[ SECRET POST #3129 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3129 ⌋

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Comments

Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

What are you reading now? How are you liking it?

Re: Current Reading

[badass_tiger]

I finished Diana Wynne Jones' Homeward Bounders yesterday afternoon, then started on Dogsbody last night. It's Diana Wynne Jones, it's pretty great so far.

Homeward Bounders really hurt me with its ending :c It was a really good one though. Not like, say, Fire and Hemlock. What even was that book.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

ohhhhhhh Homeward Bounders. That one wrecks me (and that's one of the meanest last lines ever). I just passed off my copy to my nephew with a warning that it is not happy.

Also, it pleases me that you appear to not love Fire and Hemlock...

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Fire & Hemlock is my favourite :) That or Archer's Goon.

Homeward Bounders is my least favourite!

Re: Current Reading

[ginainthekingsroad]

I have a special, special love for The Homeward Bounders because my sisters and I used to play a game with our small figures that bore a more than a passing resemblance to the actions of Them. For those characters, in-universe, we were omnipotent usually unseen forces called Giantesses. For us, The Homeward Bounders is too meta for words.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I picked up a Judge Dredd novel from the second hand bookstore out of curiosity. It's a bit odd, and there's some stuff that makes me seriously cringe (there's a FtM judge (i think? it's super-unclear) who's called a she and occasionally a hermaphrodite and there's a lot of insults about them wanting to be a man). I'm not that familiar with Dredd-lore so I'm occasionally confused by the terms. But I am curious to see where it's going. And it's not the worst thing I've ever read.

Re: Current Reading

[ketita]

Too many volumes of the Cambridge History of Japan.
As history books they are indeed excellent, but I find that there's way, way too much detail and not enough analysis. They drown you in events and facts, but then you kind of have to step back and figure out the broader trends and historical movements.
Which, okay, yes this is good practice in thinking and whatever but I'm stuck slogging through so many pages of it. I wish the books were shorter and more focused (or alternatively, that I didn't have to read them).

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

1) Bleak House, by Charles Dickens. About halfway through (which is still 450 fucking pages). It's definitely a slog and definitely very Dickens but I like it alright. The atmosphere is really good and strong and sort of pleasantly ominous and bleak, and I like a lot of the characters, especially Jarndyce. But it's definitely at the point where you can sort of see where everything is going, which is actually really frustrating in this case because there's still 450 pages left for it all to be drawn out through. Bleh.

2) The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler. It owns, Marlowe owns, every Raymond Chandler book owns.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my goodness, I love Bleak House.

Re: Current Reading

[yuuago]

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. I've just started it, but I like it so far.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished King's Quest: The Kingdom of Sorrow, and now I'm reading King's Quest: The Floating Castle.

They're a lot of fun! Definitely good tie-ins to the games but you don't need to have played them to enjoy the books. I really like how the fairies are portrayed and seeing more of Daventry fleshed out.

Re: Current Reading

[kaijinscendre]

House Of Leaves for books.

And a veryyyyyy long Teen Wolf fanfic series. I am on the last part.

Re: Current Reading

[caerbannog]

The City of Ember - I've literally just started so idk If I like it or not. Non offensive average start.

Re: Current Reading

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I finally wrapped up "The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf" which felt very much like it was written for the paycheck with a fourth book forthcoming.

Started Butler's "Lilith's Brood" omnibus as the lunch reading. Extremely good.

Wrapped up MacKenzie's Devi Gita translation as well. Also read a quick book on the go programming language. I need to pick up a nighttime book. I picked up the Apex World Science Fiction anthologies when they went on stale a few months back. I also have last year's Tor.com collection.

I also have Alan Cumming's memoir "Not My Father's Son," but I don't know when I'll be in a space to read it.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going through my Discworld books and right now I'm at Carpe Jugulum. Love it, of course.

Re: Current Reading

[a_potato]

I'm reading 'Haruko's World' by Gail Lee Bernstein. It's an ethnography about women's roles in Japanese farming communities in the '70s.

It's fascinating. And while the women were expected to perform duties that are stereotypically female (clean and cook, for instance), it upends some notions of what "women's work" is and has been. The current Western narrative doesn't tend to allow for farm women working in the fields, but these women were absolutely expected to. In some respects, they did more of the hard labor than their husbands.

Re: Current Reading - Black Out/All Clear

[(Anonymous)]

Not reading anything right now, still in the post-book contemplation zone after finishing Connie Willis' Black Out/All Clear. Now that was a book! Okay, technically two books, but I bought the combined edition because she intended it as one book before it got to Tolkien-esque proportions and her publisher insisted on splitting it. It is the first time I've ever seen someone use the plot-trick of repeatedly snatching the characters' hope away at the last second and not end up feeling Charlie Browned out at the end. She managed to effective build tension throughout using basically one plot trick, and have it turn into a great story that left me entirely wrung out and emotionally spent by the end. I'm not ready to let go of that and move onto another book just yet.

Re: Current Reading

[loracarol]

I'm currently making my way through the Discworld "Watch" books. I just finished Foot of Clay and The Fifth Elephant neither of which I'd read before, and I adored them. Next up is Night Watch, which I love, so I'm looking forward to it as soon as I find my copy for fucks sake.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

LOTR re-read, still. Currently on the appendices, so almost finished.

Next up: either Unfinished Tales (again) or The Book of Lost Tales I (again).

I like them all lots.

Re: Current Reading

[kallanda_lee]

No books. I have sunk deeper into the cesspits of fanfic.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

'Fire Logic' by Laurie Marks. It took me a couple of chapters to get into it, but it's very good so far.

Theodore Sturgeon

[(Anonymous)]

I was lucky enough to find a short-story collection at the thrift store. I LOVE Sturgeon; he ties my brain in knots in the best ways, alternately unsettling and uplifting, and he knows just how long or short a story he can get out of an idea.

Any fans of Sturgeon> Favourite story? I don't know about 'fave', but Bianca's Hands and the voodoo doll stories, and the one about the musician, messed me UP. In a good way.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Nelvana of the Northern Lights. I'm more than halfway through the complete collection and it's... not quite what I was expecting. I thought it was going to be pure pulpy golden age sci-fi cheese with some obligatory WWII propaganda here and there, but instead it's mostly WWII propaganda with some sci-fi cheese sprinkled on top.

I liked the storyline where Nelvana goes to the secret underground civilization and helps save them from the evil magician guy, but other than that, meh.

Also, I know it's a product of its time and period-typical racism is to be expected, but I cannot get over how Nelvana is supposedly Inuit but she and her brother are drawn as the Whiteyest White McWhitersons. It's really jarring.

Re: Current Reading

[leisuretime]

Finishing up Paper Towns by John Green. It's the first time I've read it since I got it in 2008. It holds up pretty well. The fun parts are still fun, the creepy parts are still creepy, but I'm noticing a shift from past tense to present tense in the final act, that I either didn't notice before or didn't remember, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Re: Current Reading

[(Anonymous)]

The Scarlet Letter--which I'm actually enjoying. And my dad is urging me to read The Worst Hard Time, so that's next.