Reading Wednesday!
• What are you currently reading?
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill - I picked this up on a whim at the library. So far it's a fairly quick read & extremely well-written. I watch the PBS News Hour every evening, and I <3 Ifill. It's awesome knowing that she's a good writer, too.
This book is also helping me fill a gap in my knowledge about black politicians in the US.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Moar Basara manga (volumes 18-21) - AUGH so fun/awesome. Everything's tipping toward war & I want them to find other solutions. I liked the arc including the Purple Lady (I think?! At this point things are already hazy lol).
Ash #1: The Secret History by Mary Gentle. I'd read this post by
starlady a while ago. On Friday evening, I found this book while perusing a used bookstore with friends, & kind of devoured it over the weekend.
It's a very realistic look at medieval war? But through the POV of a woman knight who hears a voice (which she refers to as "her saint") that guides her through battles. She's a mercenary who commands her own troops, & is a total badass.
TW for rape.
I was upset to get to the end & then find that my library doesn't carry the other three volumes in this quartet! >_<
Luckily, my employer's library has it, although it's the UK version, which is 1,000+ pages, so I might not be toting that to/from work, ^^;;
I did buy Rats and Gargoyles from her at the same time, so that may tide me over.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
WELL, the rest of the Basara series is waiting for me at the library, so I expect I'll pick that up in one swoop & plow through it, likely this weekend when I go Up North to hang out with my family? Plus other books hanging around.
Last weekend we set up a table of The Boyfriend's at the foot of our bed. My peace lily looks really handsome on it, but I also took the opportunity to create a stack of "books I'm reading right now." Seeing them all in a stack makes me want to finish them all! So maybe I'll turn back toward stuff I've started but not yet finished (The Other Boleyn Girl, the Marquez, Kokoro, etc.).
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The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill - I picked this up on a whim at the library. So far it's a fairly quick read & extremely well-written. I watch the PBS News Hour every evening, and I <3 Ifill. It's awesome knowing that she's a good writer, too.
This book is also helping me fill a gap in my knowledge about black politicians in the US.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Moar Basara manga (volumes 18-21) - AUGH so fun/awesome. Everything's tipping toward war & I want them to find other solutions. I liked the arc including the Purple Lady (I think?! At this point things are already hazy lol).
Ash #1: The Secret History by Mary Gentle. I'd read this post by
starlady a while ago. On Friday evening, I found this book while perusing a used bookstore with friends, & kind of devoured it over the weekend.
It's a very realistic look at medieval war? But through the POV of a woman knight who hears a voice (which she refers to as "her saint") that guides her through battles. She's a mercenary who commands her own troops, & is a total badass.
TW for rape.
I was upset to get to the end & then find that my library doesn't carry the other three volumes in this quartet! >_<
Luckily, my employer's library has it, although it's the UK version, which is 1,000+ pages, so I might not be toting that to/from work, ^^;;
I did buy Rats and Gargoyles from her at the same time, so that may tide me over.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
WELL, the rest of the Basara series is waiting for me at the library, so I expect I'll pick that up in one swoop & plow through it, likely this weekend when I go Up North to hang out with my family? Plus other books hanging around.
Last weekend we set up a table of The Boyfriend's at the foot of our bed. My peace lily looks really handsome on it, but I also took the opportunity to create a stack of "books I'm reading right now." Seeing them all in a stack makes me want to finish them all! So maybe I'll turn back toward stuff I've started but not yet finished (The Other Boleyn Girl, the Marquez, Kokoro, etc.).
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth. You can comment here or there.
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> comments on this post at Dreamwidth.