Weekend reading roundup

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I actually read the assigned readings for class: two segments of Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin. It is...not anything I would have stuck with this long if I didn't have external compulsion, if I'd ever picked it up in the first place, but mehercule it's better than Black Robe by...oh what's his face. Brian Miller? idk. Some of the characters in Baldwin occasionally display ability to be kind. Black Robe, lolno.

I also reread parts of Dwelling on the Threshold by Sarah Kate Istra Winter. I gave up when I realized how much I was skimming.

[nanila]

That sounds like it was all a bit of a slog. I hope you have some fun reading in your future!

[alexseanchai]

Hope so!

[nou]

Since last report, I have read:

• Hydrogen Sleets by Michael Warren Lucas
• Sticky Supersaturation, also by Michael Warren Lucas (a re-read of this short story after the above read of his new novel)
• Various stories in the August 2016 edition of Clarkesworld magazine
• Several stories in A Treasury of Sayers Stories by Dorothy L Sayers

[nanila]

Sounds like an SF-focused selection! Any particular reason?

[nou]

Not really! bob has a subscription to Clarkesworld, so it turns up on my Kindle every month.

[azurelunatic]

Lots of fanfiction, including some old favorites.

[nanila]

Yay fanfic. Yay comfort reading. \o/

[fred_mouse]

I read some study notes! Not enough, because they bore me (this is one of those 'optional' units that is the best option for the semester, and because understanding the topic would be useful, but oh, I don't need the level of math I just wanna know how the practicalities work. And I can't tell which bits of the math are necessary until afterwards, and so far the bits that make sense don't appear to have been necessary)

[nanila]

Well done for getting through the necessary reading!

[bonnefois]

Two more library books: The Literary Insomniac (anthology) and Far From You by Tess Sharpe.

I have five left.

[nanila]

Huzzah for progress! Good luck with the remaining five.