Weekend reading

[nanila]

What are you planning to read this weekend? Everything counts! Menus, maps and mysteries included.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I ... may have let some important, urgent, ASAP reading get a little overdue. So, over the next three days I need to read 1. the rest of the analysis of variance book, 2. at least two chapters of the book that I *think* is right for the first uni module of the semester, 3. at least some of ...'s book that I promised to proof/make nice comments on, 4. at least one of the books sitting on my bureau.

I'll be over here, procrastinating. These, these are my procrastinatin' feet.

[nanila]

*waves pom-poms*
*makes tea for you and your procrastinatin' feet*
Biscuit?

[fred_mouse]

thank you! One chapter, one short story down. But that chapter was tortuous, and made my head hurt. I think I need to find one of the easier options to be going on with.

[whereisirisnow]

Good luck with all the reading! ;)

[fred_mouse]

thank you. Unfortunately, life/health has caught up with me, and I haven't quite had the brain for Serious Reading.

[nanila]

Social media catchup. And I'm going to be starting the new Kamila Shamsie book that emelbe left for me.

[azurelunatic]

Some reading page, some twitter, probably things off the fanfiction stack. My aunt is having a game night, so I imagine I will be reading some game instructions.

Also, I need to make an Introduction to Rainbow Tables sheet for this evening's "rainbow table" at the Diversity-themed beer bash, which is a terrible joke but I am pleased by it.

[nanila]

I hope it all went swimmingly!

[azurelunatic]

The game of the moment was Cards Against Humanity, so while I did not read the instructions, I did wind up reading many cards, and explaining several.

[weaverbird]

Twitter, bedtime reading (currently fanfic), weaving patterns, and as little work-related stuff as possible. *g*

[nanila]

Excellent. I hope you stayed off the work-stuff. :)

[whereisirisnow]

I plan to read the map of Zurich Zoo :)

[fred_mouse]

ooh. Is this for a planned visit, or for immediate pleasure?

[whereisirisnow]

Immediate pleasure I think: we went to the zoo today :)

[fred_mouse]

ah. I hope you all had fun then!

[miss_s_b]

Really REALLY need to do Hugo reading.

[fred_mouse]

*sympathies*

That was me last year. I gave myself permission to give up on any book that caused me to value housework (or various other procrastination heavy tasks) more highly than keeping reading!

[miss_s_b]

I've just got two novels to go; everything else done

[fred_mouse]

\o/

Do you have an opinion on the quality of the slate?

(I decided not to read them this year, because I'm overcommitted elsewhere, but I'm eagerly following comments and discussions)

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, I think that most of the things on the slate are actually, objectively, rubbish, and the reason stuff like that wasn't getting voted for was not due to political correctness or whatever, it was because the kind of stuff that they like is actually, objectively, rubbish.

And this is not me coming at it from some nancy lefty pinko handwringer perspective (although, you know, chair of my local Liberal Democrats and on the exec of LGBT+ lib dems, so I AM a nancy lefty pinko handwringer) it's just that the stuff they've nominated is so BORING and badly written and unoriginal. I don't want to read the same story I've read a thousand times before, I want to read something new and different.

[fred_mouse]

pretty much what I was expecting then - there was the one item on the ballot last year that I identified as having been put there in a like manner, and it was dreadfully written. I didn't even get far enough through to decide whether the plot was any good!

.. I want to read something new and different.
Yes. My expectation with the Hugos is that at least I'll read something new *and* worthwhile, because I don't have enough time to read all the dross.

[dhampyresa]

Finish Beyond Cannae if I can find it. Read some of Trickster Makes This World.

[nanila]

I hope the [STUFF THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED] didn't interfere too much with your excellent reading plans!

[dhampyresa]

It did, sadly. It pretty much killed all my energy to do anything but faff around on the internet.

[nanila]

Oof, sorry to hear that. Hoepfully after today there will be energy for other things!

[dhampyresa]

It is solved! And I managed to finish reading a science magazine I'd been plucking at for a while.

[chickenfeet]

Had a go at rereading the Hawking/Penrose lectures on the nature of spacetime but got a bad case of the dumbs.

[nanila]

Oof. That's weighty going; I hope next time you re-read you've more energy for it.