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sorcyressAnd now a mini-meme, sourced from Jazzfish. It's "What are you reading?" Wednesday!
What are you reading?
Technically I'm between books at the moment, since I haven't actually opened a new one since touching down in California. So, the usual answer to that question, which is "bits and pieces of the internet, but especially LettersFromTitan.tumblr because I don't care if it's about Glee, Racheline writes better than I ever will and I want her words like breathing".
Yes, the thing I most regularly check into online is Rach's tumblr. Fight me.
What did you recently finish reading?
Ah, a much more interesting question. Last Wednesday and Thursday, I was subbing at the high school which meant that it was trivial to get over to the library afterwards. On Wednesday I checked out eight books, and then on Thursday I returned the five of those I had finished, and checked out five more to replace them. See, I don't read anywhere near as often as I used to, and part of the reason is exactly this, because when I read? I do. Not. Stop. It takes significant effort (or an extremely dense book --Dune springs to mind) for me to not consume novels in their entirety, without pause for obligation, neither work nor social.
So, in the last week, I've read the first four volumes of Unshelved, "Gamer Girl" by Mari Mancusi1, and the first four novels in L.A. Meyer's "Bloody Jack" series, which is an excellent historical fiction romp with a fine female main character who I relate to immensely --her impulsive nature, her practicality, her crude language... She's far more of an adventuresome pirate than I, but oh, give me another time and place and I would've been Miss Lieutenant Jacky Faber, renowned in story and song.
I read the last one and a half of those on the plane(s) to California (it took me about three hours start to finish to devour the fourth. That's 528 pages to give you an idea of my reading speed. "Voracious" hardly covers it.), as well as A Taste for Death, the one Modesty Blaise paperback I own. I had thought I was somewhere in the middle of Taste for Death, but everything, even the ending, seemed vaguely familiar, so now I'm left wondering if I was in the middle of a different MB novel, or if I had finished this one and forgotten that fact. At any rate, they're damnably hard to get my hands on, so it's probably not going to be an issue until the next time I'm in Chicago for any length of time.
It's been a good week for books. Outside of the novel format, I've caught up on Homestuck, and been reading little bits and pieces of the internet --my limited livejournal friends' page and LFT as noted before.
What do you think you'll read next?
I have the fifth Bloody Jack book just waiting in my bag for the flight home. I mean, I might start it sooner than that, but there is a certain amount of my mind that finds it outrageous to be merely reading when I have a mek in my presence, what with the never getting to see him and all.
I was also gifted a copy of "Gun Machine", by Warren Ellis upon my arrival to the airport (it was wrapped in a fake flower, *wibbles*) and when mek learned I had never read any of John Green's stuff, he gave me his second copy of The Fault in Our Stars. So one of those things is what I will read, or all of those things, in that order. Once back home, I fully intend to grab the next two volumes of Unshelved and the next four Bloody Jack novels, and then I intend to maybe read the other books I checked out from the library, which includes an awesome-looking historfic novel called "Ladies in Waiting", and some nonfic, one about numbers and one about clothes. I do like me some clothes!
Dang, I guess this mini-meme was not so mini. I am not very good at not talking a lot about things I am excited by, which pretty much always includes books and fictional worlds.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: It's okay, nothing more. It felt very strongly of the groups I was a part of as a teenager, and I respected it for that, but of the three major plot twists, one was weak and one was stupid and frustrating. The third was just lovely though, and much of this book takes place in what are essentially Everquest chatlogs, and gawdamn does that feel like home.
What are you reading?
Technically I'm between books at the moment, since I haven't actually opened a new one since touching down in California. So, the usual answer to that question, which is "bits and pieces of the internet, but especially LettersFromTitan.tumblr because I don't care if it's about Glee, Racheline writes better than I ever will and I want her words like breathing".
Yes, the thing I most regularly check into online is Rach's tumblr. Fight me.
What did you recently finish reading?
Ah, a much more interesting question. Last Wednesday and Thursday, I was subbing at the high school which meant that it was trivial to get over to the library afterwards. On Wednesday I checked out eight books, and then on Thursday I returned the five of those I had finished, and checked out five more to replace them. See, I don't read anywhere near as often as I used to, and part of the reason is exactly this, because when I read? I do. Not. Stop. It takes significant effort (or an extremely dense book --Dune springs to mind) for me to not consume novels in their entirety, without pause for obligation, neither work nor social.
So, in the last week, I've read the first four volumes of Unshelved, "Gamer Girl" by Mari Mancusi1, and the first four novels in L.A. Meyer's "Bloody Jack" series, which is an excellent historical fiction romp with a fine female main character who I relate to immensely --her impulsive nature, her practicality, her crude language... She's far more of an adventuresome pirate than I, but oh, give me another time and place and I would've been Miss Lieutenant Jacky Faber, renowned in story and song.
I read the last one and a half of those on the plane(s) to California (it took me about three hours start to finish to devour the fourth. That's 528 pages to give you an idea of my reading speed. "Voracious" hardly covers it.), as well as A Taste for Death, the one Modesty Blaise paperback I own. I had thought I was somewhere in the middle of Taste for Death, but everything, even the ending, seemed vaguely familiar, so now I'm left wondering if I was in the middle of a different MB novel, or if I had finished this one and forgotten that fact. At any rate, they're damnably hard to get my hands on, so it's probably not going to be an issue until the next time I'm in Chicago for any length of time.
It's been a good week for books. Outside of the novel format, I've caught up on Homestuck, and been reading little bits and pieces of the internet --my limited livejournal friends' page and LFT as noted before.
What do you think you'll read next?
I have the fifth Bloody Jack book just waiting in my bag for the flight home. I mean, I might start it sooner than that, but there is a certain amount of my mind that finds it outrageous to be merely reading when I have a mek in my presence, what with the never getting to see him and all.
I was also gifted a copy of "Gun Machine", by Warren Ellis upon my arrival to the airport (it was wrapped in a fake flower, *wibbles*) and when mek learned I had never read any of John Green's stuff, he gave me his second copy of The Fault in Our Stars. So one of those things is what I will read, or all of those things, in that order. Once back home, I fully intend to grab the next two volumes of Unshelved and the next four Bloody Jack novels, and then I intend to maybe read the other books I checked out from the library, which includes an awesome-looking historfic novel called "Ladies in Waiting", and some nonfic, one about numbers and one about clothes. I do like me some clothes!
Dang, I guess this mini-meme was not so mini. I am not very good at not talking a lot about things I am excited by, which pretty much always includes books and fictional worlds.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: It's okay, nothing more. It felt very strongly of the groups I was a part of as a teenager, and I respected it for that, but of the three major plot twists, one was weak and one was stupid and frustrating. The third was just lovely though, and much of this book takes place in what are essentially Everquest chatlogs, and gawdamn does that feel like home.
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on 2013-02-21 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
on 2013-02-21 04:39 am (UTC)Stop stealing my life.
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on 2013-02-22 10:22 pm (UTC)I don't allow myself to read scifi books by myself anymore -- elusiveat and I read books to each other instead. It's very nice.
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on 2013-02-22 10:30 pm (UTC)I'd love to find a partner who would read me to sleep, or who would let me read to them. I read to the children I babysit, but it's hardly the same, and the books are *not* in the same category as what I'd like to be hearing.
~Sor
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on 2013-02-22 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2013-02-23 01:52 am (UTC)~Sor
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on 2013-02-23 02:05 am (UTC)PM me your email address if you want to be added to the announcement list. :-)
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on 2013-02-27 10:58 pm (UTC)What are you reading?
I am sad to report that I am currently not reading anything at the moment.
What did you recently finish reading?
I am actually happy to report that I recently finished reading the autobiography of Sandy Koufax, a famous Dodgers pitcher in the 50s and 60s. It was creepily perfect timing given the fact that he recently agreed to help out current Dodgers pitchers during spring training. He may have agreed to be a regular season coach, but I can't recall. Also, there was the whole Mike Piazza / Dodgers deabcle which made the book waaaaay prescient...
What do I think I'll read next?
Well, it's hard to say. I've got a couple options. I kind of have my eye on a book about Satchel Paige (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satchel_Paige).
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on 2013-02-24 08:30 am (UTC)