What I'm Reading Wednesday
I really wish I had something interesting to write about in this journal, but my life at the moment is pretty spectacularly dull, especially now that I find myself stuck in the doldrums of unemployment again. x___x Honestly, the most interesting things about my life are the books I'm reading, and that's more to do with them than it is about me. I have been having some thoughts about writing, so I may end up waffling about them at some point, just as somewhere to throw them out, but I couldn't say they were in any way profound, or in any way interesting.
Oh, well. Books it is, then!
What I've just finished reading
The Pirates! In an Adventure With Communists, by Gideon Defoe. Third in the Pirates! series. These are cute, short, silly books that fill up a couple of hours. I do feel that with these books, there's a potential that's never quite fully realised - sometimes I think the humour could be a lot cleverer. I don't mean that in a snobby way, just that the daftness in these books is definitely not on a par with, say, Monty Python. In a lot of ways, I think the Aardman film does more with the overall idea than the books themselves do. That said, though, they do make me laugh quite a bit, and they are fun, and you can't really say fairer than that. I especially love the footnotes! :D
What I'm reading now
I've just started Clarissa Oakes, book fifteen in the Aubrey-Maturin series, so that's me three quarters of the way through (or will be, when I've finished it). So far, so good - I'm just halfway through chapter one and I've already hooted out loud with laughter! :) My plan is to have the whole series finished by the end of the year, so I'm going to have to up my game a bit, but I figure if I read one a week, I'll have the series finished by the end of December.
Also picking my way through two non-fiction books: Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812, aka The New Sexy Broke Book, because I can never have too many Philip Broke feels at any one time. ♥ Also still making my way slowly through Andrew Lambert's The Challenge, about the naval side of the War of 1812. I've been at this one for a fair few months now, mostly because I have the massive hardback version, so I can't really read it on the go. It sits on my bedside table and I read a wee bit more when I have a spare minute. But it is very good, I'll say that.
What I'm reading next
Well, after Clarissa Oakes, it's The Wine-Dark Sea, so... that. :)
And that's mostly it on the book front. Just out of interest, has anyone read Kidnapped and/or Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson? Because I'm going through a bit of a fangasm with these books the now, and the lack of internet fandom is killing me. Because OH GOOD GOD ALL MY FEELS FOR ALL THE CHARACTERS I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR, and I'm in dire need of someone to flail with (or just at, but preferably with). :D
Oh, well. Books it is, then!
What I've just finished reading
The Pirates! In an Adventure With Communists, by Gideon Defoe. Third in the Pirates! series. These are cute, short, silly books that fill up a couple of hours. I do feel that with these books, there's a potential that's never quite fully realised - sometimes I think the humour could be a lot cleverer. I don't mean that in a snobby way, just that the daftness in these books is definitely not on a par with, say, Monty Python. In a lot of ways, I think the Aardman film does more with the overall idea than the books themselves do. That said, though, they do make me laugh quite a bit, and they are fun, and you can't really say fairer than that. I especially love the footnotes! :D
What I'm reading now
I've just started Clarissa Oakes, book fifteen in the Aubrey-Maturin series, so that's me three quarters of the way through (or will be, when I've finished it). So far, so good - I'm just halfway through chapter one and I've already hooted out loud with laughter! :) My plan is to have the whole series finished by the end of the year, so I'm going to have to up my game a bit, but I figure if I read one a week, I'll have the series finished by the end of December.
Also picking my way through two non-fiction books: Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812, aka The New Sexy Broke Book, because I can never have too many Philip Broke feels at any one time. ♥ Also still making my way slowly through Andrew Lambert's The Challenge, about the naval side of the War of 1812. I've been at this one for a fair few months now, mostly because I have the massive hardback version, so I can't really read it on the go. It sits on my bedside table and I read a wee bit more when I have a spare minute. But it is very good, I'll say that.
What I'm reading next
Well, after Clarissa Oakes, it's The Wine-Dark Sea, so... that. :)
And that's mostly it on the book front. Just out of interest, has anyone read Kidnapped and/or Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson? Because I'm going through a bit of a fangasm with these books the now, and the lack of internet fandom is killing me. Because OH GOOD GOD ALL MY FEELS FOR ALL THE CHARACTERS I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR, and I'm in dire need of someone to flail with (or just at, but preferably with). :D