Reading Wednesday
Jul. 17th, 2013 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhWhat did you just finish?
Only one book this week: The Shirt on His Back by Barbara Hambly. Ben, Shaw, and Hannibal travel to a fur-trading camp in the Rocky Mountains to investigate the death of Shaw's younger brother. Ah, I love this book so. The setting is gorgeous and fascinating, and I like so many of the secondary characters, and I really really love the way the mystery plays out. (Though I found the theory of "Aaron Burr did it!" absolutely hilarious.)
There's also so many big adventure moments in this book: Torture! Plague! Quarantine! Poison! Falling in a flooded river! Kidnapped by Indians! Kidnapped by different Indians! It's all very exciting and fun. I like the new nicknames everyone gets, though it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that "Winter Moon" is, of course, just another name for the month of January. And then at the end there is a baby! I am secretly super curious about who Baby John's godparents are.
What are you currently reading?
Ran Away by Barbara Hambly. AYASHA AND FRANCE AND BEN AND ROSE AND HANNIBAL AND AHHH IT'S SO GREAT. Also: Benjamin January/Les Mis crossover. It should exist. Think about it: Grantaire and Hannibal (who, yes, isn't in Paris at the right time, but shhhh) could get drunk and quote Latin at each other; Ayasha would help out Eponine so her life choices don't result in dying at 15; Ben would probably appreciate Enjolras's efforts to improve things, but not so much his inflexibility and arrogance. (Note: I haven't read the book in about a decade. I have, however, been reading a lot of the fic lately! Which totally qualifies me to comment upon it.)
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French. I totally should have finished this book this week, but it's really long and also I spent two entire days in a car. Which perhaps should have increased the time I had to read? But
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz. Hmmm, I kind of got stalled on this book and haven't read a page all week. But I will come back to it! Probably!
Only one book this week: The Shirt on His Back by Barbara Hambly. Ben, Shaw, and Hannibal travel to a fur-trading camp in the Rocky Mountains to investigate the death of Shaw's younger brother. Ah, I love this book so. The setting is gorgeous and fascinating, and I like so many of the secondary characters, and I really really love the way the mystery plays out. (Though I found the theory of "Aaron Burr did it!" absolutely hilarious.)
There's also so many big adventure moments in this book: Torture! Plague! Quarantine! Poison! Falling in a flooded river! Kidnapped by Indians! Kidnapped by different Indians! It's all very exciting and fun. I like the new nicknames everyone gets, though it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that "Winter Moon" is, of course, just another name for the month of January. And then at the end there is a baby! I am secretly super curious about who Baby John's godparents are.
What are you currently reading?
Ran Away by Barbara Hambly. AYASHA AND FRANCE AND BEN AND ROSE AND HANNIBAL AND AHHH IT'S SO GREAT. Also: Benjamin January/Les Mis crossover. It should exist. Think about it: Grantaire and Hannibal (who, yes, isn't in Paris at the right time, but shhhh) could get drunk and quote Latin at each other; Ayasha would help out Eponine so her life choices don't result in dying at 15; Ben would probably appreciate Enjolras's efforts to improve things, but not so much his inflexibility and arrogance. (Note: I haven't read the book in about a decade. I have, however, been reading a lot of the fic lately! Which totally qualifies me to comment upon it.)
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French. I totally should have finished this book this week, but it's really long and also I spent two entire days in a car. Which perhaps should have increased the time I had to read? But
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz. Hmmm, I kind of got stalled on this book and haven't read a page all week. But I will come back to it! Probably!
