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landofnowhereHenry 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 declaration of the Olympic Truce 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 declaration of the Olympic Truce 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.