Wednesday is hey-nonny-nonny Maytime, ding-a-ling-a-ling
What I read
Finished Approaching Eye Level, which is a series of personal essays, and found it wonderful - about relationships with individuals and movements and groups and all manner of things and so amazingly written.
The second Ianthe Jerrold, Dead Man's Quarry (1930), which I was finding somewhat stronger than the previous mystery (though, honestly, signs of doing that thing where the 'tec falls in love, or starts to, with some woman involved in the plot and then she falls for someone else, i.e. just like the pre-Amanda Campions...) but then it suddenly got very melodramatic and people shooting guns, and a denouement that perhaps wasn't entirely out of the blue, because, well, definitively identifying tattoos... but as with the previous, perhaps just a little too much convoluted masquerade. I would, however, be quite interested to see any of her other, non-murder-related, works.
Becky Chambers, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014) which had many virtues, and I think I would be interested in seeing her future work, but somehow I wanted a bit more of a plot, especially when a whole lot of things were set up that looked as though they might be going to pay off in plot tensions, but didn't really. Perhaps one should just classify it as somewhere between picaresque and soap opera, in a space setting.
I've also skim-read the book I was reading to blurb (it worked so much better on the tablet than the Kobo) and, relief, feel quite able to make yay-type noises (and How Cool Is It that at least one chapter specifically remarks about The Thruster interrogating the phenomena from the Wrong Perspective, which I have been saying for yonks? Not just me, then.)
On the go
I've started no 2 in The Order of the Air, Steel Blues (2013), v good so far.
Still The Player's Boy for the trennels readthrough.
Up next
I probably need to do some rereads, with a view to sounding like I can actually remember the characters and plots and any other necessary information on my Wiscon panels. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2271022.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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