Reading Wednesday

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Finished reading: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. I'm really glad that I took the time to read this; I've been meaning to get to it for a while. :) Favourite section was, I think, "The Alchemist" - something about the way the scientific + philosophical banter unfolded in that bit really worked for me. My attention started to wander a bit in the later half of the novel, though. Not quite sure why that is.

Currently reading: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Nothing to say yet, as I just started it today, and I'm not very far into it yet. It certainly is very... Russian.

Reading next: Little Fish by Casey Plett. Canadian novel; set in Winnipeg. I came across this one on a rec list - might have been a list of Canadian trans authors, or maybe it was a more broad LGBT list - and hadn't given it much thought until I saw it in the library. So. The impression I get from the back is that it's a painfully Canadian "discovery/rediscovery of family and self with a backdrop of unforgivingly cold landscape", with the more novel addition that the central character is a trans woman. We'll see. ;)