What Are You Reading Wednesday
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liseuse
What did you recently finish reading?
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch – finally, after wading through it for several weeks! This book was recommended to me during the Snowflake Challenge when I’d mentioned I should read some other fiction with magic and try to branch out from the HP fandom. But I found the book surprisingly boring. Only the long action parts towards the end were exciting and then too much. I didn’t really mind the graphic violence, and the more scientific approach to magic was interesting, and I even liked some of the “river” characters. But I felt the narration was lacking, perhaps superficial. That must be my bad: I’ve got a weird taste. (I remember struggling to read 150 pages of the first novel in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson and giving up, bored.)
What are you currently reading?
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones – and this one I’ve loved from the very first page. This, too, is some kind of a murder mystery. But there is so much more we get to experience from this (perhaps unreliable) protagonist’s perspective. Both her thoughts and the world around her are deep, meaningful and just… alive.
What do you think you’ll read next?
One of these books I’ve got from the library – as now I can’t get anything else from there:
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
The first three I picked while I was with a friend and focused more on her than on what to choose, and the fourth one I reserved on the basis of a fandom rec.
liseuseWhat did you recently finish reading?
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch – finally, after wading through it for several weeks! This book was recommended to me during the Snowflake Challenge when I’d mentioned I should read some other fiction with magic and try to branch out from the HP fandom. But I found the book surprisingly boring. Only the long action parts towards the end were exciting and then too much. I didn’t really mind the graphic violence, and the more scientific approach to magic was interesting, and I even liked some of the “river” characters. But I felt the narration was lacking, perhaps superficial. That must be my bad: I’ve got a weird taste. (I remember struggling to read 150 pages of the first novel in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson and giving up, bored.)
What are you currently reading?
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones – and this one I’ve loved from the very first page. This, too, is some kind of a murder mystery. But there is so much more we get to experience from this (perhaps unreliable) protagonist’s perspective. Both her thoughts and the world around her are deep, meaningful and just… alive.
What do you think you’ll read next?
One of these books I’ve got from the library – as now I can’t get anything else from there:
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
The first three I picked while I was with a friend and focused more on her than on what to choose, and the fourth one I reserved on the basis of a fandom rec.
