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luzulaHa, I'm actually doing this on a Wednesday for once. My reading brain is beginning to come back, but my audiobook/podfic-listening brain is not back yet.
Selected short stories from El Aleph and Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges (read in Swedish)
I don't read Spanish, so as long as I'm reading in translation anyway, I might as well read this in Swedish as English. I enjoyed these, and my math-brain appreciated the twisty ideas. Although I have to say, I would much rather be in Dream's library in Sandman than in Borges' library of Babel. What a combinatorial nightmare!
Dreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell
I've now read and enjoyed all of MDR's books (though I eagerly anticipate the upcoming sequel to Doc), and I enjoyed this one, too, though it was not my favorite of hers. It's kind of early 20th-century historical RPF with a female OC main character? Much of it is a travelogue and there isn't as much narrative urgency as in her other books. But I liked the narrator and her dog, and also, T. E. Lawrence is in this book, written in a fascinating and sympathetic way.
I've read fic, too, but am too scatter-brained to write recs for that now (I have a good system for making myself leave feedback, but not one for reccing.)
Unrelatedly, I was asked if I wanted to participate in![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
poetree's theme week around fragment 16 of Sappho's poetry. So I set it to music, and you can hear me singing it here. I really enjoyed that!
Selected short stories from El Aleph and Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges (read in Swedish)
I don't read Spanish, so as long as I'm reading in translation anyway, I might as well read this in Swedish as English. I enjoyed these, and my math-brain appreciated the twisty ideas. Although I have to say, I would much rather be in Dream's library in Sandman than in Borges' library of Babel. What a combinatorial nightmare!
Dreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell
I've now read and enjoyed all of MDR's books (though I eagerly anticipate the upcoming sequel to Doc), and I enjoyed this one, too, though it was not my favorite of hers. It's kind of early 20th-century historical RPF with a female OC main character? Much of it is a travelogue and there isn't as much narrative urgency as in her other books. But I liked the narrator and her dog, and also, T. E. Lawrence is in this book, written in a fascinating and sympathetic way.
I've read fic, too, but am too scatter-brained to write recs for that now (I have a good system for making myself leave feedback, but not one for reccing.)
Unrelatedly, I was asked if I wanted to participate in
poetree's theme week around fragment 16 of Sappho's poetry. So I set it to music, and you can hear me singing it here. I really enjoyed that!
