So it's Wednesday again
Feb. 13th, 2013 20:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyWhat I'm reading
Still Forms on Foxfield by Joan Slonczewski. Quakers! Quakers in spaaaaace. One possible wrinkle I did not anticipate: tearing up every other chapter, because I may not believe in a god but I do believe in the principles of Quakerism, and it's something I didn't know I was missing, to see them so explicitly laid out in a book by characters who believe in them. (To the point, actually, where I am feeling that I need to brush up on my Quakerism-knowledge. More properly, I need to find a Meeting and start taking First Day classes.) And like, not only Quakerism, but specifically Philadelphia Quakerism. This is, in other words, a book that Speaks To Me.
What I've just read
I finished Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan, and I also finished, in the space of about two days, A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. Further remarks to follow on both of them, but I expect that if you think you'll like the Brennan book from the title, you should pick it up, because you will.
What I'll read next
I have decided that, partly to try to clean out the shelves and partly because YA books generally take less brain, that this year I am going to try to read the backlog of YA books I have built up. (After YA will be the more brain candy-ish end of the SFF spectrum.) At the moment, that means Tamora Pierce's Mastiff (a borrowed book, which I also want to try to finish all of), and then Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch. Of course I have other books that get to jump the queue because of various reasons, but YA is very much the goal.
Still Forms on Foxfield by Joan Slonczewski. Quakers! Quakers in spaaaaace. One possible wrinkle I did not anticipate: tearing up every other chapter, because I may not believe in a god but I do believe in the principles of Quakerism, and it's something I didn't know I was missing, to see them so explicitly laid out in a book by characters who believe in them. (To the point, actually, where I am feeling that I need to brush up on my Quakerism-knowledge. More properly, I need to find a Meeting and start taking First Day classes.) And like, not only Quakerism, but specifically Philadelphia Quakerism. This is, in other words, a book that Speaks To Me.
What I've just read
I finished Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan, and I also finished, in the space of about two days, A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. Further remarks to follow on both of them, but I expect that if you think you'll like the Brennan book from the title, you should pick it up, because you will.
What I'll read next
I have decided that, partly to try to clean out the shelves and partly because YA books generally take less brain, that this year I am going to try to read the backlog of YA books I have built up. (After YA will be the more brain candy-ish end of the SFF spectrum.) At the moment, that means Tamora Pierce's Mastiff (a borrowed book, which I also want to try to finish all of), and then Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch. Of course I have other books that get to jump the queue because of various reasons, but YA is very much the goal.
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Date: 2013-02-14 15:02 (UTC)Judith Moffett's other books, the trilogy that starts with The Ragged World, may be of more interest than Pennterra -- less explicitly Friendly, but still rooted in the principles and better written (at least the first two -- I haven't read the third yet as I only just found out about it). The second book was shortlisted for the Tiptree Award.
(Also, lately I've been getting stirrings to return to Meeting -- I haven't attended for *cough* *cough*.)
---L.