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What I'm reading
Erm…how does one define "reading"? I guess I'm still one chapter in to The Freedom Maze. Status quo antebellum on that, literally. (Har.)
What I've just read
I can actually answer this one! I read Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe on the plane to Minneapolis on Thursday because of reasons. It's a superficial take on an interesting story, namely the New Jersey-born acrobat who wound up recruiting the most successful "circus" of Japanese entertainers and taking them on a world tour in 1866. There was way too much biographical detail and way too little analysis for my taste, but mind-bogglingly, the reviews I googled loved it. Much more happily, I bought Malinda Lo's Inheritance at the Booksmith before Welcome to Night Vale last Wednesday and read it on the plane on Monday and loved it. It's not quite as overtly The X-Files as Adaptation, because the biggest revelation of all dropped at the end of the first book, and I would happily have read another book filling in the time between the end of the action and the epilogue. But this is a daring, gutsy, smart YA SF novel, and I recommend both books to everyone.
What I'll read next
I have no idea. I would still like to read The Privilege of the Sword before Sirens, but the likelihood of that happening is slim. We'll see.
Erm…how does one define "reading"? I guess I'm still one chapter in to The Freedom Maze. Status quo antebellum on that, literally. (Har.)
What I've just read
I can actually answer this one! I read Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe on the plane to Minneapolis on Thursday because of reasons. It's a superficial take on an interesting story, namely the New Jersey-born acrobat who wound up recruiting the most successful "circus" of Japanese entertainers and taking them on a world tour in 1866. There was way too much biographical detail and way too little analysis for my taste, but mind-bogglingly, the reviews I googled loved it. Much more happily, I bought Malinda Lo's Inheritance at the Booksmith before Welcome to Night Vale last Wednesday and read it on the plane on Monday and loved it. It's not quite as overtly The X-Files as Adaptation, because the biggest revelation of all dropped at the end of the first book, and I would happily have read another book filling in the time between the end of the action and the epilogue. But this is a daring, gutsy, smart YA SF novel, and I recommend both books to everyone.
What I'll read next
I have no idea. I would still like to read The Privilege of the Sword before Sirens, but the likelihood of that happening is slim. We'll see.