Weekend Reading Roundup (25 July 2017)

[nanila]

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

Comments

[bonnefois]

I finished Coffee Sonata by Gun Brooke.

[nanila]

Hooray for successful completion!

[legionseagle]

I read Fourteen by Leslie Johansen Nack. I was a bit afraid it was going to be too much of a misery memoir, but it genuinely wasn't; the sailing parts were at elast as important as the coming of age stuff, and both were in balance.

[nanila]

Oh, excellent. I'm glad it turned out to have appropriate proportions of the elements you liked.

[fred_mouse]

I finished the fourth Harriet Hamster book, and a reread of 'Eight Days of Luke', both of which have been half read for over a week. I need to write reviews on them both, but haven't made the effort yet.

[nanila]

Well done for finishing, and reducing Mount TBR!

[ironed_orchid]

I finally got around to reading Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, it was entertaining, but not particularly memorable. Also I think I have read too much Ivan/By fic to see it as anything but a weird au

[nanila]

Ha! I'm glad it didn't detract from your enjoyment of the fanworks.

[fred_mouse]

I agree that it's a really weird AU, and I think that even in terms of the Bujold canon. The spontaneity of the whole turning point of the plot was so not Ivan! And I hated what she did with Byerley as well.

[berryandthorn]

I read Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule. Got about a quarter left to go.