Wednesday Reading Meme
Oct. 13th, 2021 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
Nothing! Alas alas! But admittedly I have been rather busy with the move this week.
What I’m Reading Now
After a LONG pause, I’ve picked up Mary Renault’s Fire from Heaven again!... only to get bogged down again when Alexander again goes off to war. I realize that Alexander the Great’s reputation rests on conquering the known world, so of COURSE any book about him is going to be a book about conquest, but every time he goes a-conquering I’m thinking about the people who are about to get slaughtered/raped/sold into slavery/etc and then I get stuck again.
This will probably be less of a problem when I get to The Persian Boy, as Bagoas presumably is not in a position to personally decide whether or not he happens to feel like sacking this particular city. (I think it is the personal responsibility for the sacking that is a sticking point for me: I didn’t have this problem in The Last of the Wine, or any of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books about soldiers.)
What I Plan to Read Next
Linda Sue Park’s Prairie Lotus!
Nothing! Alas alas! But admittedly I have been rather busy with the move this week.
What I’m Reading Now
After a LONG pause, I’ve picked up Mary Renault’s Fire from Heaven again!... only to get bogged down again when Alexander again goes off to war. I realize that Alexander the Great’s reputation rests on conquering the known world, so of COURSE any book about him is going to be a book about conquest, but every time he goes a-conquering I’m thinking about the people who are about to get slaughtered/raped/sold into slavery/etc and then I get stuck again.
This will probably be less of a problem when I get to The Persian Boy, as Bagoas presumably is not in a position to personally decide whether or not he happens to feel like sacking this particular city. (I think it is the personal responsibility for the sacking that is a sticking point for me: I didn’t have this problem in The Last of the Wine, or any of Rosemary Sutcliff’s books about soldiers.)
What I Plan to Read Next
Linda Sue Park’s Prairie Lotus!
