Sep. 28th, 2019

luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (2019, audiobook)
Everyone has been reading this, and yes, I liked it too. I think it was a good choice to listen to it as an audiobook--it's got a sort of dreamy and poetic quality that made it kind of float by as I listened. I might possibly have become frustrated by these same qualities if I had read it as a book instead, because there's a lot about the worldbuilding that isn't really filled in.

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (1932)
Original in German; I read it in English. I read about this in [personal profile] skygiants' journal and was intrigued. The main character (Doris) is both naive and aware of the material conditions of her world. She's cynical, but also has empathy for the people around her. She's funny, but she's also sometimes starving on street corners and also fascism is on the rise, but she doesn't really pay attention to that. Or on the occasions when she tries, men try to pick her up instead.
luzula: a Luzula pilosa, or hairy wood-rush (Default)
Title: the leaning grasses and two lights above the sea
Author: [personal profile] toft
Reader: [personal profile] luzula
Fandom: Earthsea
Characters: Tenar, Seserakh, Ged
Rating: G
Length: 24 m 58 s
Author's summary: One year after the wedding, a procession comes up the mountain from Gont Harbor.
Notes: This was one of my favorite stories from last year's Yuletide! It has Le Guin's appreciation of domestic daily life, and it's full of details that make it come alive. It's also lovely to see Seserakh through Tenar's eyes.

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