Wednesday books (on Thursday), plus Morwen update
What I've read lately:
Wizards, an anthology of wizard-related stories from the pile by the bedside. Lots of name authors, mostly enjoyable stories.
The Scalzi Subterranean Super Bundle, a collection of John Scalzi chapbooks in e-book format. Read on the iPad. Mostly short stories, plus book mostly about the business of writing, entitled You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop. Reasonably enjoyable, except for "The God Engines," which was depressingly peopled pretty much entirely by unsympathetic characters. Since that's very much not Scalzi's usual style, I kept wondering if there was some snarky joke that I was missing somewhere. If there was, I'm still missing it.
Not exactly a book, but I finished listening to a radio theater version of the seven Narnia books. These are produced by a Christian publisher, but they're quite faithful adaptations of the books, which is all I care about. They were my driving/exercise listening for a few weeks.
What I'm currently reading:
carried over from last week:
Battle Cry, by Leon Uris, as a kitchen book
The Silver Stallion, by James Branch Cabell, as a bathroom book. Another 30 or so pages to go.
Owlflight, by Mercedes Lackey, on the iPhone. I listened to this as an audiobook several years ago, but was in a mood to read the books as actual books. I'm about halfway through.
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients, edited by Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima. From guppiecat; it was the next bedside book I grabbed. Enjoyable animal anecdote fluff.
I'm currently listening to an amateur podcast of a favorite Harry Potter novel, Transfigurations, by Resonant. The actual reading is just fine, but the audio quality is poor enough that I keep thinking about giving up on it.
What I plan to read:
Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell, once I finish The Silver Stallion.
Owlsight and Owlknight, by Mercedes Lackey, on the iPhone.
More books from the pile by the bedside. I think Tanya Huff's The Wild Ways is next.
I think for car/exercise audio, I'm going to embark on a project of listening to all the Discworld books. That should keep me occupied for the next year or so.
Morwen is now two weeks post-surgery, and seems to be completely recovered. She had the stitches removed on Tuesday, and is eating normally. And today, as I was spinning at the wheel, she grabbed a big mouthful of roving, and tried to run away with it. Sheesh -- no learning behavior whatsoever.
Wizards, an anthology of wizard-related stories from the pile by the bedside. Lots of name authors, mostly enjoyable stories.
The Scalzi Subterranean Super Bundle, a collection of John Scalzi chapbooks in e-book format. Read on the iPad. Mostly short stories, plus book mostly about the business of writing, entitled You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop. Reasonably enjoyable, except for "The God Engines," which was depressingly peopled pretty much entirely by unsympathetic characters. Since that's very much not Scalzi's usual style, I kept wondering if there was some snarky joke that I was missing somewhere. If there was, I'm still missing it.
Not exactly a book, but I finished listening to a radio theater version of the seven Narnia books. These are produced by a Christian publisher, but they're quite faithful adaptations of the books, which is all I care about. They were my driving/exercise listening for a few weeks.
What I'm currently reading:
carried over from last week:
Battle Cry, by Leon Uris, as a kitchen book
The Silver Stallion, by James Branch Cabell, as a bathroom book. Another 30 or so pages to go.
Owlflight, by Mercedes Lackey, on the iPhone. I listened to this as an audiobook several years ago, but was in a mood to read the books as actual books. I'm about halfway through.
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes: And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients, edited by Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima. From guppiecat; it was the next bedside book I grabbed. Enjoyable animal anecdote fluff.
I'm currently listening to an amateur podcast of a favorite Harry Potter novel, Transfigurations, by Resonant. The actual reading is just fine, but the audio quality is poor enough that I keep thinking about giving up on it.
What I plan to read:
Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell, once I finish The Silver Stallion.
Owlsight and Owlknight, by Mercedes Lackey, on the iPhone.
More books from the pile by the bedside. I think Tanya Huff's The Wild Ways is next.
I think for car/exercise audio, I'm going to embark on a project of listening to all the Discworld books. That should keep me occupied for the next year or so.
Morwen is now two weeks post-surgery, and seems to be completely recovered. She had the stitches removed on Tuesday, and is eating normally. And today, as I was spinning at the wheel, she grabbed a big mouthful of roving, and tried to run away with it. Sheesh -- no learning behavior whatsoever.