What 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?
New additions to this list since last fortnight:
- Pat O'Connor, Friendships Between Women, which is technically a work book (and proving unexpectedly useful re: work, given it's modern sociology) but is also giving me personal thinkythoughts.
- Merl Storr (ed), Bisexuality: A Critical Reader, which is technically personal reading but is giving me a crisis of theory. I'm up to bisexual epistemolgy, you see. WHAT IS A BISEXUAL ANYWAY? Ahem. I'm discovering a strong dislike of the way men write about bisexuality, and it's making me think difficult thoughts about heterosexual dating while queer.
- Trollope, The Vicar of Bullhampton was going along just fine except I really don't like Mary's new fiancé. I also don't like how everyone bullied her into almost accepting her other suitor, but the new guy is a whiny wet lettuce.
I also started listening to the fairy tales of Charles Perrault in French. Litteratureaudio.com is my new friend.
What did you recently finish reading?
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island by Diccon Bewes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Oh, I loved this book. So full of obscure facts! I liked Slow Train better, for having a more coherent thread, but this was fascinating and also quite useful for understanding what's going on around me.
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was an engaging, well-realised novel with a fantastic sense of place (no shit, a novel about indigenous australian culture has a strong sense of place). I also found it very demanding ( because of its very light narrative voice and reluctance to give narrative judgements )
Witchery, Etc by Rel: this is a zine-format 28-page minicomic, also being published page by page as a webcoming here.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kayloulee sent it to me with a bundle of other swag from a con in Toronto. It's adorable! The webcomic is only 19 pages in, so if you like cute comics about witches who are neither good nor bad, and also about men with pumpkin heads, start following now!
And I finished Karras' Unmarriages. The book has the same easy-to-read style as Sexualites in Medieval Europe (although it's pitched slightly higher), but lacks the really punchy critical insights of her article-length work. I loved the historiographical introduction (*that* was punchy), and found the book as a whole interesting, but it was very... descriptive. I think that's what it aimed to be. To describe a whole bunch of options that weren't marriage. I would set it as a textbook / required reading in a heartbeat, but was a bit disappointed in it as cutting-edge scholarship.kayloulee should consider reading it, especially the chapter which is mostly reports from the Parisian church courts. Prime example of history as the craft of very slow gossip.
What will you read next? Hopefully I will FINISH some stuff. Sunny Chernobyl needs to go. The chances of me ordering 900 million books on contemporary bisexuality are also quite high, constrained only by my finances (the interlibrary system here doesn't have a great selection of anglophone queer theory, I wonder why?).
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
What are you currently reading?
New additions to this list since last fortnight:
- Pat O'Connor, Friendships Between Women, which is technically a work book (and proving unexpectedly useful re: work, given it's modern sociology) but is also giving me personal thinkythoughts.
- Merl Storr (ed), Bisexuality: A Critical Reader, which is technically personal reading but is giving me a crisis of theory. I'm up to bisexual epistemolgy, you see. WHAT IS A BISEXUAL ANYWAY? Ahem. I'm discovering a strong dislike of the way men write about bisexuality, and it's making me think difficult thoughts about heterosexual dating while queer.
- Trollope, The Vicar of Bullhampton was going along just fine except I really don't like Mary's new fiancé. I also don't like how everyone bullied her into almost accepting her other suitor, but the new guy is a whiny wet lettuce.
I also started listening to the fairy tales of Charles Perrault in French. Litteratureaudio.com is my new friend.
What did you recently finish reading?
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island by Diccon BewesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Oh, I loved this book. So full of obscure facts! I liked Slow Train better, for having a more coherent thread, but this was fascinating and also quite useful for understanding what's going on around me.
Mullumbimby by Melissa LucashenkoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was an engaging, well-realised novel with a fantastic sense of place (no shit, a novel about indigenous australian culture has a strong sense of place). I also found it very demanding ( because of its very light narrative voice and reluctance to give narrative judgements )
Witchery, Etc by Rel: this is a zine-format 28-page minicomic, also being published page by page as a webcoming here.
kayloulee sent it to me with a bundle of other swag from a con in Toronto. It's adorable! The webcomic is only 19 pages in, so if you like cute comics about witches who are neither good nor bad, and also about men with pumpkin heads, start following now!And I finished Karras' Unmarriages. The book has the same easy-to-read style as Sexualites in Medieval Europe (although it's pitched slightly higher), but lacks the really punchy critical insights of her article-length work. I loved the historiographical introduction (*that* was punchy), and found the book as a whole interesting, but it was very... descriptive. I think that's what it aimed to be. To describe a whole bunch of options that weren't marriage. I would set it as a textbook / required reading in a heartbeat, but was a bit disappointed in it as cutting-edge scholarship.
kayloulee should consider reading it, especially the chapter which is mostly reports from the Parisian church courts. Prime example of history as the craft of very slow gossip.What will you read next? Hopefully I will FINISH some stuff. Sunny Chernobyl needs to go. The chances of me ordering 900 million books on contemporary bisexuality are also quite high, constrained only by my finances (the interlibrary system here doesn't have a great selection of anglophone queer theory, I wonder why?).