Reading Wednesday
May. 14th, 2014 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhWhat did you just finish?
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold. I really enjoyed this! It's a light book, but it was funny and charming and I quite adored most of the new characters, particularly Tej's family. I loved Simon being bored, By just being By, Ivan's failed attempts at flirting, and the fate of ImpSec headquarters. I desperately want the backstory romance of Shiv and Udine, or their achieving Baron and Baronne status together. The trapped-in-a-cave ending was EXCELLENT trope-y goodness, and I highly approve. I'm very sad to have finished the series (well, I still have the two side-shoots, "Dreamweaver’s Dilemma" and "Ethan of Athos", to read, but no more Miles & co!), but that does mean I can now read the fanfic! Feel free to rec me your favorites.
East, West by Salman Rushdie. A book of short stories, three focusing on the "East", three focusing on the "West", and three mixed between the two. I think I prefer Rushdie in the short story format; at least, I liked this book much better than the novels of his I've read. I found the three "West" stories particularly interesting. Each one focused on an aspect of what you might call modern Western mythology (Shakespeare and Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Christopher Columbus), but twisted and turned around, and retold in his usual lyrical style. Very good.
What are you currently reading?
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai. A novel about family drama in Delhi, split between modern day and 1947.
Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson. The fourth in the "Longmire" mystery series, about a rural Wyoming sheriff. In this one, his past as a soldier in Vietnam becomes relevant when a young Vietnamese woman is found dead, abandoned by the side of the highway, with his photo in her purse.
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold. I really enjoyed this! It's a light book, but it was funny and charming and I quite adored most of the new characters, particularly Tej's family. I loved Simon being bored, By just being By, Ivan's failed attempts at flirting, and the fate of ImpSec headquarters. I desperately want the backstory romance of Shiv and Udine, or their achieving Baron and Baronne status together. The trapped-in-a-cave ending was EXCELLENT trope-y goodness, and I highly approve. I'm very sad to have finished the series (well, I still have the two side-shoots, "Dreamweaver’s Dilemma" and "Ethan of Athos", to read, but no more Miles & co!), but that does mean I can now read the fanfic! Feel free to rec me your favorites.
East, West by Salman Rushdie. A book of short stories, three focusing on the "East", three focusing on the "West", and three mixed between the two. I think I prefer Rushdie in the short story format; at least, I liked this book much better than the novels of his I've read. I found the three "West" stories particularly interesting. Each one focused on an aspect of what you might call modern Western mythology (Shakespeare and Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Christopher Columbus), but twisted and turned around, and retold in his usual lyrical style. Very good.
What are you currently reading?
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai. A novel about family drama in Delhi, split between modern day and 1947.
Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson. The fourth in the "Longmire" mystery series, about a rural Wyoming sheriff. In this one, his past as a soldier in Vietnam becomes relevant when a young Vietnamese woman is found dead, abandoned by the side of the highway, with his photo in her purse.
