Recent reading
Jun. 6th, 2021 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaMy last actual booklogging post was more than a month ago! : / I just have less time for reading these days, I'm not sure why.
Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings (2020)
For book club; all of us were lukewarm towards this book. It is apparently a gothic, which is not a genre I know--I would have called it "creepy contemporary fantasy", or something. So it's possible I enjoyed it less because of not knowing the genre. When I first started reading, I thought, "oh, so it's going to be one of those books where every sentence has to be lush and poetic and contain an unexpected metaphor". But actually it eased off on that, and there are also perfectly simple sentences in it. I thought the setting (backwoods Australia) was the best thing about the book, though of course I can't know how accurate it is. For most of the book, everything is mysterious and creepy and I thought it would remain up to the reader's interpretation--but then near the end, the author decided to straight-up explain everything. I would have preferred a slow reveal.
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (2021)
Comfort reading about characters I already know! Honestly this novella felt a bit like reading fanfic; I enjoyed it a lot. Although why all the parentheses? Once I started thinking about them, they got on my nerves.
I've also been reading some fic, mostly from Yuletide 2020. I do enjoy putting the longer stories on my ereader while they're still anonymous, and later discovering that something particularly delightful was written by a friend of mine!
Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings (2020)
For book club; all of us were lukewarm towards this book. It is apparently a gothic, which is not a genre I know--I would have called it "creepy contemporary fantasy", or something. So it's possible I enjoyed it less because of not knowing the genre. When I first started reading, I thought, "oh, so it's going to be one of those books where every sentence has to be lush and poetic and contain an unexpected metaphor". But actually it eased off on that, and there are also perfectly simple sentences in it. I thought the setting (backwoods Australia) was the best thing about the book, though of course I can't know how accurate it is. For most of the book, everything is mysterious and creepy and I thought it would remain up to the reader's interpretation--but then near the end, the author decided to straight-up explain everything. I would have preferred a slow reveal.
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (2021)
Comfort reading about characters I already know! Honestly this novella felt a bit like reading fanfic; I enjoyed it a lot. Although why all the parentheses? Once I started thinking about them, they got on my nerves.
I've also been reading some fic, mostly from Yuletide 2020. I do enjoy putting the longer stories on my ereader while they're still anonymous, and later discovering that something particularly delightful was written by a friend of mine!
