What I just finished reading:
brunelleschi's dome which i enjoyed because a. architecture! b. renaissance engineering! and c. it's just very entertainingly written. but i really wanted some modern diagrams because a lot of the descriptions of how the dome was built were hard to visualize.

What I am reading now:
alif the unseen by g willow wilson ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the dark queens: the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world which honestly was probably historical fiction as much as straight up historical because there just isn't that much that survived about the two queens. i should name them, huh - brunhild and fredegund, who weren't allowed to sit on a throne because ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
going postal which i thoroughly enjoyed - it's terry pratchett and it's about the post office so i was kind of predisposed to like it - even tho everything seemed to happen at the end. it kind of felt like i was waiting and waiting and waiting to see what happened and suddenly... it was over. i liked how it ended tho ( Read more... )

pretend it's still wednesday and i didn't just dump a month and a half update on you.

What I just finished reading:
eva moves the furniture which i ended up mostly liking altho i kept reading it thinking you've got ghosts! because it's obvious that's who the companions are. the main character meets a nice jewish boy who isn't just "the jewish ( Read more... )

pretend it's wednesday. >.<

What I just finished reading:
a memory called empire which i really liked even tho ( spoiler. )

happy humpday, o my flist. all day i thought it was thursday. >.< but no. wednesday. time for reading meme!

What I just finished reading:
phantomarine vol 1, by claire niebergall, the first collection of the web comic of the same name. it's so good and i love the art and there's a fluffy samoyed named katja and because i blew through vol 1 ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
jewish futures which i mostly enjoyed. i didn't love the non-trivial number of stories that depended on a certain amount of "jews as a wildly discriminated-against people" - are there seriously no other ways to write about jews in space besides "everyone on earth hated us and wanted us dead so we had to escape to ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the fairy bargains of prospect hill which i enjoyed altho the vague time period continued to kind of annoy me. i liked the world of the fae - it's beautiful and magical and cruel and nothing grows there that wasn't acquired from humans. if historical fantasy with the fair folk in america is your thing i recommend it ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
nemesis, which i mostly liked. one of the things i like about the series is that even tho it's set in ancient rome people live very recognizable lives. not just in the sense that everyone everywhere at pretty much every point in history has had at least one family squabble, and you can like one sibling but lose ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the great kosher meat war of 1902 which i enjoyed because seriously, MEAT WAR. which mostly meant a very large, very organized body of immigrant jewish women who boycotted and rioted and made a lot of noise because the price of kosher meat went up higher than they could afford. there's very little biographical data ( Read more... )