 200 years ago in a lot of ways.
What I'll read next
If it's not the 18thC Japanese text I'm supposed to be translating for my research paper, I'll be in real trouble. More realistically, I have Joan Slonczewski's (pronounced, in American-style Polish, "Slonshevski") Brain Plague on my shelf, and some other borrowed books to work through including Georgette Heyer's Sylvester.