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Henry IV, Part II, Shakespeare. Play readaloud. So Part I may be a better play in some sense, but this part has some really good bits -- this time I got to rant as Northumberland and swagger as Pistol, and just overall I felt emotionally more invested even though the rebellion plot was anticlimactic. (Will be skipping Henry V this weekend, but back in 2 weeks for Henry VI and more rebellion!)
The Will to Battle, Ada Palmer. Read the first part of this, up to the ( Read more... ) but then left it at home. Engrossing, but I'm not sure I have much to say right now, and as I recall it gets weirder in the second half.
Liberty's Daughter, Naomi Kritzer. This is a novel made from Naomi Kritzer's seastead stories, which I orginally read as a bunch of short stories -- though there's an added final chapter that gives some resolution to the character arc, which I enjoyed, and the original stories are just as fun on reread. The protagonist is a teenage girl living on a libertarian seastead, and the whole thing has a kind of Vorkosigan-like feel only not in space. The pacing is still better suited to a series of stories than to a novel, I think, but it's still a lot of fun to read.
The Will to Battle, Ada Palmer. Read the first part of this, up to the ( Read more... ) but then left it at home. Engrossing, but I'm not sure I have much to say right now, and as I recall it gets weirder in the second half.
Liberty's Daughter, Naomi Kritzer. This is a novel made from Naomi Kritzer's seastead stories, which I orginally read as a bunch of short stories -- though there's an added final chapter that gives some resolution to the character arc, which I enjoyed, and the original stories are just as fun on reread. The protagonist is a teenage girl living on a libertarian seastead, and the whole thing has a kind of Vorkosigan-like feel only not in space. The pacing is still better suited to a series of stories than to a novel, I think, but it's still a lot of fun to read.