Weekend Reading Roundup (10 July 2017)

[nanila]

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

NB I'm presently on holiday so comment replies will be delayed (even more than usual), sorry

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[nou]

Since last report, I have read:

• Round About A Pound A Week by Maud Pember Reeves. Published just over a century ago and still relevant today.
• Between Two Thorns, Any Other Name, All Is Fair, A Little Knowledge, and All Good Things by Emma Newman. The first four of these were re-reads in preparation for the fifth, which is the conclusion of the Split Worlds series. I enjoyed all of these, though am not likely to re-read them in the future. The writing style didn’t really grab me in the way I wanted it to — it has that feel of being a really really detailed plot summary rather than an immersive experience (a criticism I have previously also levelled at the Harry Potter novels, so if you’re fine with those you should be fine with these).
• Trans Like Me by C N Lester. I didn’t find this as engrossing as I’d expected to — my attention kept wandering, I think partly because I felt the writing style was a little too impersonal to fit well with the first-person viewpoint. I was also surprised to discover a plethora of footnotes at the end of the book, since all the in-text citations are missing from my copy (Kindle version bought from Amazon). I think all cis people should read it, though!
• Confessions of a Barrister by Russell Winnock. This was OK, but the author isn’t as witty as he thinks he is, and the romance sub-plot was cringeworthy. Also, his portrayal of the situation of false rape accusations is annoyingly biased (and, according to evidence, wrong).

[nanila]

Ooh. Thank you for that first one. I looked it up and have reserved the one available copy in my library system.