Weekend Reading Roundup (12 September 2017)

[nanila]

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

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[nanila]

Noooooope, reading fail this weekend (apart from children's books, to the children).

[musyc]

I've started a non-fiction book about mortuary science - The Chick and the Dead, by Carla Valentine. So far, enjoying it. She's got a nice conversational tone and explains technical terms and jargon easily. Wish she wasn't quite so descriptive of her childhood explorations of roadkill and other dead animals, though - I find descriptions of human remains much easier to handle.

[lapinlunaire]

This weekend was kind of a reading fail for me too :(

[fred_mouse]

A bit more of Anais Nin's "In favour of the sensitive man", and because I now have given myself permission to start new books on Sundays, regardless of the number I already have open, I started 'ICO' by Miyuke Miyabe, which turns out to be a novelisation of a playstation game, but beautiful to read even though I have no idea of the game.

[nou]

Since last report, I have read loads of things, mainly because (a) I went on holiday and (b) it's been ages since my last report. Thus:

• The Windfall by Diksha Basu. Some light holiday reading, not bad at all, might re-read on a future holiday. I liked the multiple interconnected storylines.
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. A generational novel covering so many generations I found myself losing track of who was who towards the end. A good read, though a difficult one in places.
• Fearsome Journeys edited by Jonathan Strahan. A good, varied collection of fantasy short stories.
• Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica edited by Violet Blue. Not bad; might read again.
• Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt by John Grindrod. Really really good.
• Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross. I got this for the novella included in it, “Palimpsest”. I did enjoy that one, but the others were all a bit meh, and in places a bit creepy (as in icky, not as in scary).
• Evening Is The Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan. Got 10% of the way through, wasn’t digging it, stopped.
• The Case Of The Late Pig by Margery Allingham. Aside from the casual fatphobia, a good short read!
• The September 2016 issue of Clarkesworld. Some good stories, some not my thing.
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman. A re-read after many years. I enjoyed it the first time I read it, but it feels a bit too close to the "evil stepmother" trope for me now.
• Bramton Wick by Elizabeth Fair. Decent enough light reading, will read more.
• Taken By The Hand by O Douglas (Anna Masterton Buchan). As previously reported, there are issues of occasional racism, classism, and sexism in this author’s books, but I still enjoyed reading this one. I think the main thing I enjoy about them is that they take the mother-daughter relationship seriously.