Recent reading

[luzula]

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (audiobook, 2015)
I seem to be an audiobook roll. I think I got the rec for this one from isis? The narrative voice as interpreted by the audiobook reader is very enjoyable, though I sometimes blanked out a bit during action scenes and then wondered what was going on. But maybe that was my own inattention.

The Primeval Forests of Finland by Petri Keto-Tokoi and Timo Kuuluvainen
Lovely and substantial coffee-table book. I skimmed the chapters on ecology and biodiversity since I knew most of it, but the historical stuff was interesting, especially on slash-and-burn agriculture, which seems to have been going on much longer in Finland than in Sweden, and also the shape of the conservation debate and the similaries and differences compared to Sweden.

Comments

[glitteryv]

I DNF'd Karen Memory despite the many positive recs because I got extremely annoyed with the writing style.

Well, that's part of the reason. The other one is that I can process sci-fi and fantasy novels in audiobook form way better. There are exceptions, but there we are.

[luzula]

Did you listen to the audiobook or read it on paper/screen? I can imagine the style worked better as an audiobook.

[glitteryv]

I read it in ebook form. It irritated me like whoa because Karen's ~style~ had TERRIBLE grammar. Like, it was supposed to add a uniqueness that would help with the worldbuilding...

IIRC, I dropped the book around the 20% mark and have no intention to try it again in audiobook. :|