Hanging out with the girl, and reading Wednesday, 01/13/16
wildpear was over tonight for our first Wednesday-night hangout of the year (she was feeling sick last week). She was here on Sunday night too, and on Sunday we said something about maybe getting back to our X-Files watch tonight since we'd finally been starting to see each other and have time to talk again, and might not feel as badly in need of catching up, but it didn't work out that way. ^_^ Instead, we talked about things going on with a family member, and how we're both doing with writing lately, and how adorable my cats are. (No conversation is complete without that last!) Plus some book talk, and some marvelous anecdotes from her about how Pumpkin (age 7)'s fannishness about Star Wars is manifesting. SO CUTE.
Pumpkin is a Princess Leia girl through and through, for the record. ^_-
And I sent
wildpear home with a heap of books for the first time in a while, so I'm looking forward to seeing what she thinks of those. (Specifically, she took Carry On, An Inheritance of Ashes, Ancillary Justice, Illuminae, Far From You, Seraphina, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here.)
What did you recently finish reading?
I finished Indexing Reflections tonight after
wildpear went home, and haven't had a chance to really sit back and think about it yet. I enjoyed it! ^_^ It went into interesting places that were opened up by the first book, and left some new open places in case Seanan's ever in a position to write more, but it wrapped up tidily. I still wish I'd gotten to read it as it was being serialized, but it was worth the wait.
What are you currently reading?
While waiting for Indexing Reflections over the past couple of days, I finally made some more progress on the Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep anthology (which I've been "reading" since May, but hadn't touched in months) and also started Wild Wolves We Have Known, the collection of essays by wolf biologists published by the International Wolf Center.
Short fiction and non-fiction are no substitutes for novels for me, so I'll keep picking away at those books in and around reading other things.
What do you think you'll read next?
I've been meaning to reread Newsflesh* for ages, in the name of touching base with the canon/getting re-immersed in the voices (and of course also because they're my favorite books and it's been a couple years since I reread them right through), and kept putting it off because of my terrifying to-read-for-the-first-time list. But I've decided in the last few days that I'm gonna take a break from focusing on either of the two deeply weird Newsflesh AUs that've been getting most of my attention for the last year or so (both of which are in third person POV) and spend time with shorter, more canon-compliant WsIP (and maybe the other AU), so now seems like the time to dive back into the source material.
(I may expand on this in a writing post sometime soon, but that's the gist of the situation. I love my AU worlds, especially the mers, but...it's been hard going.)
*Specifically the trilogy; I want to reread the novellas too, but at this point it makes sense to do that when the anthology comes out in a few months. Anthology!!!
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