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Reading Wednesday
Jan. 21st, 2015 10:00 pmWhat did you finish reading
Stained Glass Monsters (Eferum #1), by Andrea K. Höst: I bought this for cheap when Höst had a sale before the end of 2014 where every book was ~1$ (although, for some reason, I think I paid more for this book. Still, it was a bargain). It was fairly short and I read it in one afternoon (i'm a very fast reader, though). I greatly enjoyed it! I wish it'd been longer and/or that there was a sequel. One is set up, at any rate.
( Loved it, wanted more lesbians )
House of Mystery (2008), writing by Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham, art by Luca Rossi (and others): I've read all 42 issues of this (plus the two (out of continuity?) annuals), which Wikipedia informs me was published as a total of 8 trade paperbacks so that's how I'll be counting it for my tally of books read.
( Also loved it! )
Murder Most Witchy (Wendy Lightower Mystery Book 1), by Emily Rylands: This was free on Amazon while I was looking for the Höst books and I liked the cover, so I grabbed it.
It was okay.
I enjoyed it, but I won't be reading anymore in this series. The whodunnit plot was a little flimsy and I'm not enjoying the romance triangle thing. I did greatly enjoy Wendy's relationship with her best friend Magda (Magda ♥) and her uncle. I even liked her friendship with Ian, but I'm not buying either that one or the Archer one as romantic. I mean, they're obviously romantic, I just don't like them.
What are you reading
I'm, embarrasingly enough, kind of between books right now, because I can't seem to manage to carve out some time for reading.
I'm currently in the process of reading the following, though:
Les Fleurs du Mal, by Charles Baudelaire: Say what you wnat about Baudelaire and it's probably all been said by now, but dude knows how to write. THAT's poetry. I often have to stop and read the poems out loud because they're just so goddamn beautiful! L'Albatros has been one of my favourites for a very long time, mostly for the last stanza (and the rest for how it sets it up):
You can find a bunch of translations of the whle thing here, of which I like this one of the previous stanza:
I'm excited to get to one of the poems who got this book banned in the first place.
I've made littel enough or no progress on any of The Art of War, Darshan, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Gustav Adolf Mossa: L'oeuvre symboliste: 1903-1918. This week, hopefully.
What are you reading next? (aka the to-read list)
A to-read list that is properly formatted, so I don't forget about books I wanted to read! Now updated with books I should have put on it a long time ago AND with recent recs I got.
Books that I have already: Prisoner (Echo's Wolf, Book 1) (Werewolf Marines 2) by Lia Silver, Darkness Over Cannae by Jenny Dolfen, Taking Stock by Scott Bartlett (yuleswap book 1), February by Lisa Moore (yuleswap book 2), The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan, The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Books that are out and that I haven't got: 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 Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, the last two books of Kate Eliott's Spiritwalker trilogy and whatever's out of the Craft Sequence series.
Books that aren't out yet (and when they're out): The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan (Autumn 2015), The Sleeping Life (Eferum, #2) by Andrea K. Höst (2015), Benjamin January #14 by Barbara Hambly (no idea), Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley (Summer 2015? Still unsure if I'm even going to be reading this one), the Tris book by Tamora Pierce (2015), whatever Jenny Dolfen's next project is (THAT ART!) and probably Robert Jackson Bennett's next book.
Also, comics. I will probably also be reading some comics.
Stained Glass Monsters (Eferum #1), by Andrea K. Höst: I bought this for cheap when Höst had a sale before the end of 2014 where every book was ~1$ (although, for some reason, I think I paid more for this book. Still, it was a bargain). It was fairly short and I read it in one afternoon (i'm a very fast reader, though). I greatly enjoyed it! I wish it'd been longer and/or that there was a sequel. One is set up, at any rate.
( Loved it, wanted more lesbians )
House of Mystery (2008), writing by Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham, art by Luca Rossi (and others): I've read all 42 issues of this (plus the two (out of continuity?) annuals), which Wikipedia informs me was published as a total of 8 trade paperbacks so that's how I'll be counting it for my tally of books read.
( Also loved it! )
Murder Most Witchy (Wendy Lightower Mystery Book 1), by Emily Rylands: This was free on Amazon while I was looking for the Höst books and I liked the cover, so I grabbed it.
It was okay.
I enjoyed it, but I won't be reading anymore in this series. The whodunnit plot was a little flimsy and I'm not enjoying the romance triangle thing. I did greatly enjoy Wendy's relationship with her best friend Magda (Magda ♥) and her uncle. I even liked her friendship with Ian, but I'm not buying either that one or the Archer one as romantic. I mean, they're obviously romantic, I just don't like them.
What are you reading
I'm, embarrasingly enough, kind of between books right now, because I can't seem to manage to carve out some time for reading.
I'm currently in the process of reading the following, though:
Les Fleurs du Mal, by Charles Baudelaire: Say what you wnat about Baudelaire and it's probably all been said by now, but dude knows how to write. THAT's poetry. I often have to stop and read the poems out loud because they're just so goddamn beautiful! L'Albatros has been one of my favourites for a very long time, mostly for the last stanza (and the rest for how it sets it up):
Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer ;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.
You can find a bunch of translations of the whle thing here, of which I like this one of the previous stanza:
Poets are like these lords of sky and cloud,
Who ride the storm and mock the bow's taut strings,
Exiled on earth amid a jeering crowd,
Prisoned and palsied by their giant wings.
I'm excited to get to one of the poems who got this book banned in the first place.
I've made littel enough or no progress on any of The Art of War, Darshan, The Kick-Ass Writer, La véritable histoire de Carthage et de Hannibal, Gustav Adolf Mossa: L'oeuvre symboliste: 1903-1918. This week, hopefully.
What are you reading next? (aka the to-read list)
A to-read list that is properly formatted, so I don't forget about books I wanted to read! Now updated with books I should have put on it a long time ago AND with recent recs I got.
Books that I have already: Prisoner (Echo's Wolf, Book 1) (Werewolf Marines 2) by Lia Silver, Darkness Over Cannae by Jenny Dolfen, Taking Stock by Scott Bartlett (yuleswap book 1), February by Lisa Moore (yuleswap book 2), The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan, The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
Books that are out and that I haven't got: 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 Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison, Hostage by Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown, the last two books of Kate Eliott's Spiritwalker trilogy and whatever's out of the Craft Sequence series.
Books that aren't out yet (and when they're out): The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan (Autumn 2015), The Sleeping Life (Eferum, #2) by Andrea K. Höst (2015), Benjamin January #14 by Barbara Hambly (no idea), Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley (Summer 2015? Still unsure if I'm even going to be reading this one), the Tris book by Tamora Pierce (2015), whatever Jenny Dolfen's next project is (THAT ART!) and probably Robert Jackson Bennett's next book.
Also, comics. I will probably also be reading some comics.