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: 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

What I read: July 2024

"Don't sleep, there are snakes" by Daniel Everett. Recommended to me by a translator I work with, someone gave it to me for Christmas. I found I didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for some of Daniel's situations, pretty much for the reason he expected. LHC #256: "The Princess Will Save You" by Sarah Henning. eBook. I bet I put it on my list because it's a gender-swapped princess bride complete with pirates. What's to go wrong with that? I found the unrelenting awesome-genius-righteousness of the good guys and the endless stupid-shallow idiocy of the bad guys tedious after a while but it wasn't terrible. The plot was good, just sometimes the writing was not very subtle. LHC #257: "The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare" by G.K. Chesterton. eBook. It was on my list because of Neil Gaiman. Quick read, very fun. Not many women! LHC #258: "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro. Audio book because I had the eBook on hold f

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