Recent reading
Dec. 1st, 2017 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaDäggdjur by Anders Bjärvall and Staffan Ullström (Mammals)
A field guide to wild mammals in Europe. Yes, I read this straight through (though skimming the entries about some animals not found in Sweden). There's so much I don't know about mammals, so this was interesting.
Then I read about a third of Nisi Shawl's Everfair, which I guess is good but it just wasn't what I felt like reading right then. Will continue later.
The Edge Between the Sand and the Stars by rain_sleet_snow
Apparently what I did feel like reading was book-length Star Wars fic! This is really good, you guys. It's a Rey-centric fic which I'm glad to have read before it's jossed by the next movie. The pairing is Rey/Finn/Poe but there's so much besides the pairing. There's worldbuilding and plot and Rey's Jedi training and Rey searching for her family. In fact this fic kind of reminds me of some of my own due South fics in that it is interested in family history and family bonds (as well as non-family bonds) and sense of place. It is a solid Bechdel-test pass and I really like Rey's relationship with Luke and Leia.
Ha ha, and now I see that the same author has written Obi-Wan Kenobi/Owen Lars/Beru Whitesun. That is totally the Star Wars equivalent of Bob/Buck/Caroline.
A field guide to wild mammals in Europe. Yes, I read this straight through (though skimming the entries about some animals not found in Sweden). There's so much I don't know about mammals, so this was interesting.
Then I read about a third of Nisi Shawl's Everfair, which I guess is good but it just wasn't what I felt like reading right then. Will continue later.
The Edge Between the Sand and the Stars by rain_sleet_snow
Apparently what I did feel like reading was book-length Star Wars fic! This is really good, you guys. It's a Rey-centric fic which I'm glad to have read before it's jossed by the next movie. The pairing is Rey/Finn/Poe but there's so much besides the pairing. There's worldbuilding and plot and Rey's Jedi training and Rey searching for her family. In fact this fic kind of reminds me of some of my own due South fics in that it is interested in family history and family bonds (as well as non-family bonds) and sense of place. It is a solid Bechdel-test pass and I really like Rey's relationship with Luke and Leia.
Ha ha, and now I see that the same author has written Obi-Wan Kenobi/Owen Lars/Beru Whitesun. That is totally the Star Wars equivalent of Bob/Buck/Caroline.
