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Nov. 30th, 2015 10:57 pmThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
For book club at work. In the first five pages, I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to keep reading this. Augh, the housewives! Housewives in the future, alien housewives on Mars; apparently a society cannot be imagined where the women are not housewives. /o\ Then I decided that to keep reading, I'd have to shift my perspective on this book. So now I think of it not as people in the 2000's meeting Martians, but as 1950's American men meeting their own reflected image. On those terms it's quite a good book, and parts of it have a sort of dreamy horror vibe.
Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal (#2 in the Glamourist Histories series)
I read and enjoyed the first one a while ago, but didn't actually know there were more. The first one felt complete in itself, too--it's a regency romance with added magic, ending in a wedding. But then![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jjhunter told me to read the rest of them. I enjoyed how this one expanded the magical world-building, and how there were some relationship issues and also some action, with the female main character in focus. It's good light reading. (And now I'm trying to define what I mean by "light" reading--I think what I mean is that the writing isn't dense and doesn't require much concentration, and that the plot pulls you along because you want to see what happens next.)
For book club at work. In the first five pages, I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to keep reading this. Augh, the housewives! Housewives in the future, alien housewives on Mars; apparently a society cannot be imagined where the women are not housewives. /o\ Then I decided that to keep reading, I'd have to shift my perspective on this book. So now I think of it not as people in the 2000's meeting Martians, but as 1950's American men meeting their own reflected image. On those terms it's quite a good book, and parts of it have a sort of dreamy horror vibe.
Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal (#2 in the Glamourist Histories series)
I read and enjoyed the first one a while ago, but didn't actually know there were more. The first one felt complete in itself, too--it's a regency romance with added magic, ending in a wedding. But then
jjhunter told me to read the rest of them. I enjoyed how this one expanded the magical world-building, and how there were some relationship issues and also some action, with the female main character in focus. It's good light reading. (And now I'm trying to define what I mean by "light" reading--I think what I mean is that the writing isn't dense and doesn't require much concentration, and that the plot pulls you along because you want to see what happens next.)
