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wednesday books
1 November 2023 22:21Trop Semblable à l'Éclair, Ada Palmer tr. Michelle Charrier. I finished this! I think my plan is to reread the rest of the series in English first before trying to do this in French. Meanwhile I should find a new French thing to read, possibly Cyrano in the original.
Macbeth, William Shakespeare. Play readaloud. I was only around to listen to the second half, while waiting for/on a train, because of conflict with Kalamazoo ringing weekend, but it was still a good play, and interesting to listen to without reading along in the script. (I was offered the part of an infodumping Lord that hadn't been cast, but felt awkward about delivering a speech in the Kalamazoo train station.)
The Innocent Sleep, Seanan McGuire. Book #18 in the October Daye books, and covering more or less the same time period as #17, but from a different character's point of view. There were definitely some fun things about this, but not as much new plot as I'd hoped.
Beach Read, Emily Henry. Entertaining chick-lit romance with fun banter but also depth and heart. Nicely meta, as the protagonist is a romance novel writer while her love interest is a literary fiction writer, so you get them discussing the merits and interrogating the concept of a happy ending, even as you know they're headed towards one.
Macbeth, William Shakespeare. Play readaloud. I was only around to listen to the second half, while waiting for/on a train, because of conflict with Kalamazoo ringing weekend, but it was still a good play, and interesting to listen to without reading along in the script. (I was offered the part of an infodumping Lord that hadn't been cast, but felt awkward about delivering a speech in the Kalamazoo train station.)
The Innocent Sleep, Seanan McGuire. Book #18 in the October Daye books, and covering more or less the same time period as #17, but from a different character's point of view. There were definitely some fun things about this, but not as much new plot as I'd hoped.
Beach Read, Emily Henry. Entertaining chick-lit romance with fun banter but also depth and heart. Nicely meta, as the protagonist is a romance novel writer while her love interest is a literary fiction writer, so you get them discussing the merits and interrogating the concept of a happy ending, even as you know they're headed towards one.