What I'm Reading Wednesday
The best thing I have been reading today is, of course, Twitter: I woke up and read the night's Twitter coverage of Wendy Davis's stand about SB5 in Texas, and then throughout the day Twitter brought me the SCOTUS decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. It was a whole day of trying not to cry while reading Twitter.
But also, some books!
Just finished:
Good Night, Mr. Tom, by Michelle Magorian. A long-overdue reread, and for the first time I felt confident that I understood the timeline of the book (it spans about 18 months including the postscript). Also, I love this book a lot.
The Boy's Tale, by Margaret Frazer. A murder mystery set in a fictional convent in 1436, centering on Edmund and Jasper Tudor, whose Wikipedia pages I spent a lot of time peering curiously at in between actually reading the book. It's also really fascinating to me to read a story about a woman who will never have a romantic interest, and who continues to submit herself to rigorous religious discipline.
And, as a bonus, having read these two books, I could enter them in Todd Wheeler's 7th Annual Virtual Summer Reading Program, which means they represent a donation to the Prison Reading Program, too!
Reading now:
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar, which so far features lush imagery, a fascinating not-European fantasy milieu, and what seems to be an austistic character in the person of Jevick's older brother Jom. All this and the promise of "that seductive necromancy, reading." I am thoroughly intrigued!
I'm also still slowly listening my way through A Short History of Nearly Everything. We're up to particle physics!
Reading next:
After five or ten years of having it recommended to me, I'm finally going to give Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman's Road a whirl!
But also, some books!
Just finished:
Good Night, Mr. Tom, by Michelle Magorian. A long-overdue reread, and for the first time I felt confident that I understood the timeline of the book (it spans about 18 months including the postscript). Also, I love this book a lot.
The Boy's Tale, by Margaret Frazer. A murder mystery set in a fictional convent in 1436, centering on Edmund and Jasper Tudor, whose Wikipedia pages I spent a lot of time peering curiously at in between actually reading the book. It's also really fascinating to me to read a story about a woman who will never have a romantic interest, and who continues to submit herself to rigorous religious discipline.
And, as a bonus, having read these two books, I could enter them in Todd Wheeler's 7th Annual Virtual Summer Reading Program, which means they represent a donation to the Prison Reading Program, too!
Reading now:
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar, which so far features lush imagery, a fascinating not-European fantasy milieu, and what seems to be an austistic character in the person of Jevick's older brother Jom. All this and the promise of "that seductive necromancy, reading." I am thoroughly intrigued!
I'm also still slowly listening my way through A Short History of Nearly Everything. We're up to particle physics!
Reading next:
After five or ten years of having it recommended to me, I'm finally going to give Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman's Road a whirl!