Recent reading

[luzula]

Kindred by Octavia Butler (audiobook read by Kim Staunton)
A really stellar performance by the audiobook reader! So good. And the book is very good too. It's more realist in tone than others I've read of hers, but has a lot of the same concerns as her more overtly SF work. I mean, the relationships between slaves and slave-owners have parallells in some of her relationships between humans and aliens, in that these relationships are both unequal and intimate, and that intimacy is deeply twisted and distorted by the inequality.

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden (sequel to The Bear and the Nightingale)
This is a page-turney fantasy adventure set in medieval Russia, featuring a cross-dressing girl and her horse companion. Recommended! Do read The Bear and the Nightingale first, though.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Glad the audiobook did the story justice. Excuse me if this is a double, but I can't recommend Butler's two Parable audiobooks too highly. The narrator is Lynne Thigpen, who was a famous English language model on children's tv as well as an excellent actress. Her voice is ... dreamy.

[luzula]

I've listened to those, too! And yes, the reading was really good.