WWW Wednesdays
Dec. 26th, 2012 20:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyMeme from various people, because I do love talking about books.
What are you reading now?
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne Valente. A Christmas gift from my aunt, and sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland…, which I loved. I like this book too, though its pleasures are not as fierce and immediate as those of its predecessor, but which fits with the fact that this is a sequel, and kind of a double katabasis, and that September is growing up. I have about a quarter of the book to go and it just did that thing where it turned and now I love it fiercely.
What did you just finish reading?
A Secret History by Mary Gentle. It's an alternate history of the Burgundian Wars of the late 15thC in central and western Europe (that entire clause contains more knowledge of the period/region than I had before reading the book) with a female mercenary captain as the protagonist. Having finished the book, I can't decide if it's techno-Orientalist or not, which probably means that it is, but I also know that I need to read the other three books in the sequence before I can fully evaluate it, since it was planned as one novel originally. I hated the frame-tale characters, though, omg.
What will you read next?
I got China Miéville's Railsea for Christmas, so I will definitely read that before the end of break, and I have a stack of books to try to read down as well as a stack of books I borrowed fromshveta_writes, including the next book of Marie Rutkoski's The Kronos Chronicles, yay!
What are you reading now?
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne Valente. A Christmas gift from my aunt, and sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland…, which I loved. I like this book too, though its pleasures are not as fierce and immediate as those of its predecessor, but which fits with the fact that this is a sequel, and kind of a double katabasis, and that September is growing up. I have about a quarter of the book to go and it just did that thing where it turned and now I love it fiercely.
What did you just finish reading?
A Secret History by Mary Gentle. It's an alternate history of the Burgundian Wars of the late 15thC in central and western Europe (that entire clause contains more knowledge of the period/region than I had before reading the book) with a female mercenary captain as the protagonist. Having finished the book, I can't decide if it's techno-Orientalist or not, which probably means that it is, but I also know that I need to read the other three books in the sequence before I can fully evaluate it, since it was planned as one novel originally. I hated the frame-tale characters, though, omg.
What will you read next?
I got China Miéville's Railsea for Christmas, so I will definitely read that before the end of break, and I have a stack of books to try to read down as well as a stack of books I borrowed from
shveta_writes, including the next book of Marie Rutkoski's The Kronos Chronicles, yay!