Reading Wednesday! Not Tuesday-that-pretends-it's-Wednesday!
Things I finished reading and need to tell you all about (and one I do!)
Chronicles of Legion 1-3, Darkness Over Cannae, Dr Fate 1-4, D'un monde à l'autre (La Quête d'Ewilan, tome 1), Eagles of Rome 2 & 3, Fragile Things, L'arabe du futur 1, Le Jardin des silences, Loki:Agent of Asgard #1-17, Magnus Chase and the Sword of Asgard, Prince of Cats, Saints 1, Sandman Overture 1-6, Secret Wars 1-7 (still ongoing), Spider-Gwen v1 1-5, Spider-Gwen v2 001, The Infinite Loop 1, The Red Pyramid, The Spire 1-4, Toil and Trouble 1-3, Tumulte à Rome
Carnets de thèse, by Tiphaine Rivière: This is a story about a young woman's attempt to get a PhD. It's by turn hilarious and moving and I enjoyed it. Her PhD is a slow descent into hell, as she struggles to keep on track and keep her life in some sort of order around it. It takes some (extremely well deserved, imo) potshots at the French educational systems along the way. "Sauf que moi, j'ai fait Sciences Po" ("Except I did Science Po" -- where Sciences Po = the most prestigious political science cursus in France) is a great burn in the context of its specific scene, for example, but calls back on an earlier scene in which the main character was afraid her life's work would amount to nothing/she wouldn't get any job offers on account of how she didn't go to Sciences Po. The narrative... kind of bears her out and that scene I quoted is part of how it does so. One thing I really liked was seeing the way Jeanne, the narrator, conceptualised her thesis: as a cathedral she was building and rebuilding and ever changing. That was cool. I'm unfamiliar with the subject of her thesis, but iirc the author was echoing said subject with this metaphor. Would reccomend (and I have indeed learned not to ask PhD students how the thesis is going).
ALSO I FINISHED CANON REVIEW FOR YULETIDE I'M A ROCKSTAR
Things I am currently reading, inasmuch as I'm reading anything
Books on hiatus: The Art of War, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Les Fleurs du Mal, Métronome, Rome's Revolution and The Grass-King's Concubine.
Still reading:
Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic, by Robert L. O’Connell
Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde
Romanitas, by Sophia McDougall
La quête d'Ewilan, Tome 2 : Les frontières de glace, by Pierre Bottero
Le lecteur de cadavre, by Antonio Garrido
I will get back to actively reading these now that yuletide canon review is done!
I did make so progress on Trickster, though and it looks like my earlier complaints about bad methodology (YOUR SAMPLE SIZES ARE SMALL YOUR METHODOLOGY IS BAD AN DYOU SHOULD FEEL BAD + DEFINE YOUR TERMS) aren't so much unfounded as potentially getting revised. Hyde has started going back on earlier unfounded statements and pointing out the fact taht they are unfounded/the terms are badly defined. We'll see how it improves.
Things I plan to read next
I dunno. I was going to go with L'armée furieuse, but then it proceeded to BLOW MY MIND with the reveal that la cahsse du roi Arthur/King Arthur's hunt and the Wild Hunt are the same thing, so I'm still reeling from that.
Books that I have already: Pyramids of London, by Andrea K Höst, Prisoner (Echo's Wolf, Book 1) (Werewolf Marines 2) by Lia Silver, Taking Stock by Scott Bartlett, February by Lisa Moore, The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan, The Skull Throne, by Peter V. Brett, Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, Le Graal de l'Inframonde by Vanessa Callico and Diana Callico.
Books that are out and that I haven't got: L'armée furieuse & Temps Glaciaires by Fred Vargas, Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, by Garth Nix, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Melting Stones and Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce, The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Beginning Place by Ursula Le Guin, Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, the last two books of Kate Eliott's Spiritwalker trilogy, The Missing Queen by Samhita Arni, Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, whatever's out of the Craft Sequence series, Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Elisabeth Vonarburg, Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr, Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter, Barbara Hambly's vampire series, Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw, The Idylls of the Queen by Phillys Ann Karr, Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar.
Books that aren't out yet (and when they're out): The Sleeping Life (Eferum, #2) by Andrea K. Höst (2015), Benjamin January #14 by Barbara Hambly (no idea), the Tris book by Tamora Pierce (2015), The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (caveat), Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer and whatever Jenny Dolfen's next project is.
Books what I'm not sure if I want to read them: City of Blades, by Robert Jackson Bennett: Still IDK.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/111530.html and has
comments over there.
Chronicles of Legion 1-3, Darkness Over Cannae, Dr Fate 1-4, D'un monde à l'autre (La Quête d'Ewilan, tome 1), Eagles of Rome 2 & 3, Fragile Things, L'arabe du futur 1, Le Jardin des silences, Loki:Agent of Asgard #1-17, Magnus Chase and the Sword of Asgard, Prince of Cats, Saints 1, Sandman Overture 1-6, Secret Wars 1-7 (still ongoing), Spider-Gwen v1 1-5, Spider-Gwen v2 001, The Infinite Loop 1, The Red Pyramid, The Spire 1-4, Toil and Trouble 1-3, Tumulte à Rome
Carnets de thèse, by Tiphaine Rivière: This is a story about a young woman's attempt to get a PhD. It's by turn hilarious and moving and I enjoyed it. Her PhD is a slow descent into hell, as she struggles to keep on track and keep her life in some sort of order around it. It takes some (extremely well deserved, imo) potshots at the French educational systems along the way. "Sauf que moi, j'ai fait Sciences Po" ("Except I did Science Po" -- where Sciences Po = the most prestigious political science cursus in France) is a great burn in the context of its specific scene, for example, but calls back on an earlier scene in which the main character was afraid her life's work would amount to nothing/she wouldn't get any job offers on account of how she didn't go to Sciences Po. The narrative... kind of bears her out and that scene I quoted is part of how it does so. One thing I really liked was seeing the way Jeanne, the narrator, conceptualised her thesis: as a cathedral she was building and rebuilding and ever changing. That was cool. I'm unfamiliar with the subject of her thesis, but iirc the author was echoing said subject with this metaphor. Would reccomend (and I have indeed learned not to ask PhD students how the thesis is going).
ALSO I FINISHED CANON REVIEW FOR YULETIDE I'M A ROCKSTAR
Things I am currently reading, inasmuch as I'm reading anything
Books on hiatus: The Art of War, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Les Fleurs du Mal, Métronome, Rome's Revolution and The Grass-King's Concubine.
Still reading:
Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic, by Robert L. O’Connell
Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde
Romanitas, by Sophia McDougall
La quête d'Ewilan, Tome 2 : Les frontières de glace, by Pierre Bottero
Le lecteur de cadavre, by Antonio Garrido
I will get back to actively reading these now that yuletide canon review is done!
I did make so progress on Trickster, though and it looks like my earlier complaints about bad methodology (YOUR SAMPLE SIZES ARE SMALL YOUR METHODOLOGY IS BAD AN DYOU SHOULD FEEL BAD + DEFINE YOUR TERMS) aren't so much unfounded as potentially getting revised. Hyde has started going back on earlier unfounded statements and pointing out the fact taht they are unfounded/the terms are badly defined. We'll see how it improves.
Things I plan to read next
I dunno. I was going to go with L'armée furieuse, but then it proceeded to BLOW MY MIND with the reveal that la cahsse du roi Arthur/King Arthur's hunt and the Wild Hunt are the same thing, so I'm still reeling from that.
Books that I have already: Pyramids of London, by Andrea K Höst, Prisoner (Echo's Wolf, Book 1) (Werewolf Marines 2) by Lia Silver, Taking Stock by Scott Bartlett, February by Lisa Moore, The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan, The Skull Throne, by Peter V. Brett, Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, Le Graal de l'Inframonde by Vanessa Callico and Diana Callico.
Books that are out and that I haven't got: L'armée furieuse & Temps Glaciaires by Fred Vargas, Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, by Garth Nix, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Melting Stones and Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce, The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Beginning Place by Ursula Le Guin, Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, the last two books of Kate Eliott's Spiritwalker trilogy, The Missing Queen by Samhita Arni, Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, whatever's out of the Craft Sequence series, Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Elisabeth Vonarburg, Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr, Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter, Barbara Hambly's vampire series, Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw, The Idylls of the Queen by Phillys Ann Karr, Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman and The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar.
Books that aren't out yet (and when they're out): The Sleeping Life (Eferum, #2) by Andrea K. Höst (2015), Benjamin January #14 by Barbara Hambly (no idea), the Tris book by Tamora Pierce (2015), The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (caveat), Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer and whatever Jenny Dolfen's next project is.
Books what I'm not sure if I want to read them: City of Blades, by Robert Jackson Bennett: Still IDK.
This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/111530.html and has
comments over there.