reading wednesday

All book group all the time. I'm doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge and trying to fit my book groups' picks to their prompts. I expect that will get trickier later on in the year.

• What are you reading?

The Weird Sisters, by Eleanor Brown, for Tawanda book group, and Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, for Classics book group.

• What did you recently finish reading?

The Best of All Possible Worlds, by Karen Lord, for science fiction book group. We've read fanfic with the serial numbers filed off before, and had similar problems appreciating it. Different reading protocols. Reading this as SF, I want to know what kind of time travel/parallel universes/communication at a distance/mindmelding with living spaceships we're dealing with, and how these things interact with each other to produce the effects we see. Reading it as fanfiction, I would be content to say "a solution exists", and pay attention to the problem this work deems most important, which is how Spock finds true love and happily ever after after his world is destroyed.

This book belongs on the Eugenics in SF reading list, Breeding for Psi Powers subheading.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

I've got Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer, to read for library book group.