What Are You Reading (Not On A) Wednesday
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highlyeccentricWhat Are You Reading Wednesday:
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
More or less the same academic material. For funsies, I'm reading Visit Sunny Chernobyl, a travel guide to the world's most polluted places. It's interesting but not gripping. Likewise Best Australian Poems 2013. I started Eugenides' The Marriage Plot and haven't made much headway with it. All these together are combining to mean that Karrass' Unmarriages is functioning as my fun reading as well as a work text.
What did you recently finish reading?
Still Life by A.S. Byatt
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow, I liked this a *lot* better than The Virgin in the Garden. All characters, but especially Frederica and Daniel, seemed more likeable and more *interesting* to me. I was surprised to find that I did continue liking Andrew as well as occasionally wishing to give him a kick up the pants. The changes in Winifred and Bill were very well handled and hit close to home, for various reasons.
My chief regret is that Marcus didn't have more cause to interact with the babies. He LIKED the thought that he'd managed to change Will's nappy, and god knows Stephanie could have used some help around the place. Plus, well... seeing the changes in Winifred, I kind of wanted some of that for Marcus. And I know I'm reading my own family dynamics into this, but the unquestioning love of a wee sprog is *good* for teenagers with troubles.
Podcast wise, I listened to and did not know what to make of The Thing About Shapes to Come by Adam Troy Castro. The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species, on the other hand, is an absolute delight from beginning to end. Suspect I should read everything Ken Liu has ever written...
What will you read next?
I have some scholarship on the Roman de la Rose to deal with, including a book chapter by a friend. Really not sure what I'll read for fun after I finish the current batch - but they'll probably take me a while yet.
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
More or less the same academic material. For funsies, I'm reading Visit Sunny Chernobyl, a travel guide to the world's most polluted places. It's interesting but not gripping. Likewise Best Australian Poems 2013. I started Eugenides' The Marriage Plot and haven't made much headway with it. All these together are combining to mean that Karrass' Unmarriages is functioning as my fun reading as well as a work text.
What did you recently finish reading?
Still Life by A.S. ByattMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow, I liked this a *lot* better than The Virgin in the Garden. All characters, but especially Frederica and Daniel, seemed more likeable and more *interesting* to me. I was surprised to find that I did continue liking Andrew as well as occasionally wishing to give him a kick up the pants. The changes in Winifred and Bill were very well handled and hit close to home, for various reasons.
My chief regret is that Marcus didn't have more cause to interact with the babies. He LIKED the thought that he'd managed to change Will's nappy, and god knows Stephanie could have used some help around the place. Plus, well... seeing the changes in Winifred, I kind of wanted some of that for Marcus. And I know I'm reading my own family dynamics into this, but the unquestioning love of a wee sprog is *good* for teenagers with troubles.
Podcast wise, I listened to and did not know what to make of The Thing About Shapes to Come by Adam Troy Castro. The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species, on the other hand, is an absolute delight from beginning to end. Suspect I should read everything Ken Liu has ever written...
What will you read next?
I have some scholarship on the Roman de la Rose to deal with, including a book chapter by a friend. Really not sure what I'll read for fun after I finish the current batch - but they'll probably take me a while yet.