Recent reading
Jun. 30th, 2017 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaThe Grey King by Susan Cooper
Reread. This is possibly my favorite in the series (though I haven't reread Silver On the Tree yet). The setting is really good, with the sheep-farming and the looming sinister hills, and also there is Bran. Oh Bran, I feel for him so much when Cafall dies. I like John Rowlands a lot, too, and how he both helps Will and questions what he's doing. I can't remember now if we get to hear more about his backstory? I guess I'll see in the next book.
After that one I flailed around a bit, not sure what I wanted to read. I read 50 pages of Malka Older's Infomocracy which is SF about a system called "micro-democracy" where the world is divided into sections of 100 000 people each and there are world-wide parties that try to win as many such sections as possible. I dunno, democracy is interesting and I'm sure the book wasn't bad, but it didn't grip me. Then I realized that what I actually wanted to read was my annual Heyer:
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
I really liked this and its lack of instant love/lust, and that it doesn't actually end in passion but companionship. It's interesting to see two reasonable people negotiating an awkward situation and trying to make the best of it. Although it did kind of annoy me that the book had to make Julia unsympathetic at the end.
I would also like to rec the fantasy novella Suradanna and the Sea byskygiants. In the author's words, it features "trade routes, magical fertilizer, and one girl's centuries-long effort to impress a woman who is already in a committed relationship with a boat". Much recommended--it was immediately gripping and I enjoyed it a lot!
Reread. This is possibly my favorite in the series (though I haven't reread Silver On the Tree yet). The setting is really good, with the sheep-farming and the looming sinister hills, and also there is Bran. Oh Bran, I feel for him so much when Cafall dies. I like John Rowlands a lot, too, and how he both helps Will and questions what he's doing. I can't remember now if we get to hear more about his backstory? I guess I'll see in the next book.
After that one I flailed around a bit, not sure what I wanted to read. I read 50 pages of Malka Older's Infomocracy which is SF about a system called "micro-democracy" where the world is divided into sections of 100 000 people each and there are world-wide parties that try to win as many such sections as possible. I dunno, democracy is interesting and I'm sure the book wasn't bad, but it didn't grip me. Then I realized that what I actually wanted to read was my annual Heyer:
A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
I really liked this and its lack of instant love/lust, and that it doesn't actually end in passion but companionship. It's interesting to see two reasonable people negotiating an awkward situation and trying to make the best of it. Although it did kind of annoy me that the book had to make Julia unsympathetic at the end.
I would also like to rec the fantasy novella Suradanna and the Sea by
skygiants. In the author's words, it features "trade routes, magical fertilizer, and one girl's centuries-long effort to impress a woman who is already in a committed relationship with a boat". Much recommended--it was immediately gripping and I enjoyed it a lot!
