Wednesday reading meme
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dhampyresaWhat did you finish reading
Sold Down the River by Barbara Hambly: OMG THIS BOOK I want to hug everyone, except Robert and Simon Fourchet. Ben! Ben, Ben Ben! Ben, I love you, but willow bark is not something you should giving someone in Kiki's situation. Still, you're 9000% of a better doctor than anyone else, because wtf bleeding the dude with a heart condition? Yeah, that makes sense. Ben thinking Hannibal had forgotten about him broke my heart, but then Hannibal! "Not much for the derring-do", he says, saves children from burning building, he does! Also, great thinking with rendering the guns useless. Also, Shaw to the rescue! Shaw continues to hand Ben weapons. And then! And then! The scene at the end with Ben and Mohamed about Ben's dad! "My son's a free man. He can't learn that from a father who's a slave." Oh, my heart.
What are you reading
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff: Romans! And Britons! And I'm pretty sure the book wants me to be shipping Marcus/Cottia(/Esca?), but she's thirteen, idk if I can do this. Also, wow, reading this alongside the Benjamin January books really highlights the how different the conception of slavery is between 1830s New Orleans and Roman Britain. Also also, Cub is a very imaginative name for a wolfcub, Marcus.
Hannibal's Odyssey: The Environmental Background to the Alpine Invasion of Italia by William Mahaney: Still working through this one. It's not a very practical format, but it's very interesting. (It probably says a lot about me that my reaction to the possibility of finidng frozen Carthaginian soldiers in the Alps was "THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!")
What are you reading next
Die Upon A Kiss by Barbara Hambly. I finished Sold Down the River last night and haven't had time to start this one yet, but I am so excited to start reading it tonight.
I got my first blank kudo email from Ao3 today! I feel oddly accomplished.
Sold Down the River by Barbara Hambly: OMG THIS BOOK I want to hug everyone, except Robert and Simon Fourchet. Ben! Ben, Ben Ben! Ben, I love you, but willow bark is not something you should giving someone in Kiki's situation. Still, you're 9000% of a better doctor than anyone else, because wtf bleeding the dude with a heart condition? Yeah, that makes sense. Ben thinking Hannibal had forgotten about him broke my heart, but then Hannibal! "Not much for the derring-do", he says, saves children from burning building, he does! Also, great thinking with rendering the guns useless. Also, Shaw to the rescue! Shaw continues to hand Ben weapons. And then! And then! The scene at the end with Ben and Mohamed about Ben's dad! "My son's a free man. He can't learn that from a father who's a slave." Oh, my heart.
What are you reading
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff: Romans! And Britons! And I'm pretty sure the book wants me to be shipping Marcus/Cottia(/Esca?), but she's thirteen, idk if I can do this. Also, wow, reading this alongside the Benjamin January books really highlights the how different the conception of slavery is between 1830s New Orleans and Roman Britain. Also also, Cub is a very imaginative name for a wolfcub, Marcus.
Hannibal's Odyssey: The Environmental Background to the Alpine Invasion of Italia by William Mahaney: Still working through this one. It's not a very practical format, but it's very interesting. (It probably says a lot about me that my reaction to the possibility of finidng frozen Carthaginian soldiers in the Alps was "THAT WOULD BE SO COOL!")
What are you reading next
Die Upon A Kiss by Barbara Hambly. I finished Sold Down the River last night and haven't had time to start this one yet, but I am so excited to start reading it tonight.
I got my first blank kudo email from Ao3 today! I feel oddly accomplished.
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Date: 2014-02-19 11:21 pm (UTC)It's entertaining so far! Very different from the movie, though.
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Date: 2014-02-20 03:32 am (UTC)Oh, yes. I saw the movie first, but liked the book too. I should read more of Sutcliff's stuff.