What Are You Reading Wednesday

[lydamorehouse]

What am I reading? What have I read?

I've been very slowly making my way through Scarlett still, which I think I mentioned last week. Part of my problem with things that I can't finish in one sitting these days is that, if I set the book down at all, some fresh horror will hit the news cycle and I lose days before I get back to it properly. I did manage to read two volumes of Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma as well as various yaoi titles (Warehouse, a Korean manhwa, and Ai ga Matteru by Abe Akane) though, which is a marked improvement over the last several weeks.

I've got a ton of stuff in my TBR pile, actually, so I might want to hop to--including a graphic novel that I backed the kickstarter for called As the Crow Files. The actual print copies showed up on the door, so that's a huge yay.  

Otherwise, yeah, it's November, folks. In 17 days, I will turn 50.

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[offcntr]

Got about halfway through Doctorow's Walkaway before I had to, um, walk away. Reminded me of another one I bounced hard off of years ago, L. Neil Smith's The American Zone. Too much time with the author's politics, too few characters I care about. Right now I'm stalled in the middle of Larry Campbell's The Lost Fleet: Relentless. Author just introduced an incredibly stock antagonist ("Fighting Falco") and I haven't decided whether to soldier on and see if he does anything new and different, or just bail.

Currently, I'm reading Edmund de Waal's The White Road, a combined history/memoir on the subject of porcelain. I like it, but can only manage a bit at a time, which is good, as I need to be spending time glazing pots for my holiday show firings, and blowing half the afternoon reading a novel doesn't get things done.

[lydamorehouse]

Yeah, this is your busiest time, for sure. I've had lots of books, too, that I've dropped out of. Some I go back to and love and others... meh, not so much. I feel like I've never much cottoned to Cory Doctorow, despite the fact that I really WANTED to like his stuff. The other one is China Meiville, though to be fair to both of them, I think I only tried one of each before they went onto the mental "nope" author list. I should probably try again.

[offcntr]

Well I really liked Smith's Probability Broach. After it won an award for "Best Libertarian Fiction," though, the sequels got preachier and preachier.

[offcntr]

Edit: The Lost Fleet book is Fearless. Still haven't decided what to do with it, and am further distracted, as Ms. Marvel: Civil War has come in.