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Reading Wednesday
Work has left me braindead, so this week's Reading Wednesday is going to be a quick one. ;)
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Anyhow -
Finished reading: The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Lauren B Davis. Canadian version of HCA's "The Snow Queen", yay! However, it's a portal fantasy, and most of the story doesn't actually take place in Canada, which was disappointing for me to say the least. On the upside, the story picks up quite a bit once the protagonist makes her way into the fantasy world, and I got sucked in after that. Also, the Kai-equivalent character is the Gerda-equivalent's sibling rather than love interest in this story; I rather like that as a narrative choice.
Currently reading: The Supernaturals by David L Coleman. It's sort of like The Haunting of Hill House, except there's a paranormal investigation television show involved somehow. I'm not very far into this one, and it has yet to grab me, but I've been craving horror and a breezy airport novel seemed a good bet.
Reading next: Current library haul is as follows -
+ The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett - one of the few Discworld-related books that I haven't read yet. :)
+ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. I don't know anything about it other than "fantasy set in Russia" - but that's enough to interest me.
+ Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker. It's what it says on the tin. All I know about Chopin is that he was a Polish dude who composed some cool tunes, so I'm looking forward to learning more. :D
And welcome to the new people who've added me recently. I'm looking forward to getting to know you.
Anyhow -
Finished reading: The Grimoire of Kensington Market by Lauren B Davis. Canadian version of HCA's "The Snow Queen", yay! However, it's a portal fantasy, and most of the story doesn't actually take place in Canada, which was disappointing for me to say the least. On the upside, the story picks up quite a bit once the protagonist makes her way into the fantasy world, and I got sucked in after that. Also, the Kai-equivalent character is the Gerda-equivalent's sibling rather than love interest in this story; I rather like that as a narrative choice.
Currently reading: The Supernaturals by David L Coleman. It's sort of like The Haunting of Hill House, except there's a paranormal investigation television show involved somehow. I'm not very far into this one, and it has yet to grab me, but I've been craving horror and a breezy airport novel seemed a good bet.
Reading next: Current library haul is as follows -
+ The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett - one of the few Discworld-related books that I haven't read yet. :)
+ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. I don't know anything about it other than "fantasy set in Russia" - but that's enough to interest me.
+ Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker. It's what it says on the tin. All I know about Chopin is that he was a Polish dude who composed some cool tunes, so I'm looking forward to learning more. :D
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I've been really appreciating that there have been more EE-inspired books coming out as of late. It's an underused setting in English-language work, I think. Though hopefully the success (?) of those will lead to more translations of actual EE stuff as well (I don't know if this is becoming more common, but I haven't gone looking either).
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I've also appreciated it! It is good to get out of the rut of WE inspired books. I'm not sure either; I haven't seen many translations though.
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The Last Hero is fun because it goes back to Rincewind and the wizards and the silver horde but also checks in with rest of the Ankh Morpork crew and there’s lots of Carrot and Leonard of Quirm.
ETA: also Chopin!!
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The Last Hero is fun because it goes back to Rincewind - You had me at "Rincewind". ;)
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Also, ahh you said this to someone else, but I also wish more non-Western European writing would be translated into English. It's frustrating and saddening, the wonderful stories that are out there but not being more widely read because they're not translated, or, if they are, they're really difficult to get access to.
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But since EE stuff seems to be a ~trend~ right now, at least in fantasy, I have high hopes. It's happened in other genres, at least (I'm mainly thinking of Nordic noir here).
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I did find a few EE things when I got google working correctly! But since I'm not very aware of the Trends, I don't know how to tell if there are more than before. That's a great point with Nordic noir, though! I always tend to forget about it since it's not my genre, oops.