wednesday reading has pneumonia

[landofnowhere]

(No, this doesn't mean that I've been reading Victorian fiction lately. Rather, my cough which was an excuse for not posting last week hasn't yet gone away, and now I know why. Fortunately, unlike the Victorians, I now have antibiotics and an inhaler.)

I have two weeks of reading to catch up on, though since I've been sick/mystery hunting for a lot of that time I don't have much to write up (and I've also been blogging The Call in individual posts, not sure if I will actually finish that series at some point).

Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire. I think of this as episode 3 of the portal-fantasy campaign LARP that started in Every Heart a Doorway (with companion books to fill in backstory). I continue to enjoy it, even if I'm concerned about gender stuff with the butch twin being the likeable/relatable one and the femme twin being pure monster (in a way that this book didn't seem to complicate).

Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny. I will have more to say about this post-online-book-club, maybe? It was a book, I was confused about timeline stuff, it might make more sense on rereading, but it didn't super-hook me. Afterwards I went to look up Jo Walton's review in hopes it would explain, but she was underwhelmed by it also! It does seem like it will be good food for discussion, though. (Also I still don't find Zelazny protagonists relatable.)

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Oooh, superintelligent spiders! Not yet sure where this is going.

Comments

[ursula]

Oh, no, I hope the antibiotics are efficacious!

[landofnowhere]

Thanks! It mostly sounds worse than it is, I think -- up until yesterday I thought I just had a lingering cold, and I haven't been feverish (and the doctor said I was only contagious when feverish, so hopefully that means I didn't give it to anyone at work last week?)