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wednesday books
25 March 2020 21:08The Unspoken Name, A. K. Larkwood. This was fun and entirely charming -- a coming of age story set against an epic backdrop of gods and magic, but keeping its focus on the interpersonal relationships. I don't think I have much more to say about it, but will definitely read the next one.
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer. Reread. It's an interesting moment to be reading this series, which shares with the current moment the sense that the world is undergoing a transformation, will experience tragedy of a scale that we thought was relegated to the past, and will never be the same again. Excerpt I'm not far enough in to get to that -- right now I'm just enjoying the worldbuilding and prose. Also, this book and its sequel coincidentially take place at this time of year, but because everyone's jet-setting about the world in their flying cars, and it's mostly set in temperate zones anyway, it doesn't feel like a spring book. (It is in some ways an Easter story, of an odd sort, but that's different.)
Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer. Reread. It's an interesting moment to be reading this series, which shares with the current moment the sense that the world is undergoing a transformation, will experience tragedy of a scale that we thought was relegated to the past, and will never be the same again. Excerpt I'm not far enough in to get to that -- right now I'm just enjoying the worldbuilding and prose. Also, this book and its sequel coincidentially take place at this time of year, but because everyone's jet-setting about the world in their flying cars, and it's mostly set in temperate zones anyway, it doesn't feel like a spring book. (It is in some ways an Easter story, of an odd sort, but that's different.)