What Are You Reading Wednesday
Apr. 24th, 2019 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricCurrently Reading:
Fiction: NK Jemison, 'How Long Till Black Future Month'. I did not manage to get to feminist book club for this, but I'm enjoying the book. Brian Jacques, 'Redwall', which: wow, that is some mediocre prose right there. Also some incoherent monastic structures.
Lit Mag: Technically still Meanjin summer 2018, but I've not looked at it for a while
Academic: Nothing
Other non-fiction: Laren Elkin, 'Flanêuse', which... is aggravating me. The woman has a PhD, she knows how to analyse, but this is not an example of analysis. It's just... stuff. Mostly stuff about white women. It's not even particularly engagingly written.
Recently Finished:
Nothing, not even podcasts.
Up Next: I need to get to Hand of Knaves, and I bought both 'Educated' and 'Banana Fish v 1' (wild mismatch, much?) in Kino on the weekend.
Music Notes:
I'm listening to a lot of Janelle Monae this week, cut with occasional Alannah Myles, and when I'm at home, Lady Gaga via spotify. I somehow completely missed her 2016 album Joanne (weirdly country turn?), and I like it a lot. I have also listened through Lizzo's entire spotify catalogue, after hearing good things about the new album. New album is indeed good, but I think I like 'Lizzobangers' better.
Fiction: NK Jemison, 'How Long Till Black Future Month'. I did not manage to get to feminist book club for this, but I'm enjoying the book. Brian Jacques, 'Redwall', which: wow, that is some mediocre prose right there. Also some incoherent monastic structures.
Lit Mag: Technically still Meanjin summer 2018, but I've not looked at it for a while
Academic: Nothing
Other non-fiction: Laren Elkin, 'Flanêuse', which... is aggravating me. The woman has a PhD, she knows how to analyse, but this is not an example of analysis. It's just... stuff. Mostly stuff about white women. It's not even particularly engagingly written.
Recently Finished:
Nothing, not even podcasts.
Up Next: I need to get to Hand of Knaves, and I bought both 'Educated' and 'Banana Fish v 1' (wild mismatch, much?) in Kino on the weekend.
Music Notes:
I'm listening to a lot of Janelle Monae this week, cut with occasional Alannah Myles, and when I'm at home, Lady Gaga via spotify. I somehow completely missed her 2016 album Joanne (weirdly country turn?), and I like it a lot. I have also listened through Lizzo's entire spotify catalogue, after hearing good things about the new album. New album is indeed good, but I think I like 'Lizzobangers' better.