Jan. 1st, 2020
Reading Wednesday
Jan. 1st, 2020 09:40 amAhhh, first Reading Wednesday of the year! Yay!
Currently Reading: The Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh. I saw someone mention this one a short while back (I think it was![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
muccamukk?) and their description of it made me curious. And then minutia_r encouraged me more once she saw that it was on my to-read list.
I'm about halfway through, and enjoying it so far. Science fiction isn't my usual genre of choice, but that's just because I don't usually think to pick it up. I kind of wish I'd read this when I was a teenager, because I know my kid self would have loved it to pieces. Cat aliens and language barriers, whoo! And I was actively in some space fandoms at that time, so... Probably would have ended up writing buckets of fanfic about Pyanfar Chanur, honestly.
The paperback I'm reading from is actually a compilation of three - in addition to this one, it has Chanur's Venture and The Kif Strike Back - so, assuming I enjoy Pride to the end, I guess I'll be reading all of them.
Reading Next: I have Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season by Bernd Brunner on hold at the library. So, that, I guess! It'll either be very interesting or very disappointing - I find books like these tend to be one or the other.
Aside from that, Minutia says I might like Cherryh's Rusalka, so that's on the to-read list, but I'll have to inter-library it.
One of my resolutions for the year, though, is to read more of the books I actually have. There's a to-read stack in my room full of interesting things, but I keep getting distracted by all of the shinies on the library's New Books list when they update it every week. ;) So, I'm setting myself the perfectly reasonable goal of 10 books from home (as a sub-goal of the usual "read at least 50 books" aim). Should be manageable.
Currently Reading: The Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh. I saw someone mention this one a short while back (I think it was
muccamukk?) and their description of it made me curious. And then minutia_r encouraged me more once she saw that it was on my to-read list.I'm about halfway through, and enjoying it so far. Science fiction isn't my usual genre of choice, but that's just because I don't usually think to pick it up. I kind of wish I'd read this when I was a teenager, because I know my kid self would have loved it to pieces. Cat aliens and language barriers, whoo! And I was actively in some space fandoms at that time, so... Probably would have ended up writing buckets of fanfic about Pyanfar Chanur, honestly.
The paperback I'm reading from is actually a compilation of three - in addition to this one, it has Chanur's Venture and The Kif Strike Back - so, assuming I enjoy Pride to the end, I guess I'll be reading all of them.
Reading Next: I have Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season by Bernd Brunner on hold at the library. So, that, I guess! It'll either be very interesting or very disappointing - I find books like these tend to be one or the other.
Aside from that, Minutia says I might like Cherryh's Rusalka, so that's on the to-read list, but I'll have to inter-library it.
One of my resolutions for the year, though, is to read more of the books I actually have. There's a to-read stack in my room full of interesting things, but I keep getting distracted by all of the shinies on the library's New Books list when they update it every week. ;) So, I'm setting myself the perfectly reasonable goal of 10 books from home (as a sub-goal of the usual "read at least 50 books" aim). Should be manageable.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.