Reading Wednesday 24/05

[liv]

Recently read: The hundred trillion stories in your head, a bio of Ramón y Cajal by Benjamin Ehrlich. (Contains some detail of Ramón y Cajal's rather grim childhood.)

Currently reading: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. Partly because it's Hugo nominated, and partly because jack was excited to talk about it so I've borrowed his copy. I'm halfway through and enjoying it a lot; it's a bit like a somewhat grimmer version of Leckie's Ancillary books. It has too much gory detail of war and torture for my preferences but it's also a really engaging story.

Up next: Quite possibly Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, since I'd like to read at least the Hugo novels in time for Worldcon.

Comments

[davidgillon]

There's a bunch of Ninefox Gambit related shorts linked from Yoon's Dreamwidth https://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/ if you or Jack want to read some more.

[liv]

Ooh, good to know! I've finished the book, stayed up a bit late last night because it was too exciting, so maye I will in fact go and look for more material.

[ambyr]

I am very curious to hear your thoughts on Too Like the Lightning! I just finished it and desperately want to discuss it . . . but everyone else I know who would like to discuss it has also read the sequel, which makes for some asymmetrical discussion.

[rysmiel]

Well, as sequels go, they are more than usually one unit of story with two superfluous bits of cardboard added for reasons of size and bookbinding technology; I can see how that would make for limited discussion opportunities, but there are a fair few ways it is hard to approach it fairly without seeing the whole thing.

[liv]

Hmm, that makes me less inclined to read it, I'm unlikely to get through two long books before WorldCon, not if I want to read anything else at all, and it's only this volume that's nominated.