Reading Wednesday
Jun. 6th, 2018 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I reached my goal for the year (50 books), so I've upped it to 75. ;V We'll see how this goes.
Just Finished: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. This one is a novel about tradition, comfort, resolution, and stories. More than anything else I was struck by how beautiful the writing is - this author has quite a way with words. I might need to seek out her other work.
Currently Reading: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. This novel comes up every time somebody mentions alternate history, and it's been kind of on the to-read list for a while, but I've only managed to get around to it now. One thing that I failed to osmose about it was the reincarnation trope; I had no idea until very recently that it was an important part of the novel. Anyway, I'm about halfway through it, and I'm finding it difficult to put down. I don't read this particular speculative subgenre very often, but this is making me wonder if I should look up some others; it's a pretty good read. :)
Reading Next: Prrrobably Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I went to the library looking for Bulgakov's The Master and the Margarita, but they didn't have it (I'll have to ILL it), so I decided to go for this one instead, which I've been meaning to read for a while.
Just Finished: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. This one is a novel about tradition, comfort, resolution, and stories. More than anything else I was struck by how beautiful the writing is - this author has quite a way with words. I might need to seek out her other work.
Currently Reading: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. This novel comes up every time somebody mentions alternate history, and it's been kind of on the to-read list for a while, but I've only managed to get around to it now. One thing that I failed to osmose about it was the reincarnation trope; I had no idea until very recently that it was an important part of the novel. Anyway, I'm about halfway through it, and I'm finding it difficult to put down. I don't read this particular speculative subgenre very often, but this is making me wonder if I should look up some others; it's a pretty good read. :)
Reading Next: Prrrobably Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I went to the library looking for Bulgakov's The Master and the Margarita, but they didn't have it (I'll have to ILL it), so I decided to go for this one instead, which I've been meaning to read for a while.
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Date: 2018-06-08 01:57 pm (UTC)...Ahh I have a few of those kinds of thing too - bought it years ago, and it's sat lurking ever since. Going to get to those one of these days~