it's Wednesday somewhere, right?
Since I know I'm going to be too busy tomorrow for a bookpost, here's one today instead.
• What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll read next?
I'm sort of between books at the moment, but I'm thinking of rereading Teresa Edgerton's Green Lion trilogy, which I haven't read in ages.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star (reread), The Madness Underneath: I still liked the first book, but I was deeply underwhelmed by the middle bookiness of the second book. If I'd known there was going to be that much cliffhanger, I'd've waited to read it until the third book was out.
A couple of Wodehouses (Very Good, Jeeves and Service with a Smile), which are always good when you're sick.
Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground: just as good as the first two. I was trying to hold off until the fourth one comes out this summer, so that I could read two in a row again, but I couldn't wait.
Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon, which was lots of fun; I will willingly read the next book (which I think is soon). Talking religious mice FTW!
• What did you start and not finish?
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: This has gotten raves over on Goodreads, and I'm not really sure why. The premise has potential (unemployed tech worker Clay gets job at mysterious bookstore and discovers that there's more to the store and its owner than there seems to be), and I liked the idea of weaving the old with the new, ancient paper books with modern technology. But the protagonist is cardboard, a blank slate I felt had no character of his own, and his friends are worse: Kat, every nerd's wet dream, the pretty, quirky Google employee who can code even better than Clay; Mat, genius ILM designer, able to do or make anything; Ashley, blonde PR exec who only becomes worthy of notice once she starts dating Mat; and Neel, self-made multimillionaire whose company does breast imaging. No, I don't mean mammograms; I mean designing lifelike breasts for video games. This was the point where I applied the "put it down for a night and see if I care enough in the morning to pick it back up" test, and guess what? It failed. If I were a teenage boy, I'm sure I'd have loved it. As an adult female geek...not so much.
Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King: I d'know, just seemed too much like YA-epic-fantasy-by-the-numbers. I gave it 100 pages and still didn't care what happened. Also, please do not name your roguish ex-thief character Han, okay? It's distracting.
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• What are you currently reading? What do you think you’ll read next?
I'm sort of between books at the moment, but I'm thinking of rereading Teresa Edgerton's Green Lion trilogy, which I haven't read in ages.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Maureen Johnson, The Name of the Star (reread), The Madness Underneath: I still liked the first book, but I was deeply underwhelmed by the middle bookiness of the second book. If I'd known there was going to be that much cliffhanger, I'd've waited to read it until the third book was out.
A couple of Wodehouses (Very Good, Jeeves and Service with a Smile), which are always good when you're sick.
Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Under Ground: just as good as the first two. I was trying to hold off until the fourth one comes out this summer, so that I could read two in a row again, but I couldn't wait.
Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon, which was lots of fun; I will willingly read the next book (which I think is soon). Talking religious mice FTW!
• What did you start and not finish?
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: This has gotten raves over on Goodreads, and I'm not really sure why. The premise has potential (unemployed tech worker Clay gets job at mysterious bookstore and discovers that there's more to the store and its owner than there seems to be), and I liked the idea of weaving the old with the new, ancient paper books with modern technology. But the protagonist is cardboard, a blank slate I felt had no character of his own, and his friends are worse: Kat, every nerd's wet dream, the pretty, quirky Google employee who can code even better than Clay; Mat, genius ILM designer, able to do or make anything; Ashley, blonde PR exec who only becomes worthy of notice once she starts dating Mat; and Neel, self-made multimillionaire whose company does breast imaging. No, I don't mean mammograms; I mean designing lifelike breasts for video games. This was the point where I applied the "put it down for a night and see if I care enough in the morning to pick it back up" test, and guess what? It failed. If I were a teenage boy, I'm sure I'd have loved it. As an adult female geek...not so much.
Cinda Williams Chima, The Demon King: I d'know, just seemed too much like YA-epic-fantasy-by-the-numbers. I gave it 100 pages and still didn't care what happened. Also, please do not name your roguish ex-thief character Han, okay? It's distracting.
This entry was originally posted at http://gwyneira.dreamwidth.org/221423.html. There are
comments on that post. Please comment here or there, your choice.