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landofnowhereI haven't been on top of book posts because Wednesdays are my busiest day; possibly I should move to another day of the week.
The Clouds, Aristophanes. Readaloud. I'm glad I read this, but I didn't find it as much fun as Lysistrata. Partly I'm just uptight about bathroom humor. But also the plot is basically: father sends his son to Socrates's Thinkery to get an education, and the son comes back apparently brainwashed, with weird ideas about about (grammatical) gender, liking all sorts of inappropriate literature, and generally lacking respect for his elders, and the father burns down the Thinkery in revenge. Which is certainly relevant to the present moment, but not in a fun way.
Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson. I finished Stormlight Arc 1! This book generally provided a solid conclusion to that arc while setting things up for the second half of the series, but it wasn't my favorite of the series. I am interested enough to keep reading this series but probably won't reread any of the Arc 1 books.
The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan. I prefer the Wheel of Time show to the books, because I only have so much tolerance for Jordan's weird gender politics and his male POV characters thinking about how women are inscrutable/being annoyingly and unnecessarily chivalrous. But I'm also the sort of person who prefers to read the book before watching. I most recently set aside the series in the middle of book 4, but the show has now almost caught up to the point where I was in the books, so I took this book along on a recent trip and finished it. There are things I liked, and I'm glad I read this in preparation for the show, but I expect I'll enjoy the show more.
The Clouds, Aristophanes. Readaloud. I'm glad I read this, but I didn't find it as much fun as Lysistrata. Partly I'm just uptight about bathroom humor. But also the plot is basically: father sends his son to Socrates's Thinkery to get an education, and the son comes back apparently brainwashed, with weird ideas about about (grammatical) gender, liking all sorts of inappropriate literature, and generally lacking respect for his elders, and the father burns down the Thinkery in revenge. Which is certainly relevant to the present moment, but not in a fun way.
Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson. I finished Stormlight Arc 1! This book generally provided a solid conclusion to that arc while setting things up for the second half of the series, but it wasn't my favorite of the series. I am interested enough to keep reading this series but probably won't reread any of the Arc 1 books.
The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan. I prefer the Wheel of Time show to the books, because I only have so much tolerance for Jordan's weird gender politics and his male POV characters thinking about how women are inscrutable/being annoyingly and unnecessarily chivalrous. But I'm also the sort of person who prefers to read the book before watching. I most recently set aside the series in the middle of book 4, but the show has now almost caught up to the point where I was in the books, so I took this book along on a recent trip and finished it. There are things I liked, and I'm glad I read this in preparation for the show, but I expect I'll enjoy the show more.