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landofnowhereIt's been too long since I posted here! I do mean to make a post on the memoirs of Clara Kathleen Rogers, yet another 19th century woman composer who lived a fascinating life and wrote about it! Other books that I read and have not written about include The Affairs of John Bolsover by Una Silberrad, Chroniques du Pays des Mères (finished!) and Le Silence de La Citè by Elisabeth Vonarburg, Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and probably something else I'm forgetting. In the interest of getting caught up I am not going to write about them now but ask if there's anything you're curious about.
Darksight Dare, Lois McMaster Bujold. Another Penric! I liked this one, and the series continues to be cozy.
Radiant Star, Ann Leckie. This time Leckie has written a nineteenth-century novel In Space, and this turns out to be a sort of thing that I really like. As someone who also reads nineteenth-century novels for fun, trying to explain this to people who haven't read as many has helped crystallize some thoughts about what makes a nineteenth-century novel (which is of course a very diverse genre). It's also interesting because the narrator is from a later time period than whan the book is set, which it's really the equivalent of a nineteenth-century historical novel, of which I've only read a handful (and books of that type can, ironically, hold up less well to the test of time).
Diary of a Cranky Bookworm, Aster Glenn Gray (osprey_archer). I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to read this one -- I've been a cranky teenage bookworm, do I need to go back there? I spent the first half of the first Scholomance boook waiting for the protagonist to Grow Up Already. But skygiants' review sold me on the book. Sage may be a cranky bookworm, but she also has a delightful group of close friends (of the sort that I wish I'd had at that age), and the book provided plenty of fluff to pad out the moments of teenage angst.
Darksight Dare, Lois McMaster Bujold. Another Penric! I liked this one, and the series continues to be cozy.
Radiant Star, Ann Leckie. This time Leckie has written a nineteenth-century novel In Space, and this turns out to be a sort of thing that I really like. As someone who also reads nineteenth-century novels for fun, trying to explain this to people who haven't read as many has helped crystallize some thoughts about what makes a nineteenth-century novel (which is of course a very diverse genre). It's also interesting because the narrator is from a later time period than whan the book is set, which it's really the equivalent of a nineteenth-century historical novel, of which I've only read a handful (and books of that type can, ironically, hold up less well to the test of time).
Diary of a Cranky Bookworm, Aster Glenn Gray (
osprey_archer). I wasn't sure at first if I wanted to read this one -- I've been a cranky teenage bookworm, do I need to go back there? I spent the first half of the first Scholomance boook waiting for the protagonist to Grow Up Already. But skygiants' review sold me on the book. Sage may be a cranky bookworm, but she also has a delightful group of close friends (of the sort that I wish I'd had at that age), and the book provided plenty of fluff to pad out the moments of teenage angst.
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