reading wednesday

[boxofdelights]

• What are you currently reading?

Brene Brown's The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

• What did you recently finish reading?

Blue Beetle: Shell Shocked, by Keith Giffen, John Rogers, and Cully Hamner. It's weird, reading around all the references to other stories and characters that I have not read. I love the fact that a Mexican-American superhero exists. I could wish that the writer and illustrators got their Spanish-language bits looked at by a Spanish speaker. I love the fact that this superhero talks to his family and friends.

• What do you think you’ll read next?

I don't know, but I have an ARC of Jennifer Finney Boylan's Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders to read and review.

I am trying to use Goodreads to keep track of what I read again. When I say again, I mean that I am trying again, not that I ever succeeded. I put everything I have checked out from the library on my to-read shelf. Let's see if this works.

Comments

[maribou]

ooh, neat. (that's me wot friended you on Goodreads just now, btw - feel free not to friend back without concerns - I just very much like seeing people's reading updates :) )

[boxofdelights]

Hi! I do too. Have you figured out how you're going to use dreamwidth versus livejournal?

[amaebi]

It suddenly and belatedly occurred to me that you might have read Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake....

[boxofdelights]

Did Not Finish. Did not even get very far. What I remember is that it is the kind of science fiction written by people who do not read science fiction.

[amaebi]

Ah, well. FWIW, she says it's not science fiction, and I agree. I am still hoping to talk about it with someone, because I found it interesting and with odd features. For one thing, I don't think it's a novel, either. More of a tableau pas vivant....

[maribou]

I have not figured that out. However, I think I have become accustomed to not having it figured it out, and tabled my puzzlement until I have fewer Life Things going on.