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Wednesday Reading Meme 11/9/23
Nov. 8th, 2023 09:29 pmWhat I’ve Read:
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske -A Re-read, and this series continues to hold up. The final book came out yesterday – I’m picking mine up this weekend!
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe – A bit of stretch to count this as a book, but it’s influential enough that I include it on its own merits.
What I’m Reading:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J Miller Jr – I was a bit ill last week (not covid, tho I burned thru some tests checking) and this audiobook has been doing it for me. Broken into three parts, each a look an abbey in a post-nuclear future and how its attempt to preserve knowledge shapes its role in the wider world - I have finished the first, "Fiat Homo", and it has all the charm of a pre-climate change dystopia. It also has the usual flaws for sci-fi written by a white dude in the 1950s - 40% in and no women have spoken. But, dammit, I do so love visions of religion in the future that actually treat people like human beings rather than a collection of pious opinions.
What I’ll Read Next:
Dark Rise – CS Pacat – re-read before the next book comes out.
House of Leaves – Haven’t touch this since we started it back in early September, but the book group will eventually meet to talk about it.
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett Xing Book Club
Ninefox Gambit – Xing Book Club
When Women Were Dragons - Xing Book Club
Hugos Lingerers – Stuff I haven’t gotten to yet!
“The Difference Between Love and Time” Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed
“A Dream of Electric Mothers” Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
“Resurrection” Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World
“The Ghost of Workshops Past” S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
“D.I.Y.” John Wiswell
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske -A Re-read, and this series continues to hold up. The final book came out yesterday – I’m picking mine up this weekend!
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe – A bit of stretch to count this as a book, but it’s influential enough that I include it on its own merits.
What I’m Reading:
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter J Miller Jr – I was a bit ill last week (not covid, tho I burned thru some tests checking) and this audiobook has been doing it for me. Broken into three parts, each a look an abbey in a post-nuclear future and how its attempt to preserve knowledge shapes its role in the wider world - I have finished the first, "Fiat Homo", and it has all the charm of a pre-climate change dystopia. It also has the usual flaws for sci-fi written by a white dude in the 1950s - 40% in and no women have spoken. But, dammit, I do so love visions of religion in the future that actually treat people like human beings rather than a collection of pious opinions.
What I’ll Read Next:
Dark Rise – CS Pacat – re-read before the next book comes out.
House of Leaves – Haven’t touch this since we started it back in early September, but the book group will eventually meet to talk about it.
City of Blades – Robert Jackson Bennett Xing Book Club
Ninefox Gambit – Xing Book Club
When Women Were Dragons - Xing Book Club
Hugos Lingerers – Stuff I haven’t gotten to yet!
“The Difference Between Love and Time” Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed
“A Dream of Electric Mothers” Wole Talabi (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
“Resurrection” Ren Qing (Future Fiction/Science Fiction World
“The Ghost of Workshops Past” S.L. Huang (Tordotcom)
“D.I.Y.” John Wiswell
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
