wednesday reads (for some value of wednesday that looks like thursday)
So I was going to post yesterday afternoon, but I went mountain biking instead. Oops?
What I've just finished reading: Not really a book, but I finished the Kings of Kings podcast series from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. The third part was about Xerxes and Alexander the Great, which rekindled my interest in Tarr's Lord of the Two Lands, so I picked it up again and read another chapter, and then re-abandoned it. Sorry!
What I'm reading now: Still reading the essay collection Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue, though I can't take much of it at once because it's so very middle grade oriented. Maybe I would have liked it more at age 10. This does make it painfully clear that we really don't know much about the women of the era, as all our sources only cared about the men.
After finishing the podcast I started up on Underwood and Flinch: Blood and Smoke by Mike Bennett. This is the sequel to Underwood and Flinch, though in a sense it's a prequel: David, in 2005, listens to the audiofiles of Underwood in the 1940s telling David's father Arthur, his previous guardian, about his experiences in the early 18th century. Each time-layer of the story is present to some degree, which makes it a far richer story. I'm about 2/3 through.
I have also started reading Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo. I put the Gutenberg version on my phone many months ago, when it was recommended on FFA as a book with a trope I particularly love in fiction (which I'm not going to describe here as it's a spoiler), poked at it, but it's quite dense. But I recently noticed it's in this year's Yuletide tagset, so I started it up again, and - after the somewhat odd beginning, I think I quite like it! We shall see if I stick with it. Also, there are these amazing woodcut illustrations.
What I'm reading next: *looks at backlog, sighs in despair*
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What I've just finished reading: Not really a book, but I finished the Kings of Kings podcast series from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. The third part was about Xerxes and Alexander the Great, which rekindled my interest in Tarr's Lord of the Two Lands, so I picked it up again and read another chapter, and then re-abandoned it. Sorry!
What I'm reading now: Still reading the essay collection Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue, though I can't take much of it at once because it's so very middle grade oriented. Maybe I would have liked it more at age 10. This does make it painfully clear that we really don't know much about the women of the era, as all our sources only cared about the men.
After finishing the podcast I started up on Underwood and Flinch: Blood and Smoke by Mike Bennett. This is the sequel to Underwood and Flinch, though in a sense it's a prequel: David, in 2005, listens to the audiofiles of Underwood in the 1940s telling David's father Arthur, his previous guardian, about his experiences in the early 18th century. Each time-layer of the story is present to some degree, which makes it a far richer story. I'm about 2/3 through.
I have also started reading Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo. I put the Gutenberg version on my phone many months ago, when it was recommended on FFA as a book with a trope I particularly love in fiction (which I'm not going to describe here as it's a spoiler), poked at it, but it's quite dense. But I recently noticed it's in this year's Yuletide tagset, so I started it up again, and - after the somewhat odd beginning, I think I quite like it! We shall see if I stick with it. Also, there are these amazing woodcut illustrations.
What I'm reading next: *looks at backlog, sighs in despair*
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
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