Very quickly, my WWW Wednesday!
What are you currently reading?
Non-fiction: What’s Your Pronoun? by Dennis Baron. I’ve got a little bogged down in the history of invented pronouns, and it’s mostly actually so far about finding a gender-neutral pronoun for when you don’t know the gender of the person you’re talking about or are talking gender-neutral possibilities. The next bit I think has more about non-binary pronouns, which I’m more interested in.
Fiction: actually, nothing really actively. I still have Feed half-finished, and should pick it back up.
What have you recently finished reading?
An ARC of Emily Tesh’s Drowned Country. I enjoyed it at least as much as the first book; it makes a nice little duology, though I would happily read more adventures of Silver’s mother tearing around the country. I am not wholly sure about the end; it feels a little too pat, but also in a nice way.
What are you planning to read next?
As usual lately, I don’t really know. I’d like to finish or finally DNF Castle Skull (John Dickson Carr) and Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky), so maybe I will turn my attention back to those!
What are you guys reading?
Of these titles I’m looking forward especially to your review of ‘What’s Your Pronoun?’, Nikki.
Like you, I have several titles on the go, Maria Sachiko Cecire’s study ‘Re-Enchanted’, Jenny Nimmo’s Snow Spider trilogy, and Edith Wharton’s ‘Ethan Frome’ in particular: non-fiction, children’s fiction and a classic all helping to keep me distracted from the tedium of not going out.
It was an interesting survey, though it did keep getting a bit bogged down in reiterating very similar points.
Sounds like a good selection!