Reading meme
28/3/13 21:05Oh my gosh this meme cannot be resisted. (and I tried hard to, really).
What are you reading now?
I’m audiobook listening to Cotillion by Georgette Heyer. I’m fairly new to audiobooks and historically have found them quite hard to get into, the wrong reader can ruin a story for me, so I’m trying to be strategic about what I listen to. This is working really well at the moment though because I can close my eyes and listen all the way to work. I’m really enjoying the story, fairly often I’m giggling along as I listen. I’m loving all the cousins and Kitty’s earnestness and everyone’s general ineptitude. I’m rather fond of most of the characters. And all the “By gad, what a cad” talk. The bit about Kitty and Freddie hot footing around London with a guidebook that is rude about all the architecture had me in stitches and their decision not to visit the British Museum because a full third of it was dedicated to old books and another to manuscripts. It's all gold-dust really.
I’m also reading Fortress Malta by James Holland which has a nice approach of piecing together the events on Malta in WW2 from the anecdotes of islanders and military personnel. You get a bit about the person and what they were doing and then what they saw at that specific moment. I’m not too far in and it may get wearying as I go along but so far so good.
Finally I’m reading Zero at the Bone by Stacie Cassarino and being quietly blown away by her poetry. She does something so magically where she twists the poetic and the mundane together so they both mean something real. One of my favourites so far is In the Kitchen.
Except A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel, still going on that one. Could be a year or so in the making the way I keep reading everything else in the meantime. Even though it’s spectacular.
What did you just finish reading?
The Vor Game and Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold. Both of these books really sold me on Miles, I had been missing Cordelia too much before these I think. I definitely preferred The Vor Game for all the devastating Aral and Miles father/son snippets but Cetaganda was also intriguing in the way it exposed so many of Miles insecurities differently to how the previous books had done. I’ve been meaning to read this series for a long time and I’m really enjoying it so far.
What are you reading next?
Thinking of returning to The Tawny Man series to read The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb for my next dose of Fitz/Fool drawn-out agony. I can’t decide whether to dive back into this series or press on with Miles and Labyrinth (I think that's next because I’ve already read Ethan of Athos). Also I keep starting Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein and then not getting very far so maybe that.
What are you reading now?
I’m audiobook listening to Cotillion by Georgette Heyer. I’m fairly new to audiobooks and historically have found them quite hard to get into, the wrong reader can ruin a story for me, so I’m trying to be strategic about what I listen to. This is working really well at the moment though because I can close my eyes and listen all the way to work. I’m really enjoying the story, fairly often I’m giggling along as I listen. I’m loving all the cousins and Kitty’s earnestness and everyone’s general ineptitude. I’m rather fond of most of the characters. And all the “By gad, what a cad” talk. The bit about Kitty and Freddie hot footing around London with a guidebook that is rude about all the architecture had me in stitches and their decision not to visit the British Museum because a full third of it was dedicated to old books and another to manuscripts. It's all gold-dust really.
I’m also reading Fortress Malta by James Holland which has a nice approach of piecing together the events on Malta in WW2 from the anecdotes of islanders and military personnel. You get a bit about the person and what they were doing and then what they saw at that specific moment. I’m not too far in and it may get wearying as I go along but so far so good.
Finally I’m reading Zero at the Bone by Stacie Cassarino and being quietly blown away by her poetry. She does something so magically where she twists the poetic and the mundane together so they both mean something real. One of my favourites so far is In the Kitchen.
Except A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel, still going on that one. Could be a year or so in the making the way I keep reading everything else in the meantime. Even though it’s spectacular.
What did you just finish reading?
The Vor Game and Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold. Both of these books really sold me on Miles, I had been missing Cordelia too much before these I think. I definitely preferred The Vor Game for all the devastating Aral and Miles father/son snippets but Cetaganda was also intriguing in the way it exposed so many of Miles insecurities differently to how the previous books had done. I’ve been meaning to read this series for a long time and I’m really enjoying it so far.
What are you reading next?
Thinking of returning to The Tawny Man series to read The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb for my next dose of Fitz/Fool drawn-out agony. I can’t decide whether to dive back into this series or press on with Miles and Labyrinth (I think that's next because I’ve already read Ethan of Athos). Also I keep starting Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein and then not getting very far so maybe that.