Reading Wednesday
Jan. 30th, 2013 05:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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What are you reading now?
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. I'm only about two chapters in, so I don't have a good sense of it yet, but it seems fairly light-hearted and funny. There has yet been no bad-mouthing of the BJP or Shiv Sena, which is pretty much the sole thing I knew about this novel before starting.
Also, The Inventor's Companion by Ariel Tachna. It's a Steampunk m/m romance! Of course I am reading this. In actuality, it's kind of terrible, which I am not really surprised by, as pretty much every gay romance I've read has been terrible to one extent or another. Not that it stops me from reading them, obviously. In this case, the romance between the leads is not the problem, surprisingly, but rather the absolutely thoughtless and plot-hole-filled worldbuilding.
And okay, there are also some problems with the romance, but it was developed rather believably, instead of being the 'love at first sight' that is so very common.
What did you just finish?
The last book I finished was Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson, which was surprisingly very much a page-turner. She just had so many interesting stories and facts and new ways of looking at things that I pretty much devoured this in a day. And I see she has another book called Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee, the Dark History of the Food Cheats, which I will totally have to check out, since that sounds even more fascinating.
After that, I read the first few pages of multiple things without being able to decide on what I wanted and not being grabbed by anything. One of the nice things about having a nook is that, when I'm in that sort of mood, I don't have to carry around an entire stack of books.
What books have you aquired this week?
Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan, which I've been meaning to acquire a copy of since forever. This one has an incredibly cheesy cartoon on the front, but was only about $3, so I suppose I can't complain. Also, Jim Corbett's India - Selections by R.E. Hawkins. Jim Corbett was a tiger hunter-turned-conservationist in the early 1900s, and supposedly was quite a good writer, particularly in describing wildlife, ecology, and anthropology. I first heard of him a few weeks ago, and when I saw this book, I figured I should check him out.
What are you reading now?
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry. I'm only about two chapters in, so I don't have a good sense of it yet, but it seems fairly light-hearted and funny. There has yet been no bad-mouthing of the BJP or Shiv Sena, which is pretty much the sole thing I knew about this novel before starting.
Also, The Inventor's Companion by Ariel Tachna. It's a Steampunk m/m romance! Of course I am reading this. In actuality, it's kind of terrible, which I am not really surprised by, as pretty much every gay romance I've read has been terrible to one extent or another. Not that it stops me from reading them, obviously. In this case, the romance between the leads is not the problem, surprisingly, but rather the absolutely thoughtless and plot-hole-filled worldbuilding.
And okay, there are also some problems with the romance, but it was developed rather believably, instead of being the 'love at first sight' that is so very common.
What did you just finish?
The last book I finished was Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson, which was surprisingly very much a page-turner. She just had so many interesting stories and facts and new ways of looking at things that I pretty much devoured this in a day. And I see she has another book called Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee, the Dark History of the Food Cheats, which I will totally have to check out, since that sounds even more fascinating.
After that, I read the first few pages of multiple things without being able to decide on what I wanted and not being grabbed by anything. One of the nice things about having a nook is that, when I'm in that sort of mood, I don't have to carry around an entire stack of books.
What books have you aquired this week?
Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan, which I've been meaning to acquire a copy of since forever. This one has an incredibly cheesy cartoon on the front, but was only about $3, so I suppose I can't complain. Also, Jim Corbett's India - Selections by R.E. Hawkins. Jim Corbett was a tiger hunter-turned-conservationist in the early 1900s, and supposedly was quite a good writer, particularly in describing wildlife, ecology, and anthropology. I first heard of him a few weeks ago, and when I saw this book, I figured I should check him out.
