reading is fundamentally AWESOME
Aug. 10th, 2008 02:51 pmoh man. when I collapse in a week due to fantasy overdose, you can say at my funeral I died a happy woman. completed within the last few days:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - already reviewed but in brief: really cool, but holy shit so fucked up.
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer - so trashy! I keep waiting for the witches to appear on the scene, but no luck yet. I also keep waiting for Jake to be gay. He deserves a big gay happy ending. Not going to happen of course - the author is Mormon - but I can fantasize.
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare - better than the first, not that that's saying much. The main characters are kind of annoying with their TRAGIC INCESTUOUS LOVE, but Alec! Oh, god, I want to smish him to teeny bits. The whole book long I was pulling for Magnus, and then it was actually happening all along! Maybe they will get to be happy once Alex gets over his crush on the Draco Malfoy stand-in! Also Simon is really awesome.
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik - I'm, um. Kind of in shock from how fast this book went. I want more! I've tried to describe the sheer awesomeness of this series, and basically it's everything I love about Jane Austen, combined with the great plottiness of the Master and Commander books, and of course dragons. Plus Naomi Novik is a goddess of prose and everything she writes is amazing. Also, I, uh, spent the entire book trying to make up my mind what combination of Laurence, Tharkay and Granby I most deeply desired to be canonical, and I couldn't. But anyone who feels like pointing the way to fic gets a cookie!
to read while on break:
Cotillion, The Masqueraders, The Black Moth and These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
some trilogy about urban werewolves by Patricia Briggs (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
idhren24 says it's good. ~shrug~)
and, time and inclination permitting, Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault, Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, and Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey (it can't be worse than the Kushiel books, right? right?). who knows, maybe I'll finally finish Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell! as soon as I get my hands on Superior Saturday and Breaking Dawn I expect I'll plow through those too.
I should probably study my Greek, huh? Yeah, not happening.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - already reviewed but in brief: really cool, but holy shit so fucked up.
Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer - so trashy! I keep waiting for the witches to appear on the scene, but no luck yet. I also keep waiting for Jake to be gay. He deserves a big gay happy ending. Not going to happen of course - the author is Mormon - but I can fantasize.
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare - better than the first, not that that's saying much. The main characters are kind of annoying with their TRAGIC INCESTUOUS LOVE, but Alec! Oh, god, I want to smish him to teeny bits. The whole book long I was pulling for Magnus, and then it was actually happening all along! Maybe they will get to be happy once Alex gets over his crush on the Draco Malfoy stand-in! Also Simon is really awesome.
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik - I'm, um. Kind of in shock from how fast this book went. I want more! I've tried to describe the sheer awesomeness of this series, and basically it's everything I love about Jane Austen, combined with the great plottiness of the Master and Commander books, and of course dragons. Plus Naomi Novik is a goddess of prose and everything she writes is amazing. Also, I, uh, spent the entire book trying to make up my mind what combination of Laurence, Tharkay and Granby I most deeply desired to be canonical, and I couldn't. But anyone who feels like pointing the way to fic gets a cookie!
to read while on break:
Cotillion, The Masqueraders, The Black Moth and These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
some trilogy about urban werewolves by Patricia Briggs (
idhren24 says it's good. ~shrug~)and, time and inclination permitting, Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault, Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, and Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey (it can't be worse than the Kushiel books, right? right?). who knows, maybe I'll finally finish Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell! as soon as I get my hands on Superior Saturday and Breaking Dawn I expect I'll plow through those too.
I should probably study my Greek, huh? Yeah, not happening.
