Recent reading
Jun. 9th, 2019 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI've had more books on the go than I usually have. First I started reading one from my bookcase, but when a library book came in I started on that instead. Then I went on a trip and didn't want to bring the library book, so I started on an ebook. And then I realized I had a book club coming up, so I started on the book club ebook instead. It feels like a series of nested parentheses, of which I have now closed two sets and am working on the library book.
The Afterward by E. K. Johnston (audiobook, 2019)
skygiants' rereading of the Belgariad inspired me with childhood nostalgia, but no, I am not going to reread those. So instead I read what is basically someone's genderswapped post-canon F/F Eddings fanfic! Well, with the numbers filed off. The gem is green instead of blue, but otherwise there's a party of (all-female) knights who were on a quest to destroy the evil god, along with a mage and a thief, etc. It's mostly about romance between the thief and the apprentice knight. I enjoyed it, but thought it was a bit too long--I didn't really need all those flashbacks to the quest.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (1990)
Reread in preparation for watching the miniseries. This was actually one of my first fandoms, and I wrote my very first fanfic for it! Which has recently been getting new kudos and comments, and hey, I don't actually cringe when rereading it.
But, okay, the actual canon. Reading it was a strange combination of fond remembrance and realizing that hey, it was a long time since I read this and I hardly remembered some of the details. Looking forward to watching the series now, based on what people have been saying about it.
The Afterward by E. K. Johnston (audiobook, 2019)
skygiants' rereading of the Belgariad inspired me with childhood nostalgia, but no, I am not going to reread those. So instead I read what is basically someone's genderswapped post-canon F/F Eddings fanfic! Well, with the numbers filed off. The gem is green instead of blue, but otherwise there's a party of (all-female) knights who were on a quest to destroy the evil god, along with a mage and a thief, etc. It's mostly about romance between the thief and the apprentice knight. I enjoyed it, but thought it was a bit too long--I didn't really need all those flashbacks to the quest. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (1990)
Reread in preparation for watching the miniseries. This was actually one of my first fandoms, and I wrote my very first fanfic for it! Which has recently been getting new kudos and comments, and hey, I don't actually cringe when rereading it.
But, okay, the actual canon. Reading it was a strange combination of fond remembrance and realizing that hey, it was a long time since I read this and I hardly remembered some of the details. Looking forward to watching the series now, based on what people have been saying about it.
