Daily Reading (07 August 2015) and Weekend Reading

[nanila]

Today's post is a twofer! This is entirely self-interested because I FINISHED A BOOK yesterday which is a thing I have not managed for, er, some time now. Soooo...

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

AND/OR

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

Comments

[nanila]

I finished the ARC of the Sally Ride biography that emelbe left for me. \o/ It was pitched at a YA audience and I think it did pretty well, although I kind of yearned for more technical detail about her work with the shuttle's manipulator arm and on the accident investigation boards for Challenger and Columbia. I hadn't realised that she flew both her missions on Challenger. I have a vivid memory of the Challenger disaster - I was one of the many primary school children who watched it disintegrate on live television in my classroom. :/

It also made me want to pick up some of the science education books she wrote with her partner to keep in reserve for the children when they're a bit older.

[weaverbird]

Yay for finishing!

I was at work when Challenger blew - in a nursing home, where there were a hundred TVs, all watching it live. :(

[nanila]

It's funny how finishing one thing has made me feel so much better about my reading capacity.

That (nursing home TVs) sounds appalling. :( It was bad enough with one TV in a classroom, and a stunned teacher with no idea how to explain what had just happened to us.

[yuuago]

Congratulations on finishing something! :D

I've been slowly working my way through The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. It's about everything leading up to the first month of WWI, and so far I'm finding it fascinating.

Planned reading for the weekend is the webcomic Stand Still, Stay Silent, which I'm already partway through and absolutely loving so far. Post-apocalyptic northern Europe is totally my jam.

[nanila]

Thank you!

I hope you had an enjoyable weekend of reading.

[weaverbird]

Just arrived in the mail: the four City of Astreiant novels by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett. OMG so excite! Three guesses what I shall be reading today and over the weekend. *g*

*dolphin noises of squee*

[nanila]

I just read one of the reviews and it sounds like a fantastic series!

[weaverbird]

It really is - the stories are absorbing, the characters are memorable (the two leads are so likeable I can't even tell you), and the world-building just blows me away. I had read the last two but didn't own them, so when the whole lot were offered together I pounced on it. I've read other of Scott's work and never been disappointed - she's amazing.

(edited for typo)

[alexseanchai]

Woot book yay!

I skimmed a lot of The Handy Nutrition Answer Book yesterday. It didn't tell me much useful that I didn't already know, but it did (earlier in the week, when I was first reading through it) give me the push to get whole grains back in my diet. Which is making me feel better and more capable of doing things, so, win all around.

I plan to read my draft of a story I thought I'd finished writing months ago and then work on writing the new draft that expands on the backstory explicit and implicit in the old draft.

[nanila]

Thank you!

I hope you're still feeling capable, and that your weekend plans went well.

[azurelunatic]

Twitter and Dreamwidth; some nice long fanfic and I've started on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dairy_products but got held up at http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/milk-stone.htm and now have a hankering for very good costume jewelry that I'm not allergic to.

[nanila]

Wahey, I hope you had a fun weekend's reading, and possibly acquired costume jewelry!