Weekend reading roundup (23 Jan 2017)

[nanila]

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

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[nanila]

I had a fantastic reading weekend. I finished The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross and got about a third of the way into The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch (both were Xmas presents).

I dabbled a bit in Dark Money by Jane Meyer but there was too much scary stuff that paralleled current events. It was particularly creepy to note how many billionaires and/or billionaire's relatives from that book are appearing in the new US president's cabinet.

Finally, I read this beautiful Rogue One Chirrut/Baze fic: here.

[heliopausa]

I read most of Unpopular Opinions, by Dorothy Sayers - essays on various subjects, including some theological and some, at a stretch, political, and quite a lot of meta on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, all done in faux-academic style. And I dipped into CS Lewis's Preface to Paradise Lost - I plan to read it more seriously once I finish the Unpopular Opinions.

Both of these were courtesy of fadedpage.com which has a small, quirkily selected but much-appreciated internet library, free to all comers.

[nanila]

Unpopular Opinions looks like a good read - and it's great of fadedpage to provide it, given that print copies are expensive!

[bonnefois]

Since I last checked in, I finished Heartland, Just Business and Rescue Me all by Julie Cannon. I'm up to 8 read now.

[nanila]

Oh, excellent! Congratulations on your progress.