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ironymaiden9. Your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next.
with the Kindle, i do more hopping from book to book - i'm not carrying one book, i'm carrying dozens at any time with the ability to get more if there's signal.
this morning, Little Women. i've been thinking about it lately and wanted to revisit. (i am amused that i never liked their amateur theatricals when i was younger, and i still find them tiresome today. your stupid plays are stupid Jo. i know that's intentional, but i am not required to slog through those pages. or the early parts about Amy...hey, polka with Laurie! introducing old Aunt March to novels! okay!)
last partial read, Deathless. i want to like this book so much, but i feel right now like it should be called Charmless. (for those who have read it, i'm at the point just after Ivan has shown up.) Valente has beautiful prose and really interesting ideas, but she can't make me care about these characters or understand their motivations. (or at least our heroine, who is empty inside and boring and kind of a puppet. maybe i want to read the book from her husband's pov.) i love the setting and the concept. i'll probably try again some other time when i have more spoons to use on it; for now, meh.
last complete read, Magic Under Glass, which is a bit of fluff about an immigrant girl in a mildly steampunky fake England and a clockwork man who may not be just clockwork. mystery! romance! i am generally not in favor of novels with fairies in them, but since most of them were dead and stuffed that was okay.
next? TBD. in the past i took a notepad to the Philip K Dick Awards and marked down which readings i liked and why in order to get them later. this year, i'm still taking the notepad, but i'm also taking the Kindle to hopefully buy things i like on the spot.
with the Kindle, i do more hopping from book to book - i'm not carrying one book, i'm carrying dozens at any time with the ability to get more if there's signal.
this morning, Little Women. i've been thinking about it lately and wanted to revisit. (i am amused that i never liked their amateur theatricals when i was younger, and i still find them tiresome today. your stupid plays are stupid Jo. i know that's intentional, but i am not required to slog through those pages. or the early parts about Amy...hey, polka with Laurie! introducing old Aunt March to novels! okay!)
last partial read, Deathless. i want to like this book so much, but i feel right now like it should be called Charmless. (for those who have read it, i'm at the point just after Ivan has shown up.) Valente has beautiful prose and really interesting ideas, but she can't make me care about these characters or understand their motivations. (or at least our heroine, who is empty inside and boring and kind of a puppet. maybe i want to read the book from her husband's pov.) i love the setting and the concept. i'll probably try again some other time when i have more spoons to use on it; for now, meh.
last complete read, Magic Under Glass, which is a bit of fluff about an immigrant girl in a mildly steampunky fake England and a clockwork man who may not be just clockwork. mystery! romance! i am generally not in favor of novels with fairies in them, but since most of them were dead and stuffed that was okay.
next? TBD. in the past i took a notepad to the Philip K Dick Awards and marked down which readings i liked and why in order to get them later. this year, i'm still taking the notepad, but i'm also taking the Kindle to hopefully buy things i like on the spot.
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Date: 2011-04-22 03:33 am (UTC)Extra weird because I have just finished "The Secret History of Moscow" which also has Koschei as a character.