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Reading Wednesday
Aug. 17th, 2022 08:08 amJust finished: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson. My post last week about how a book by the most popular fantasy writer of recent years was bad, actually, was one of the more engaging posts I've written in awhile, at least judging by the comment count. It was a fun discussion so if I may beg your forbearance, let's continue it.
( spoilers for the book but honestly you shouldn't read it )
Thank you for going on that little journey with me. Let's read a better book, shall we?
Currently reading: Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman. Oh yes, this is much more my thing.
Sol is an archivist who is also a vampire. And trans. And a fanboy. When the widow of a semi-famous TV writer delivers her papers to the archive, the two of them begin a prickly, complicated romance over their shared grief and eccentricities.
Everything about this so far is great. I'm sorry I don't have as much to say about good books as I do about bad ones, but I think you'll like this one. It's hilarious but also poignant, as it explores dysphoria both literally and metaphorically through the metaphor of the "vampire illness." Sol is a year into his transition when he becomes a vampire, and the tension between changing and unchanging bodies is fascinating.
When Elsie and Sol bond over the TV show that Elsie's dead wife wrote, it's a tenderhearted tribute to early 2000s fandom and what it means to fall in love with fiction that isn't maybe very good, but hit you at a time in your life when you're in need of obsessive passion.
This book is funny and messy and relatable and I'm absolutely loving it.
( spoilers for the book but honestly you shouldn't read it )
Thank you for going on that little journey with me. Let's read a better book, shall we?
Currently reading: Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman. Oh yes, this is much more my thing.
Sol is an archivist who is also a vampire. And trans. And a fanboy. When the widow of a semi-famous TV writer delivers her papers to the archive, the two of them begin a prickly, complicated romance over their shared grief and eccentricities.
Everything about this so far is great. I'm sorry I don't have as much to say about good books as I do about bad ones, but I think you'll like this one. It's hilarious but also poignant, as it explores dysphoria both literally and metaphorically through the metaphor of the "vampire illness." Sol is a year into his transition when he becomes a vampire, and the tension between changing and unchanging bodies is fascinating.
When Elsie and Sol bond over the TV show that Elsie's dead wife wrote, it's a tenderhearted tribute to early 2000s fandom and what it means to fall in love with fiction that isn't maybe very good, but hit you at a time in your life when you're in need of obsessive passion.
This book is funny and messy and relatable and I'm absolutely loving it.
