Reading Wednesday
Oct. 2nd, 2024 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoCurrently reading: Kenneyism by Jeremy Appel. About said former Alberta premier's rise, fall, and general efforts to make my province worse. Interesting book, but bad for my blood pressure. (While it's on my mind, the chapter on Kenney's pro-oil and anti-environmentalism stance contained absolutely no mention of the 2016 fire and how its effects influenced the industry and general political climate in the province, which seems like a glaring omission to me.)
Reading through this stuff makes me feel pretty depressed about Alberta in general. Like, Kenney and Smith are awful, but it was people of the province that voted them in to begin with, you know? They didn't just magically get into power; my neighbours and family and coworkers and bosses put them there.
...Anyway, I'm probably going to need to read something light after this. I have a lot of books to choose from, 'cause I keep picking up stuff from Little Libraries, as well as whatever the regular library has to offer.
Tsundoku pile:
+ Summer in Orcus by Ursula Vernon. Some flavour of fantasy novel with a young protagonist. Just realized that this one is signed; I'll have to be gentle with it.
+ Combined edition A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I've read and enjoyed ATOTC; GE is new to me.
+ With Love from London by Sarah Jio. About a librarian who inherits her mother's bookshop. Not a romance novel.
+ Fire Strike by Clive Cussler. I have never claimed to have good taste in literature.
+ An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield. Memoir/what it says on the tin, maybe.
+ The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Translated by Pevear & Volokhonsky. Been casually meaning to look into this author for a while.
+ Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman. Probably needs no introduction. I tried to start this at one point, but wasn't in the mood.
+ The Village of Small Houses by Ian Ferguson. A memoir about growing up in Fort Vermillion.
+ Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik. Some kind of romantic drama/adventure set in Bolivia.
+ The Ghost Ships of Archangel by William Geroux. WWII nonfiction about ships from doomed convoy PQ-17 carrying supplies to Arkhangelsk.
+ Lake of the Dead by Andre Bjerke. A classic Norwegian horror/thriller; it has a film adaptation that I was very into for a while.
+ And All Between by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. This has been on my bookshelf since I was in elementary school and I have no idea what it's about.
+ Dust on the Sea by Douglas Reeman. Pulpy marine adventure set during WWII.
+ Assault in Norway by Thomas Gallagher. Small pulpy paperback about the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during WWII. Looks like it's a novelization of events rather than an actual history book.
+ Sixty-seven Ontological Studies by Jan Zwicky & Robert V. Moody. Poetry and photography.
+ Olav H. Hauges vakraste dikt. Sent to me by a friend. Compilation of my favourite poet's works. Norwegian only, not facing translation.
Reading through this stuff makes me feel pretty depressed about Alberta in general. Like, Kenney and Smith are awful, but it was people of the province that voted them in to begin with, you know? They didn't just magically get into power; my neighbours and family and coworkers and bosses put them there.
...Anyway, I'm probably going to need to read something light after this. I have a lot of books to choose from, 'cause I keep picking up stuff from Little Libraries, as well as whatever the regular library has to offer.
Tsundoku pile:
+ Summer in Orcus by Ursula Vernon. Some flavour of fantasy novel with a young protagonist. Just realized that this one is signed; I'll have to be gentle with it.
+ Combined edition A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I've read and enjoyed ATOTC; GE is new to me.
+ With Love from London by Sarah Jio. About a librarian who inherits her mother's bookshop. Not a romance novel.
+ Fire Strike by Clive Cussler. I have never claimed to have good taste in literature.
+ An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield. Memoir/what it says on the tin, maybe.
+ The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Translated by Pevear & Volokhonsky. Been casually meaning to look into this author for a while.
+ Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman. Probably needs no introduction. I tried to start this at one point, but wasn't in the mood.
+ The Village of Small Houses by Ian Ferguson. A memoir about growing up in Fort Vermillion.
+ Into the Jungle by Erica Ferencik. Some kind of romantic drama/adventure set in Bolivia.
+ The Ghost Ships of Archangel by William Geroux. WWII nonfiction about ships from doomed convoy PQ-17 carrying supplies to Arkhangelsk.
+ Lake of the Dead by Andre Bjerke. A classic Norwegian horror/thriller; it has a film adaptation that I was very into for a while.
+ And All Between by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. This has been on my bookshelf since I was in elementary school and I have no idea what it's about.
+ Dust on the Sea by Douglas Reeman. Pulpy marine adventure set during WWII.
+ Assault in Norway by Thomas Gallagher. Small pulpy paperback about the Norwegian heavy water sabotage during WWII. Looks like it's a novelization of events rather than an actual history book.
+ Sixty-seven Ontological Studies by Jan Zwicky & Robert V. Moody. Poetry and photography.
+ Olav H. Hauges vakraste dikt. Sent to me by a friend. Compilation of my favourite poet's works. Norwegian only, not facing translation.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.
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Date: 2024-10-09 04:39 pm (UTC)I very clearly remember reading a book titled something like "Assault on Norway" about the sabotage of the heavy water plant, but the one I read was non-fiction, so Idk! I hope you enjoy it when you get to it :)
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Date: 2024-10-09 09:22 pm (UTC)I bet I will enjoy the sabotage novel! It's not the first one I've come across, and idk, somehow I always get a kick out of them. Then again, the event was Very Dramatic, so not really a surprise. Have you seen the Norwegian tv drama about it? (Titled Kampen om tungtvannet) It was pretty good.