What I read: June 2024

LHC #251: "Foundryside" by Robert Jackson Bennett. ebook. I started off thinking this was way too simplistic, but it was good clean fun.

LHC #252: "City of Broken Magic" by Mirah Bolender. Audiobook to get me to and from food bank farm day and then another drive to Ottawa. Way too much unimportant detail, or maybe it was misplaced characterization and worldbuilding, for my taste.

LHC #253: "Four Lost Cities" by Annalee Newitz. Audiobook. Nonfiction might work better for me for long car rides. I finished a sweater working on this!

LHC #254: "The sin in the steel" by Ryan Van Loan. Hard copy because it was the only format available. This was really fun, even if a huge portion of it was zombie battles and I got really tired of hearing about ichor, and sometimes nothing would happen for chapters on end because characters (okay, the main character) would rail on and on, not letting others get a word in edgewise.

LHC #255: "Half-Blood Blues" by Esi Edugyan. ebook. Really good.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: January 2024

"Morgan is my name" by Sophie Keech. Office book club selection. It gets exhausting to read about plucky young heroines who are terrible at needlework all the time. I should probably read some Jo Walton. I mean, you can be good at needlework and other things too! I didn't find this book very surprising. The first half was kind of boring, but it got better towards the end. LHC #233: "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I read her writing advice website regularly, so I thought I should maybe read an actual book to find out if she was worth it. Oh my, the voice of this book grabbed me immediately. The worldbuilding seemed shady but the voice was solid. It wasn't very subtle, but I might not be the target audience. LHC #234: "Ragnarok: The End of the Gods" by A. S. Byatt. At this point with my library account, I'm just guessing. I know there was something by Byatt there? I suspect there was. I did not know what to make of this book. Strange, but it w

What I read: March 2024

LHC #240: "Vita Nostra" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. All I knew going in was dark academia. This was a neat thing to read after A Deadly Education last month. The students can leave this school at summer and winter break, but maybe they shouldn't. Also, interesting education method, providing Sasha with a CD player and punishing her if she leaves it in the mode where it plays all the tracks in sequence. "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman. When I finished Ragnarok by AS Byatt (last month? January?) I was thinking it might have made more sense if I had any knowledge of the subject matter. The boy had left this lying around, and it was not a tough read. LHC #241: "Science on a mission: How Military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean" by Naomi Oreskes. I deferred this once because it was so long. History of science is challenging for me to read, because of the need to get a grasp on dispr

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