Wednesday Reading Meme
Aug. 28th, 2019 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerI have not gotten a whole lot of reading done this week because I’ve been trying to finish part one of Honeytrap by the end of August (POWER THROUGH, SELF!), but I’m still trucking along.
What I’ve Just Finished Reading
Tamara Allen’s The Road to Silver Plume, which I enjoyed, but perhaps not enough to buy the second when it comes out? We’ll see how I feel about it when it actually comes out.
What I’m Reading Now
I’ve begun Ella Cheever Thayer’s Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes, which is a romance from the 1870s (I believe) about two telegraph operators who fall in love by telegraph. So far they are flirting up a storm over the wire and it’s delightful. They both have a weakness for terrible puns which reminds me of Chat Noir from Miraculous Ladybug.
I’m also reading a collection of George Orwell’s essays and reviews, All Art is Propaganda (many of the essays actually contain some variation on this very phrase), which I intend to write about at more length later, but for now have this quote. Orwell’s speaking specifically about Kipling’s verse, although obviously this has a wider application to poetry in general - although I’d like to know his definition of a good-good poem to see if we agree on good-bad.
“A good bad poem is a graceful monument to the obvious. It records in memorable form - for verse is a mnemonic device, among other things - some emotion which nearly every human being can share.”
What I Plan to Read Next
Thanhha Lai has a new book coming out, Butterfly Yellow! It has a gorgeous cover - Lai seems so lucky in her cover art; I loved the cover of Inside Out and Back Again, too.
I’ve also discovered that Jaclyn Moriarty also has a new book out! It’s called Gravity is the Thing and it’s an adult novel, which gives me pause, because I didn’t like Moriarty’s other adult novel when I read it, but after all that was a few years ago and undoubtedly she has grown and changed as a writer.
What I’ve Just Finished Reading
Tamara Allen’s The Road to Silver Plume, which I enjoyed, but perhaps not enough to buy the second when it comes out? We’ll see how I feel about it when it actually comes out.
What I’m Reading Now
I’ve begun Ella Cheever Thayer’s Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes, which is a romance from the 1870s (I believe) about two telegraph operators who fall in love by telegraph. So far they are flirting up a storm over the wire and it’s delightful. They both have a weakness for terrible puns which reminds me of Chat Noir from Miraculous Ladybug.
I’m also reading a collection of George Orwell’s essays and reviews, All Art is Propaganda (many of the essays actually contain some variation on this very phrase), which I intend to write about at more length later, but for now have this quote. Orwell’s speaking specifically about Kipling’s verse, although obviously this has a wider application to poetry in general - although I’d like to know his definition of a good-good poem to see if we agree on good-bad.
“A good bad poem is a graceful monument to the obvious. It records in memorable form - for verse is a mnemonic device, among other things - some emotion which nearly every human being can share.”
What I Plan to Read Next
Thanhha Lai has a new book coming out, Butterfly Yellow! It has a gorgeous cover - Lai seems so lucky in her cover art; I loved the cover of Inside Out and Back Again, too.
I’ve also discovered that Jaclyn Moriarty also has a new book out! It’s called Gravity is the Thing and it’s an adult novel, which gives me pause, because I didn’t like Moriarty’s other adult novel when I read it, but after all that was a few years ago and undoubtedly she has grown and changed as a writer.
