Weekend reading roundup (06 Feb 2017)

[nanila]

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

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[nanila]

I finished The Hanging Tree. It was a rather messy ending, and the long-term story arc has advanced sufficiently (although only just) to keep my interest in reading the next installment in the Rivers saga. I know Peter is supposed to be the main character but as far as I'm concerned it's Lady Ty.

Almost finished with the collection of essays in The Good Immigrant. I can only read 3-4 at a time because of the complicated feelings. Riz Ahmed and Salena Godden's were the most recent ones that really hit home.

Also read a few articles in the new Economist magazine 1843. Standouts were the one about parenting and the one about Amal Clooney and Nadia Murad's case against IS for the Yazidi genocide, which was fairly harrowing.

[alexseanchai]

Feh. Meant to read things that weren't Mediterranean-diet recipes. Did not in fact read anything that wasn't a Mediterranean-diet recipe.

[nanila]

Ah well, at least you have tasty recipes to make now?

[monkiainen]

I'm almost finished with Stormbird by Conn Iggulden.

[nanila]

That is a lot of pages. I hope it's been enjoyable!

[monkiainen]

It was a very excellent book, and I can't wait to read the next parts of the series.

[bonnefois]

Since last check in, I finished:

Naughty or Nice by Stephanie Bond
Leap Year: Chronicles Of A Mid-life Move by Katharaine Lanpher
Suddenly Frugal by Leah Ingram

[nanila]

Well done. That's an eclectic selection!

[bonnefois]

Recently I've just been polishing off books which were partially finished. I bought some books back when I was looking for a lamp, so I have to make room for what I got, lol.

[heliopausa]

Planned to have a just-for-fun read - the target was A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. I started it, then decided I obviously needed to read the book preceding it in the series - so I read that one, Komarr, instead. It was a bit of a let-down - I had very much enjoyed several early ones in the series, but in this the cultural aspects seemed a bit slapdash, and the characterisation really set up - the reader so plainly instructed to despise this character, admire this other one... yeah, yeah, I get it, Bujold.

[nanila]

I'm sorry the just-for-fun read was less fun than expected.

I must admit, I got about halfway through the Vorkosigan saga chronologically, and when I reached Brothers in Arms I very suddenly lost interest. I've never picked it up again, although I have reread some of the earlier ones.

[heliopausa]

I've read several, and particularly enjoyed the first two. In these two (I'm now half-way through A Civil Campaign) she seems to be just seeing how she can use the established readership to experiment with, in order:
- mystery-thriller genre
- comedy-romance genre
They are both pretty slipshod.

[fred_mouse]

Still reading 'Red Queen' by Christina Henry. Have reached a big reveal, am not at all surprised. Still waiting to work out *why* it fits like that though.

[nanila]

Well done for making progress, even if it isn't so suspenseful.

[fred_mouse]

The book is still beautifully written, but it had reached the point where there was only one character unaccounted for, so they had to be the Big Bad. And the explanation for how they got there was somewhat hand waved. But meh, I loved it anyway -- the ending was beautifully ambiguous.