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Reading Wednesday
Jun. 3rd, 2020 03:03 pmSo tired and stressed but Wednesday is Wednesday.
Just finished: Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey. I loved this one. It's a fun detective noir/magic boarding school mashup, with a nice Chosen One subversion, and a wry sense of humour. I correctly guessed the killer but not the motive, but that's never the point, is it? The ending felt like it just kind of petered out, in a way that might suggest a sequel. This is something I'm finding with a lot of books I read these days. But overall just great.
All Systems Red and Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. It's only three years late but I've finally started reading the Murderbot Diaries novellas. If you've been living under a rock, this is a series about a security cyborg that hacks the governor module that allows it to be controlled by humans. Rather than go on a killing spree, it basically just wants to watch soap operas and be left alone, but the humans around it keep getting themselves in danger and it feels compelled to help.
I'm liking these a lot but I haven't experienced the intense bonding that the rest of the internet seems to feel. I think it's maybe because my experience of anxiety and depression is not the kind experienced by Murderbot, and also I'm not aro/ace, which seems to be the other thing that appeals. But they're highly entertaining and contain some good takes on what it means to be human/sentient, and excellent critiques of corporations and austerity, and I'll likely read the other ones in the series.
Currently reading: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskill. @morderbot described this as "what if Jane Austen but with more labour politics," which is the kind of thing you say to me if you want me to read a book. I'm not very far in but it's definitely got some of that humour and social critique that Austen did, plus the protagonist is an actual Disney princess, which is hilarious to me. I'm into it so far.
Just finished: Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey. I loved this one. It's a fun detective noir/magic boarding school mashup, with a nice Chosen One subversion, and a wry sense of humour. I correctly guessed the killer but not the motive, but that's never the point, is it? The ending felt like it just kind of petered out, in a way that might suggest a sequel. This is something I'm finding with a lot of books I read these days. But overall just great.
All Systems Red and Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. It's only three years late but I've finally started reading the Murderbot Diaries novellas. If you've been living under a rock, this is a series about a security cyborg that hacks the governor module that allows it to be controlled by humans. Rather than go on a killing spree, it basically just wants to watch soap operas and be left alone, but the humans around it keep getting themselves in danger and it feels compelled to help.
I'm liking these a lot but I haven't experienced the intense bonding that the rest of the internet seems to feel. I think it's maybe because my experience of anxiety and depression is not the kind experienced by Murderbot, and also I'm not aro/ace, which seems to be the other thing that appeals. But they're highly entertaining and contain some good takes on what it means to be human/sentient, and excellent critiques of corporations and austerity, and I'll likely read the other ones in the series.
Currently reading: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskill. @morderbot described this as "what if Jane Austen but with more labour politics," which is the kind of thing you say to me if you want me to read a book. I'm not very far in but it's definitely got some of that humour and social critique that Austen did, plus the protagonist is an actual Disney princess, which is hilarious to me. I'm into it so far.
