It’s Wednesday again! So here’s the usual check-in. You can go to Taking On A World Of Words to chat with everyone else who has posted what they’re reading right now!
What are you currently reading?
Fiction: The Grace of Kings, by Ken Liu. I was warned by friends who found it really slow that I might not like it… well, I’m not sure about the liking it or not, but I’m definitely not finding it too slow. I haven’t read for a day or two because I wasn’t feeling like it, but I’ve been reading it in chunks whenever I do.
Non-fiction: The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, by Donald R. Prothero, which the library ordered for me in ebook on my request. It would probably be better in pbook format because it’s got a lot of pictures, but it’s not so bad in ebook; I’m glad I’m reading it, but also glad I didn’t buy it for £27! It’s nothing I haven’t read before, but it’s always fun to spend some time with dinosaurs.
What have you recently finished reading?
Uhhh, interesting question. Oh: Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark. I’m still thinking this one over. I found the idea of members of the Ku Klux Klan being literal monsters a bit… simplistic? That’s not quite the word I want. Obvious? And I never wholly warmed to it, though I appreciated a lot of aspects of the novella. I want to read around some other reviews and see if they help it click into place for me, before I write my review. (And of course Tor used to say not to post a review until two weeks before publication; I still stick to that, though most bloggers don’t… I’m auto-approved on Netgalley, though, so I don’t see that approval message anymore.)
What will you be reading next?
Still Ninth House, most likely; I’m also eyeing The Lost Boys, by Gina Perry — I was eager to read it anyway, and now it fits a book club prompt (as a book in the 300s in the Dewey Decimal System). I loved Perry’s book on Stanley Milgram’s experiments, and it looks like she’s done much the same here with pulling apart Sherif Muzafer’s experiments a bit and examining how they tick and where they go wrong.
So what are you reading at the moment?
Great list of books! I’m still looking to take the plunge when it comes to reading from Leigh Bardugo so good luck with Ninth House. Happy reading!
Here’s my WWW Wednesday post.
I rarely DNF books but The Grace of Kings was one of them. I just couldn’t get into it at all and, by the time I gave up, I didnt really want to! I hope you have a more joyful reading experience as I’ve read so many amazing reviews for it!!
I’m not sure what I think of it yet, but I’m at least not finding it an onerous read!
I’m glad it’s not! I really feel it just wasn’t for me at the time I started it. I’ve read plenty a book that I’m so very glad I persevered with after a slow start!
I zoomed through The Green Man’s Foe by Juliet McKenna (…and I’m definitely now on the bus. Will read future books) and am now immersed in The Animals At Lockwood Manor which is shaping up as a queer period romance with Gothic airs that I’m enjoying considerably more than I expected to.
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The Green Man’s Heir is on my “next up” pile, which… is often speculative, and thus the actual reading may not come to pass, but somehow various friends have been mentioning it lately!
Ohhh I had come across The Animals At Lockwood Manor and then forgot to actually look it up. Good to know it’s caught your interest!