Wednesday means it's November

[starlady]

*weeps with joy*

What I'm reading
Still reading Ôoku volume 9. My defense is that I haven't actually finished a book since the last day of September and "reading" this has been mostly not reading it. My previous comments still hold, but I am actually going to try to finish it soon, as I want to go to Japantown to get volume 10 in the near future. I also started reading Gullstruck Island by Frances Hardinge. I am only on page 44 but I love it already. No one is surprised. I'm also interested to note that it is very, very loosely based on Taiwan, in that it's about an island that had some tribal peoples on it that was then colonized by people from a more developed society on the mainland. The main character, Hathin, is from the last tribe that's mostly unassimilated.

What I've just read
I don't know. I've been reading a lot of random bits of things for my research papers. On that note, I want to give a shout-out to Karen Hellekson, whose book on alternate histories is way better than the articles about the same written by dudes. Quelle surprise.

What I'll read next
I have no idea. I really, really need to get in gear on the "sell books I'm not willing to pay $$ to store for a year and a half" plan, which is going to mess with the system I have going, such as it is, but good. But lately I've been really wanting to read The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, which I have on my shelf, and I'm also going to go out and buy all of Captain Marvel that I can get my hands on fairly soon, so we'll see.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Didn't know about the mild Taiwan link for the Hardinge. That's the one Hardinge I own (it was on sale at Book Repository when I got Code Name Verity or something), and I haven't read it yet. *perks up*

[starlady]

I adore Frances Hardinge.