Reading meme
Dec. 29th, 2012 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraThis was supposed to be posted Wednesday, but why not?
What I'm reading:
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of the author’s memoirs (the library didn't have the first in), in which at the age of 18 in 1933 he decided to walk the length of Europe. Absolutely stunning, assured prose style, and I had to take a break from it because I couldn’t write anything not under its influence. A compelling read.
Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire. I think this is a re-read, as I’m pretty sure I read the whole trilogy while standing in the university bookshop in my impoverished student days, although all I seem to have remembered are the Mara Jade bits. This is the 20th anniversary edition, with annotations by the author; a bit confusing given my lack of memory about what they’re referring to.
Rather a lot of Yuletide. I have The Marriage Masquerade open at the moment, a short sequel to Georgette Heyer’s The Talisman Ring, my favourite sensible Heyer (These Old Shades is my favourite melodramatic one).
Two massive (>300K word count) fanfics which feature branching timelines, so you get multiple diverging versions from the same set-up. One of these is a recent work that is still in progress (I have caught up with all the chapters in one time-line and am now exploring the others) and the other is a re-read that I last read in the black-and-white only coming out on newsgroups days. The timeline I liked most back then only irritates me now, but I’m getting more out of the other ones. Both are definitely not my id, but intersect in enough places and have enough else going on to be very readable.
What I've just read:
Even more Yuletide. Various source materials for my own story, currently nameless to maintain anonymity.
A bunch of original m/m romances, most recently a re-read of KA Mitchell’s Diving in Deep and her new But My Boyfriend Is (both in the same loose series as No Souvenirs, neither as good).
Volumes 1-19 of Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys. Brilliant, and I’m going to stop trying to guess what happens next, as I keep failing to anticipate just where he's prepared to push this. I put these down to write Yuletide as well.
What I'm reading next:
John le Carré’s A Murder of Quality, and the second in Mercedes Lackey’s Collegium series (I’ve been raiding the library). The rest of 20th Century Boys. I have also been saving my manga backlogs on Twin Spica and Full Metal Alchemist for the break. More Yuletide.
What I'm reading:
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of the author’s memoirs (the library didn't have the first in), in which at the age of 18 in 1933 he decided to walk the length of Europe. Absolutely stunning, assured prose style, and I had to take a break from it because I couldn’t write anything not under its influence. A compelling read.
Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire. I think this is a re-read, as I’m pretty sure I read the whole trilogy while standing in the university bookshop in my impoverished student days, although all I seem to have remembered are the Mara Jade bits. This is the 20th anniversary edition, with annotations by the author; a bit confusing given my lack of memory about what they’re referring to.
Rather a lot of Yuletide. I have The Marriage Masquerade open at the moment, a short sequel to Georgette Heyer’s The Talisman Ring, my favourite sensible Heyer (These Old Shades is my favourite melodramatic one).
Two massive (>300K word count) fanfics which feature branching timelines, so you get multiple diverging versions from the same set-up. One of these is a recent work that is still in progress (I have caught up with all the chapters in one time-line and am now exploring the others) and the other is a re-read that I last read in the black-and-white only coming out on newsgroups days. The timeline I liked most back then only irritates me now, but I’m getting more out of the other ones. Both are definitely not my id, but intersect in enough places and have enough else going on to be very readable.
What I've just read:
Even more Yuletide. Various source materials for my own story, currently nameless to maintain anonymity.
A bunch of original m/m romances, most recently a re-read of KA Mitchell’s Diving in Deep and her new But My Boyfriend Is (both in the same loose series as No Souvenirs, neither as good).
Volumes 1-19 of Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys. Brilliant, and I’m going to stop trying to guess what happens next, as I keep failing to anticipate just where he's prepared to push this. I put these down to write Yuletide as well.
What I'm reading next:
John le Carré’s A Murder of Quality, and the second in Mercedes Lackey’s Collegium series (I’ve been raiding the library). The rest of 20th Century Boys. I have also been saving my manga backlogs on Twin Spica and Full Metal Alchemist for the break. More Yuletide.
