wednesday reading
Jan. 14th, 2015 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelights• What are you reading?
In Real Life, by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang.
• What did you recently finish reading?
A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan. Enjoyable. Not enough dragon. I like the main character, especially her passion for dragons. The things I don't like about her, like her tendency to treat the people around her as means to her own ends instead of ends in themselves, are believable for her age (nineteen) and status (gentlewoman in not-Victorian England). I liked her marriage: it started as a marriage of convenience, really, on her part (she wanted access to his library!) but grew into friendship and partnership. I wish we had gotten to see more of that, too.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Next book club books are The Good Lord Bird and The Golem and the Jinni, but I also have Stranger, by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, out from the library.
In Real Life, by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang.
• What did you recently finish reading?
A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan. Enjoyable. Not enough dragon. I like the main character, especially her passion for dragons. The things I don't like about her, like her tendency to treat the people around her as means to her own ends instead of ends in themselves, are believable for her age (nineteen) and status (gentlewoman in not-Victorian England). I liked her marriage: it started as a marriage of convenience, really, on her part (she wanted access to his library!) but grew into friendship and partnership. I wish we had gotten to see more of that, too.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Next book club books are The Good Lord Bird and The Golem and the Jinni, but I also have Stranger, by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, out from the library.
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Date: 2015-01-17 07:14 am (UTC)(Haven't read any Marie Brennan, partly from overdosing on dragons via Anne McCaffrey in the '80s. You're not the only person I know who enjoys Brennan's books, though.)
Oooh, The Golem and the Jinni! Started that and really liked it; plan to finish it someday. Recent immigrants in that period of New York City really resonates with me, especially Jewish immigrants.
Last month I read Stranger. It was good!