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kitewithfish) wrote2022-01-26 02:50 pm
kitewithfish) wrote2022-01-26 02:50 pm
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What I have Read
I have finished Light from Uncommon Stars and it's lovely - it's doing a wonderful job of taking the metaphors and emotions associated with human experiences and changing only the facts underneath. Refugees are from another planet, rather than another country, but the feeling of being lost and adjust to their new surroundings - that's still deeply human. The end has its cake and eats it, too!
What I'm Reading
I have started uhhh, a bunch of things!
A friend recommended the audiobook of Garth Nix's Abhorsen series, because Tim Curry reads it! Thus, I am about a third of the way thru Sabriel and I'm delighted with the whole thing. He does a great job with the whole array of voices. It also scratches an itch - I haven't been doing much with audiobooks in the last few months and I am wondering if I should.
I started reading 17776: What Football will look like in the future, from the advice of another friend. It is one of the weirdest but also most sweet stories I have read. It's less one story than several, linked together from the viewpoint of several satellites who have gain sentience. It's... just fucking charming. But it also is a slight downer in that it seems to be taking the viewpoint that, faced with immortality, human beings would find time a burden to be endured. I have to say, I suspect we would just all get progressively weirder. I'm not sure if this is a book, really, but it's mostly text based and long, so I'm calling it a novella at least.
TV Horror - I'm on chapter 2, I have to finish chap 4 for Saturday.
What I'll Read Next
Several books I want to read have come out! And my book group has voted on books to read, so I am very pleased to get to read them.
The Missing Page (Cat Sebastien), Some by Virtue Fall (Alex Rowland), Iron Widow (Xiran Jay Zhao), and The City We Became (NK Jemisin)
In a slightly reading related thing, I realized that TikTok and social media in general have made me sink a lot of time into them that I... don't actually enjoy. I have given up a lot of social media, so maybe this is one that I should consider dropping as well.
Edit:
Totally forgot my Work in Progress post!
I finished the Scylla socks, and am now working on a pattern descriptively called "Damensocken mit Frontpatch" aka, women's socks with a front patch. These have a very odd construction, that adds a significant amount of engineering challenge to the pattern - you knit the socks without the front portion, and then you fill it in with a square later. Since I have gotten to the point where knitting one sock and then finishing the other might be simpler than trying to keep them both up to speed on the same set of needles, I am debating breaking my Never Finish One Sock First rule to just... finish one sock and see how they end up.
I have finished Light from Uncommon Stars and it's lovely - it's doing a wonderful job of taking the metaphors and emotions associated with human experiences and changing only the facts underneath. Refugees are from another planet, rather than another country, but the feeling of being lost and adjust to their new surroundings - that's still deeply human. The end has its cake and eats it, too!
What I'm Reading
I have started uhhh, a bunch of things!
A friend recommended the audiobook of Garth Nix's Abhorsen series, because Tim Curry reads it! Thus, I am about a third of the way thru Sabriel and I'm delighted with the whole thing. He does a great job with the whole array of voices. It also scratches an itch - I haven't been doing much with audiobooks in the last few months and I am wondering if I should.
I started reading 17776: What Football will look like in the future, from the advice of another friend. It is one of the weirdest but also most sweet stories I have read. It's less one story than several, linked together from the viewpoint of several satellites who have gain sentience. It's... just fucking charming. But it also is a slight downer in that it seems to be taking the viewpoint that, faced with immortality, human beings would find time a burden to be endured. I have to say, I suspect we would just all get progressively weirder. I'm not sure if this is a book, really, but it's mostly text based and long, so I'm calling it a novella at least.
TV Horror - I'm on chapter 2, I have to finish chap 4 for Saturday.
What I'll Read Next
Several books I want to read have come out! And my book group has voted on books to read, so I am very pleased to get to read them.
The Missing Page (Cat Sebastien), Some by Virtue Fall (Alex Rowland), Iron Widow (Xiran Jay Zhao), and The City We Became (NK Jemisin)
In a slightly reading related thing, I realized that TikTok and social media in general have made me sink a lot of time into them that I... don't actually enjoy. I have given up a lot of social media, so maybe this is one that I should consider dropping as well.
Edit:
Totally forgot my Work in Progress post!
I finished the Scylla socks, and am now working on a pattern descriptively called "Damensocken mit Frontpatch" aka, women's socks with a front patch. These have a very odd construction, that adds a significant amount of engineering challenge to the pattern - you knit the socks without the front portion, and then you fill it in with a square later. Since I have gotten to the point where knitting one sock and then finishing the other might be simpler than trying to keep them both up to speed on the same set of needles, I am debating breaking my Never Finish One Sock First rule to just... finish one sock and see how they end up.