Wednesday really did not realise how many pictorial histories of spectacles there are

Feb 27, 2019 17:51


What I read
Finished The Underwater Ballroom Society, which was, as is the wont of anthologies and collections, a bit of a mixed bag.
It did, however, lead me to Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma (the latter having had a story in the foregoing), Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night (2018), which is modern London plus magic of a rather quiet and intricate kind, with queerness and poly, and I will look out for more from these authors.
DB Borton, Second Coming: Elvis. Extraterrestrials. Dogs. (2017). This was okay, but the sort of book where one feels the author was perhaps having more fun writing it? I like Borton's mysteries (just under a year ago I did a massive re-read: there are two late entries in the Cat Caliban series that are not available as ebooks but only as rather pricey dead-tree versions that I'd still like to get hold of). This was sf/satire.
Emma Newman, Planetfall (2015). I had been havering a while over this (and any sequels), having enjoyed her Split Worlds sequence, but these seemed quite different, as in, hard sf, and in narrative tone. But this was really very good.
Stephanie Burgis, Thornbound (2019), sequel to Snowspelled: very good but, while I see that the plot is about piling one impending disaster upon another, it all felt a bit relentless and rushed.
On the go
Mick Finlay, Arrowood (2017), which was a freebie, and one I may not finish. It is late-Victorian noir, set in the mean, or rather, deeply squalid, streets of Southwark in the 1890s. It's not quite working for me, somehow.
Amanda Downum, The Poison Court: A story of Erisín (2019): slow-burning palace intrigue and diplomatic shenanigans, a definite change of pace.
Up next
Probably Emma Newman, After Atlas. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2889468.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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