reading wednesday
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boxofdelights• What are you reading?
The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis. I don't read short stories often enough. I think my powers of visualization must be feeble, or at least easily exhausted. The worlds of these stories have mostly been really interesting, but it takes me a long time between finishing one and being ready to pick up the next. The standout so far is Nisi Shawl's "In Colors Everywhere," in which there are penal colonies, but they are on another planet, so to save money you get shipped there without your body. They'll decant you into a new one once you get there, but your new body's race and sex may not match your own.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Kinda Like Brothers, by Coe Booth, because I'm interested in the depiction of eleven-year-olds in fiction. Recommendations welcome!
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner, for library book group.
October is going to be all about Lovecraft. Classics book group is reading The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories. SF book group is reading two novellas: "The first is by H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness. The second book is based on another Lovecraft story, "The Horror at Red Hook". That particular story is especially disturbingly racist, which is why I didn't choose it to read, although you're welcome to if you want for comparison's sake. This second book is The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. This novella has been nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, Locus, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards and won the Shirley Jackson horror award. Here's what the author himself has to say about his book: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/02/17/the-big-idea-victor-lavalle/ "
I might, if I'm already soaking in a Lovecraftian miasma, take the opportunity to also read Kij Johnson's The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe and Ruthanna Emrys's Winter Tide.
The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis. I don't read short stories often enough. I think my powers of visualization must be feeble, or at least easily exhausted. The worlds of these stories have mostly been really interesting, but it takes me a long time between finishing one and being ready to pick up the next. The standout so far is Nisi Shawl's "In Colors Everywhere," in which there are penal colonies, but they are on another planet, so to save money you get shipped there without your body. They'll decant you into a new one once you get there, but your new body's race and sex may not match your own.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Kinda Like Brothers, by Coe Booth, because I'm interested in the depiction of eleven-year-olds in fiction. Recommendations welcome!
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner, for library book group.
October is going to be all about Lovecraft. Classics book group is reading The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories. SF book group is reading two novellas: "The first is by H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness. The second book is based on another Lovecraft story, "The Horror at Red Hook". That particular story is especially disturbingly racist, which is why I didn't choose it to read, although you're welcome to if you want for comparison's sake. This second book is The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. This novella has been nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, Locus, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards and won the Shirley Jackson horror award. Here's what the author himself has to say about his book: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/02/17/the-big-idea-victor-lavalle/ "
I might, if I'm already soaking in a Lovecraftian miasma, take the opportunity to also read Kij Johnson's The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe and Ruthanna Emrys's Winter Tide.
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Date: 2017-09-28 11:38 am (UTC)Thanks for reading the Lovecraft so I don't have to ;)
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Date: 2017-09-29 12:28 am (UTC)I just don't get horror. I do read some of it these days but I'm mostly reading around the horror for the good parts. I am very fond of the person in my SF book group who loves horror, so I try to discuss it politely; fortunately she is fond of me too.
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