Wednesday Reading Meme
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osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
It’s been awfully cold out, so this has been the week of Reading Things That Have Languished on My Kindle for Lo These Many Moons. I finished Jerome K. Jerome’s Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, and have decided this will be my last foray into Jerome. He’s mildly amusing, but not much else.
Also H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy, which I enjoyed, although I must confess the main feeling that it aroused in me was a burning desire to reread John Scalzi’s retelling Fuzzy Nation. Piper’s version is heavier on the gunslinger space-western stuff than Scalzi’s and lighter on the “let’s see if the Fuzzies can recognize themselves in mirrors!” cognitive testing, and the cognitive stuff is really what I’m there for.
What I’m Reading Now
Courtney Milan's The Heiress Effect. There are things I want to say about this book, but my brain is currently mush from a nine-hour shift, so I guess I'll just say I'm enjoying it so far, especially the heroine's plot to make herself the laughingstock of all of Cambridge (for reasons that mostly make sense!).
What I Plan to Read Next
Slavena has renewed her campaign to convince me to read Michael Ende’s Momo, so maybe that?
It’s been awfully cold out, so this has been the week of Reading Things That Have Languished on My Kindle for Lo These Many Moons. I finished Jerome K. Jerome’s Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, and have decided this will be my last foray into Jerome. He’s mildly amusing, but not much else.
Also H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy, which I enjoyed, although I must confess the main feeling that it aroused in me was a burning desire to reread John Scalzi’s retelling Fuzzy Nation. Piper’s version is heavier on the gunslinger space-western stuff than Scalzi’s and lighter on the “let’s see if the Fuzzies can recognize themselves in mirrors!” cognitive testing, and the cognitive stuff is really what I’m there for.
What I’m Reading Now
Courtney Milan's The Heiress Effect. There are things I want to say about this book, but my brain is currently mush from a nine-hour shift, so I guess I'll just say I'm enjoying it so far, especially the heroine's plot to make herself the laughingstock of all of Cambridge (for reasons that mostly make sense!).
What I Plan to Read Next
Slavena has renewed her campaign to convince me to read Michael Ende’s Momo, so maybe that?
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Date: 2015-02-19 10:04 am (UTC)(may i interest you in a romance novel rec for a different author (http://egelantier.livejournal.com/168825.html)? she's more conventional than milan, but they do share some structural and thematic tricks).
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