Not really a reading Wesnesday post

[dhampyresa]

WHAT I FINISHED READING

REMEMBER THAT TIME SOMEONE WROTE ME A NOVEL? THAT NOVEL IS WHAT I READ THIS WEEK.


WHAT I'M READING RIGHT NOW

People's requests for history_exchange (sign-ups are open!) . I need to check each requests individually to make sure people don't game the system, but I haven't any problems so far either this year or last year. My participants are cool people.

(Also, the story I'm doing art for in WIP Big Bang -- I dropped out on the writing for that, I have too much going on. Art occupies a different space in my life than writing does, and I was going to have art in it anyway, so now it's art-for-someone instead of art-for-me. But no pressure!)


WHAT I'M READING NEXT

Books that I have already:

• Pyramids of London by Andrea K Höst


• Prisoner (Echo's WolfBook 1) (Werewolf Marines 2) by Lia Silver


• Taking Stock by Scott Bartlett


• February by Lisa Moore


• The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan


• The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett


• Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown


• Le Graal de l'Inframonde by Vanessa Callico and Diana Callico

Books that are out and that I haven't got: L'armée furieuse & Temps Glaciaires by Fred Vargas, Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, by Garth Nix, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, Melting Stones and Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce, The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, The Beginning Place by Ursula Le Guin, Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, the last two books of Kate Eliott's Spiritwalker trilogy, The Missing Queen by Samhita Arni, Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, whatever's out of the Craft Sequence series, Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Elisabeth Vonarburg, Lord of the Two Lands by Judith Tarr, Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter, Barbara Hambly's vampire series, Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw, The Idylls of the Queen by Phillys Ann Karr, Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar, City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett, Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds, The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins and Untamed by Anna Cowan.

Books that aren't out yet (and when they're out): The Sleeping Life (Eferum, #2) by Andrea K. Höst (2015), Benjamin January #14 by Barbara Hambly (no idea), the Tris book by Tamora Pierce (2015), The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (caveat), Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer and whatever Jenny Dolfen's next project is.

Also, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth Subramanian, via brigdh .


TV

IS ANYONE WATCHING CLEVERMAN IS IT ANY GOOD TALK TO ME PEOPLE I HAVE CONFLICTED FEELINGS OVER THE TRAILER

"CLEVERMAN - OFFICIAL TRAILER - ABCTV and Sundance TV" (Watch on YouTube)

And by "conflicted feelings", I mean: It looks awesome! But it's yet another dude getting superpowers and there's a kid getting shot in the trailer, sooooooooo idk. On the other hand, it seems like it could be a really interesting story! Also, the characters aren't quite grabbing me yet. Are there some prominent female characters? (Then again, I don't think I'm in any fit state to judge the merits of anything based on a trailer right now, so idk.)

Comments

[geckoholic]

So I'm not Aussie so I can't give as nuanced a reply as the previous commenter XD but I did enjoy the pilot and I'll keep with it to see how it goes. There is a bit of a lack of significant female characters rn, but I agree, I hope it improves because, yes, you don't cast actresses like that and then not use them much.

[dhampyresa]

Thank you! I think I'll try watching it.