Reading Wednesday
Read: I learned while randomly bopping around Amazon that one of the romances that I'd heard good things about but wasn't willing to pay over $10 for (and my library hadn't picked up) was on sale. It was a close call, but the well done food porn and family feels of Sonali Dev's A Bollywood Affair was stronger than my dislike of the hero's fluctuating assholeness.
After that, I was in the mood to try another romance, so I read Jennifer Cruise's What the Lady Want. I did not enjoy it as much as I have some of her other books, at her worst she seems to at least be very readable. And some of the off notes might be the age of the book (about 20 years old).
Inspired by a post by YHLee, I pulled a favorite off the shelf, Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarter. In high school I thought of Huff as a budget Mercedes Lackey, and could line up every Huff series with an equivalent Lackey setting. With greater appreciation for certain things, I now find it the other way around, and would rather read a fluffy Huff (which this is) and adore her casual LGBT and polyamory.
Lawnchair left for Walnut Valley this morning, so I get to amuse myself. My spinning is currently halted by the loss of an end and I'm almost done with my current book, so I went down to the library to pick up what was on my hold shelf, including Volume 1 of Lumberjanes. As I was leaving the library, decided rather than sweat in my stuffy house, I'd rather just sit outside and read Lumberjanes. Which I did, enjoying the breezes and people watching. That was nice, and now I have to figure out how to get a hold of the rest of the series.
Reading: I skipped the two assassins books, and am currently reading Huff's The Quartered Sea. I'm about a chapter from finishing, so should be done this evening.
To Read: The other two books I picked up at the library are Naomi Novik's Uprooted (which was recommended the last time I had nothing to read), and Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
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After that, I was in the mood to try another romance, so I read Jennifer Cruise's What the Lady Want. I did not enjoy it as much as I have some of her other books, at her worst she seems to at least be very readable. And some of the off notes might be the age of the book (about 20 years old).
Inspired by a post by YHLee, I pulled a favorite off the shelf, Tanya Huff's Sing the Four Quarter. In high school I thought of Huff as a budget Mercedes Lackey, and could line up every Huff series with an equivalent Lackey setting. With greater appreciation for certain things, I now find it the other way around, and would rather read a fluffy Huff (which this is) and adore her casual LGBT and polyamory.
Lawnchair left for Walnut Valley this morning, so I get to amuse myself. My spinning is currently halted by the loss of an end and I'm almost done with my current book, so I went down to the library to pick up what was on my hold shelf, including Volume 1 of Lumberjanes. As I was leaving the library, decided rather than sweat in my stuffy house, I'd rather just sit outside and read Lumberjanes. Which I did, enjoying the breezes and people watching. That was nice, and now I have to figure out how to get a hold of the rest of the series.
Reading: I skipped the two assassins books, and am currently reading Huff's The Quartered Sea. I'm about a chapter from finishing, so should be done this evening.
To Read: The other two books I picked up at the library are Naomi Novik's Uprooted (which was recommended the last time I had nothing to read), and Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
This entry was originally posted at http://affreca.dreamwidth.org/374672.html. Please comment there using OpenID.