Recent reading
Dec. 25th, 2020 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaOkay, let's see if I can dash off some booklogging before Yuletide opens...
Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)
I was wondering if I'd enjoy Murderbot as much at novel length--maybe all that action would grow too much for me? But no, I still enjoyed it a lot. Good entertainment at a time when I needed some braincandy!
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020)
Okay, yes, I liked this a lot. I read some reviews afterwards and saw that some people saw it as being a metaphor for trauma or disability, but I suppose I am too literal a reader, because I just took the House as it was. : ) The gradual reveal definitely kept me reading, but I think my main feeling about the book was that I just liked the main character a lot and felt sort of...protective of him? I mean, it was obvious that most of the people he met did not really wish him well (until the end). I liked his intellectual curiosity, his resourcefulness in surviving, his trust in the world and in other people, and his love and appreciation of where he was. I am relieved that the ending did not betray those qualities in him. In conclusion, would love to visit the House with him; maybe there are lichens and mosses growing on the stones of the House which I can help him catalogue! Although only visit--the ecosystem seems a little too impoverished for me. : )
...and now Yuletide has opened. *goes to check it out*
Network Effect by Martha Wells (2020)
I was wondering if I'd enjoy Murderbot as much at novel length--maybe all that action would grow too much for me? But no, I still enjoyed it a lot. Good entertainment at a time when I needed some braincandy!
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020)
Okay, yes, I liked this a lot. I read some reviews afterwards and saw that some people saw it as being a metaphor for trauma or disability, but I suppose I am too literal a reader, because I just took the House as it was. : ) The gradual reveal definitely kept me reading, but I think my main feeling about the book was that I just liked the main character a lot and felt sort of...protective of him? I mean, it was obvious that most of the people he met did not really wish him well (until the end). I liked his intellectual curiosity, his resourcefulness in surviving, his trust in the world and in other people, and his love and appreciation of where he was. I am relieved that the ending did not betray those qualities in him. In conclusion, would love to visit the House with him; maybe there are lichens and mosses growing on the stones of the House which I can help him catalogue! Although only visit--the ecosystem seems a little too impoverished for me. : )
...and now Yuletide has opened. *goes to check it out*
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Date: 2020-12-25 10:07 pm (UTC)Congrats, hope your throat is fine and you're carousing with your folks.
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Date: 2020-12-26 05:04 am (UTC)Yes, I like that the House kind of works as a metaphor but that it's also very much its own thing, comprehensible only as what it is—and that Piranesi-Matthew accepts and understands it so well. And he is a sweetheart, isn't he—I love his intellectual curiosity as well, and the quiet wisdom of his love for the House.
would love to visit the House with him; maybe there are lichens and mosses growing on the stones of the House which I can help him catalogue!
:D Oh, I'm sure there are! Haha, I did appreciate all those birds, too—the image of a starling murmuration in those vast halls is an amazing one...
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