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Oct. 15th, 2017 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI just wrote 700 words of Yuletide fic, and it feels glorious to be writing again! ♥ It's been almost a year.
Version Control by Dexter Palmer (audiobook read by January LaVoy)
I really liked the audiobook reader, and honestly I would probably have put the book down if I'd been reading rather than listening. Not that it was a bad book, and I'm not sorry I finished it, but it's not among my favorite of the year either. So what's it about? It is about 1) a family (mother, father, child), 2) the evils of big data, 3) time travel. The angle on time travel is fairly interesting, but I felt the book was a bit too long and a bit slow.
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
For my fannish book club. This book, OTOH, is very short. Le Guin is one of my favorite authors and this was one of the few books of hers that I hadn't read. But we all agreed it was a bit slight, and balanced on the fence between novella and novel in a way that made us wonder whether it shouldn't have been either shorter or longer. I mean, this was written after both The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both of which have so much more compexity and depth than this book. Anyway, the book is about conflict resolution among human settlers on an alien world. It does have something I always appreciate in Le Guin, though, which is a sense of community.
Version Control by Dexter Palmer (audiobook read by January LaVoy)
I really liked the audiobook reader, and honestly I would probably have put the book down if I'd been reading rather than listening. Not that it was a bad book, and I'm not sorry I finished it, but it's not among my favorite of the year either. So what's it about? It is about 1) a family (mother, father, child), 2) the evils of big data, 3) time travel. The angle on time travel is fairly interesting, but I felt the book was a bit too long and a bit slow.
The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
For my fannish book club. This book, OTOH, is very short. Le Guin is one of my favorite authors and this was one of the few books of hers that I hadn't read. But we all agreed it was a bit slight, and balanced on the fence between novella and novel in a way that made us wonder whether it shouldn't have been either shorter or longer. I mean, this was written after both The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, both of which have so much more compexity and depth than this book. Anyway, the book is about conflict resolution among human settlers on an alien world. It does have something I always appreciate in Le Guin, though, which is a sense of community.
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Date: 2017-10-16 07:19 am (UTC)That does sound interesting! Thanks for the tip. : )
And yeah, I'm having good flow, or at least I wrote 700 words at one go and was really happy with them. This fandom is a good fit for my writing style, I think. How's your assignment going?
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Date: 2017-10-16 02:50 pm (UTC)I've only looked at my assignment briefly because I'm concentrating on Trick or Treat until the end of the month, but it's a fandom and character request I'm comfortable with. I've been writing a lot this year, though, a few more fests than I typically commit to.