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Also I have read very little in the last month.
What are you currently reading: pottering through Portrait of a Lady, still; made inroads on 'The Sex Myth', and right now rolling around gleefully in a newly-purchased e-book of "The Eyre Affair". Plus for work I'm getting back to Convergence Culture.
What have you recently finished reading: ie, in the last month.
The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I liked this *very much*. Renault seems to have got over her weird euphemistic compulsions around sex; Bagoas makes a great narrator; and my fixation on historical accuracy when it comes to minor details is pleased with the fact that the horses have no stirrups, and this is regularly indicated without mentioning the word 'stirrup'.
I just. Alexander. D'aww. Hephastion. D'aww. Bagoas, triple D'aww.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I... don't know what to make of this. I was gripped by it, and spent a lot of time trying to track geographical details on the Hawkesbury via googlemaps. It's so easy to forget how *isolated* those parts were from the main settlement. On the other hand, I do not understand why Grenville has her protag trade coal with a penal colony in Port Stephens. There is neither penal colony nor coal in Port Stephens - that's Newcastle, any basic wikipedia user can tell you that.
( spoilers, inconclusive thoughts on race dynamics )
What will you read next? I bought myself a copy of Jingo for Christmas. :D
What are you currently reading: pottering through Portrait of a Lady, still; made inroads on 'The Sex Myth', and right now rolling around gleefully in a newly-purchased e-book of "The Eyre Affair". Plus for work I'm getting back to Convergence Culture.
What have you recently finished reading: ie, in the last month.
The Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary RenaultMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I liked this *very much*. Renault seems to have got over her weird euphemistic compulsions around sex; Bagoas makes a great narrator; and my fixation on historical accuracy when it comes to minor details is pleased with the fact that the horses have no stirrups, and this is regularly indicated without mentioning the word 'stirrup'.
I just. Alexander. D'aww. Hephastion. D'aww. Bagoas, triple D'aww.
The Secret River by Kate GrenvilleMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I... don't know what to make of this. I was gripped by it, and spent a lot of time trying to track geographical details on the Hawkesbury via googlemaps. It's so easy to forget how *isolated* those parts were from the main settlement. On the other hand, I do not understand why Grenville has her protag trade coal with a penal colony in Port Stephens. There is neither penal colony nor coal in Port Stephens - that's Newcastle, any basic wikipedia user can tell you that.
( spoilers, inconclusive thoughts on race dynamics )
What will you read next? I bought myself a copy of Jingo for Christmas. :D