Wednesday Reading Update
What I Just Finished Reading
I have finished just TWO BOOKS this week!
(That is because this was the week Dira's new Every Marine a Wolfbrother fic came out, and also thehoyden's new Sid/Geno and also some Teen Wolf longfic of fairly OK quality. I guess?)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Academic who gets hired to Shepard some time traveling tourists to a lecture by Coleridge gets stranded because there are MACHINATIONS AFOOT by his employer and by the (ancient?) Egyptian priest-magician folk who want to sabotage England. There is additional time travel, impersonation, secret societies, research, poetry, beggar courts, sorcery, girls dressed as boys, and a body/psyche-swapping murderer.
19th century adventure alternate history Egypt England fantasy Fantasy Masterworks fiction historical historical fantasy historical fiction horror London magic mythology novel paperback Philip K. Dick Award read science fiction secret history sf sff signed speculative fiction steampunk time travel
Totally exciting and very fun - definitely deserves that historical fantasy tag - it has a touch of the (historical) urban fantasy, really. I loooove time travel and this book used it in ways (multiple! ways!) that delighted me. Yay for utilizing your stuff! I also really dug the way magic and science and everything worked in their own little bubbles. The horror components were creeepy good. Good creepy. I think I'll be checking out some other books of Tim Powers in the future! [4 star!]
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Our Story is about a young girl, Minli, who goes adventuring to find the Man in the Moon and ask him a question (also to bring fortune to her family). She many interesting people/creatures including many from the folktales her father told her and from the stories of all the people she met too. Includes talking goldfish, dragons, peaches, monkeys, magic, mountains, twins, tigers, and a king.
adventure chapter book children children's children's fiction children's literature China Chinese Chinese folklore dragons fairy tale fairy tales family fantasy fiction folklore folktale folktales fortune friendship goldfish journey juvenile fiction Newbery Newbery Honor quest stories storytelling to-read young adult
I was totally delighted with this book. It's such a quick read since it's aimed at a younger set, but it's still so satisfying. I loved how interconnected the girl's journey and the stories her father told her were. Things that happened in the tales happened IRL or affected what happened in real life and they all ended up fitting together in this whole longer bigger story Minli was building with her journey. Supercool. Oooh, and it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's lit in 2010! I'd forgotten that! (I *love* the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Good stuff.)
What I'm Reading Now
I am kiiiinda reading The Science of the Discworld by Terry Pratchett (and Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart) but not really since I am skipping a lot of the science and only reading the Discworld-y bits. >.>
It's so SAD to be reading something Terry wrote back in the day. It keeps reminding me of how he and his writing are now.
Mostly right now I'm working on my Halloween costume (fingers crossed it comes out well!) and doing non-booky things. I'm feeling a bit lost without more books in my life though, so I'll be picking up some new ones soon!
What I'm Reading Next
??? ??? ???
I don't knowwwwwwwww /o\
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss?
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier?
Fated by Benedict Jacka?
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope?
The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg?
I have choices! I just don't have a DECISION. Though if I wait much longer (say... til Oct 29) it will be time for Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone (he who wrote Three Parts Dead) to come out and then BOOM. Decision made!
Also at http://isweedan.dreamwidth.org/119584.html -
comment(s) there.
I have finished just TWO BOOKS this week!
(That is because this was the week Dira's new Every Marine a Wolfbrother fic came out, and also thehoyden's new Sid/Geno and also some Teen Wolf longfic of fairly OK quality. I guess?)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Academic who gets hired to Shepard some time traveling tourists to a lecture by Coleridge gets stranded because there are MACHINATIONS AFOOT by his employer and by the (ancient?) Egyptian priest-magician folk who want to sabotage England. There is additional time travel, impersonation, secret societies, research, poetry, beggar courts, sorcery, girls dressed as boys, and a body/psyche-swapping murderer.
19th century adventure alternate history Egypt England fantasy Fantasy Masterworks fiction historical historical fantasy historical fiction horror London magic mythology novel paperback Philip K. Dick Award read science fiction secret history sf sff signed speculative fiction steampunk time travel
Totally exciting and very fun - definitely deserves that historical fantasy tag - it has a touch of the (historical) urban fantasy, really. I loooove time travel and this book used it in ways (multiple! ways!) that delighted me. Yay for utilizing your stuff! I also really dug the way magic and science and everything worked in their own little bubbles. The horror components were creeepy good. Good creepy. I think I'll be checking out some other books of Tim Powers in the future! [4 star!]
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Our Story is about a young girl, Minli, who goes adventuring to find the Man in the Moon and ask him a question (also to bring fortune to her family). She many interesting people/creatures including many from the folktales her father told her and from the stories of all the people she met too. Includes talking goldfish, dragons, peaches, monkeys, magic, mountains, twins, tigers, and a king.
adventure chapter book children children's children's fiction children's literature China Chinese Chinese folklore dragons fairy tale fairy tales family fantasy fiction folklore folktale folktales fortune friendship goldfish journey juvenile fiction Newbery Newbery Honor quest stories storytelling to-read young adult
I was totally delighted with this book. It's such a quick read since it's aimed at a younger set, but it's still so satisfying. I loved how interconnected the girl's journey and the stories her father told her were. Things that happened in the tales happened IRL or affected what happened in real life and they all ended up fitting together in this whole longer bigger story Minli was building with her journey. Supercool. Oooh, and it won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's lit in 2010! I'd forgotten that! (I *love* the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Good stuff.)
What I'm Reading Now
I am kiiiinda reading The Science of the Discworld by Terry Pratchett (and Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart) but not really since I am skipping a lot of the science and only reading the Discworld-y bits. >.>
It's so SAD to be reading something Terry wrote back in the day. It keeps reminding me of how he and his writing are now.
Mostly right now I'm working on my Halloween costume (fingers crossed it comes out well!) and doing non-booky things. I'm feeling a bit lost without more books in my life though, so I'll be picking up some new ones soon!
What I'm Reading Next
??? ??? ???
I don't knowwwwwwwww /o\
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss?
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier?
Fated by Benedict Jacka?
The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope?
The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg?
I have choices! I just don't have a DECISION. Though if I wait much longer (say... til Oct 29) it will be time for Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone (he who wrote Three Parts Dead) to come out and then BOOM. Decision made!
Also at http://isweedan.dreamwidth.org/119584.html -
comment(s) there.