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Wednesday Reading Meme
Apr. 21st, 2021 07:43 amWhat I’ve Just Finished Reading
I’m barreling along with the 1990s portion of the Newbery Honor project, and this week I read one I really liked! Russell Freedman’s The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane does what it says on the tin in an engaging, informative style. The descriptions of the Wright brothers’ autumns on Kittyhawk as they tested their airplane designs particularly appealed to me - not the driving winds and the infinite sand, but the long happy days utterly focused on their absorbing airplane invention hobby.
Walter Dean Myers’ Somewhere in the Darkness I didn’t find as appealing (Myers’ characters always seem strangely affectless to me), but at least it was short.
After my vaccination I was feeling kind of out of it and therefore in need of something light, so I read the next Mrs. Pollifax book, Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief. This is in fact so light that it’s already slipping out of my head, but it was exactly the level of engagement that I needed at the time.
What I’m Reading Now
Still in the thick of Murderbot! I finished Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy before post-vaccination lethargy made me set Network Effect aside briefly... and then I realized that Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job is due in three days, so I'd better read it now if I want to read it. But I WILL return to Murderbot, and am saving my thoughts for a Murderbot post.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job even more than I expected. It’s about a woman who keeps taking different jobs looking for something that is easy, only to accidentally grow deeply invested in each one. The second section (the book has five sections, one per job) has a slight whiff of the supernatural about it, which I was not expecting and found an immensely enjoyable surprise.
What I Plan to Read Next
Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility!
I’m barreling along with the 1990s portion of the Newbery Honor project, and this week I read one I really liked! Russell Freedman’s The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane does what it says on the tin in an engaging, informative style. The descriptions of the Wright brothers’ autumns on Kittyhawk as they tested their airplane designs particularly appealed to me - not the driving winds and the infinite sand, but the long happy days utterly focused on their absorbing airplane invention hobby.
Walter Dean Myers’ Somewhere in the Darkness I didn’t find as appealing (Myers’ characters always seem strangely affectless to me), but at least it was short.
After my vaccination I was feeling kind of out of it and therefore in need of something light, so I read the next Mrs. Pollifax book, Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief. This is in fact so light that it’s already slipping out of my head, but it was exactly the level of engagement that I needed at the time.
What I’m Reading Now
Still in the thick of Murderbot! I finished Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy before post-vaccination lethargy made me set Network Effect aside briefly... and then I realized that Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job is due in three days, so I'd better read it now if I want to read it. But I WILL return to Murderbot, and am saving my thoughts for a Murderbot post.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job even more than I expected. It’s about a woman who keeps taking different jobs looking for something that is easy, only to accidentally grow deeply invested in each one. The second section (the book has five sections, one per job) has a slight whiff of the supernatural about it, which I was not expecting and found an immensely enjoyable surprise.
What I Plan to Read Next
Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility!
