i'm finally reading the wake by paul kingsnorth, which was shortlong-listed for the man booker prize in, um, 2014.

(todayiamadaisy inspired me with her yearly reading of the short-listed novels, so in 2014 i decided to attempt it. so far i've managed to finish a grand total of one - the blazing world by siri hustvedt. i abandoned both the lives of others by ( Read more... )

people who like georgette heyer, tell me something that is better than 'regency buck' which i picked up at the library because it was sticking out oddly from the rack and i thought, oh people i know like her stuff; i should investigate. right now i am on page 134 and thinking there is something very wrong with you all because i want to set everyone ( Read more... )

last year i read the killing moon by n.k. jemisin and i liked it very much, so i added the second book of the duology to my reading list. on saturday i went to the farther, bigger library intending to get three books and coming home with eleven (some sort of fugue state, i think), one of which was the shadowed sun. i started it yesterday and have ( Read more... )

i've just finished reading (literally put down the book, opened the laptop) the word exchange by alena graedon. yes, good, excellent, very. although i found that there is something indefinably lacking in the narrative-not the story itself, but the way in which it is told?-still i gulped it over two days. it's the first book in a long time that i ( Read more... )

there are things i want to write about but i'm too upset about them, so instead i will write about shades of milk and honey by mary robinette kowal. it is basically pride and prejudice plus sense and sensibility plus magic ( Read more... )

1. it is very windy tonight. that is probably bad in some respects, but i like hearing it woosh through the trees and across the water heater flue ( Read more... )

i started this one last year and was inspired by todayiamadaisy to post it.

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how odd that i am coincidentally reading two novels that involve the repair of clocks (/horology). how odd that as soon as i saw the cover of peter carey's the chemistry of tears, i thought: i know that chin ( Read more... )

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finally, after three weeks, i've finished reading the tome that is stella miles franklin, a biography by jill roe. it's a great brick of a book and i'm not sure i could've made it all the way through if i hadn't already had such a consuming interest in miles franklin. there's an enormous amount of information and roe's style is very dry, except in ( Read more... )