A week without wisdom teeth means it's Wednesday again

[starlady]

What I'm reading
I am about 1/4 of the way through Aliette de Bodard's Hugo-nominated novella On a Red Station, Drifting and I really like it so far. I have loved de Bodard's short stories and novels before, and although I'm sadly unfamiliar with this work's loose inspiration, A Dream of the Red Chamber, that is not detracting from my enjoyment. I have to say, though, that both covers (I'm reading the print version, although ironically de Bodard sent me the manuscript a while back and then I stupidly forgot about it; the ebook is still available) could be a lot better, to my eye.

What I've just read
I finally finished N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Kingdoms, approximately 2.5 years after putting it down because I'd speed-read my way through it in frenzy. I liked it--she is such a vivid writer--with the qualified exception of the whole "magical blindness" thing, which Jemisin herself addressed in a post on her blog. I will happily read the sequel, and her next two books. I also finished The Wild Machines, which was great.

What I'll read next
I have Karen Healey's When We Wake out from the library (yay!) and I'm still slowly trying to clear out my shelves. Possibly Akata Witch, although I know Lost Burgundy will sneak its way in there soon too.

But tomorrow I am going to see Kate Elliott (and Katherine Kerr) at Borderlands in San Francisco, and I am completely certain that Cold Steel is going to pre-empt a significant chunk of my weekend. I can't wait.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Katharine Kerr is underrated, IMO.

[starlady]

I get that impression. I'm not sure I'd know where to start with her books, though.

[lnhammer]

Daggerspell -- the Deverry books gain much from being read in order, despite being multi-threaded, timeline-slippy reincarnation fantasies. (I confess I haven't taken to her contemporary fantasies, despite wanting to like them.)

---L.

[thistleingrey]

Freeze Frames is a standalone; so is Polar City Blues. I read the second Deverry book first (and didn't like the first one subsequently), and read only through #4, mostly because I forgot to go back and read the later ones...later. (Publishing hiatus. Oh, gosh, there are fifteen total?) The recent Nola O'Grady ones are very lightweight and thus only subtly representative of what she can do, though sometimes light fiction is what's wanted, after all. I dunno. Do you know about this post and the reread underway?

[starlady]

I am definitely aware of that post and the reread! Honestly, I just don't have the time or the shelf space to acquire her books now, but I will definitely keep her name in the back of my mind.