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Wednesday Wild and Wasted Dreams
Aug. 31st, 2016 10:00 amArchived from Livejournal
What I've Finished Reading
The Dark Lantern by Henry Williamson.
( They fuck you up, your mum and dad )
Also in 99 Novels: Invisible Man. We're up to 1952! I started this on Friday evening, thinking I would just read a chapter or two and then get some work done, but hahahahahahaNOPE. Some books come into our lives to be half-read, and some to completely usurp our plans for the next twelve hours. Guess which kind this is? It's a gorgeous nightmare, twentieth-century America as painted by Hieronymus Bosch, and I couldn't put it down even when I wanted to.
What I'm Reading Now
I'm about halfway through The Fifth Elephant and regretting, for no really clear reason, that I've abandoned publication order; I might double back and read the previous book, Jingo, before I finish. Vimes has been sent on a diplomatic mission to Comedy Transylvania, Gaspode the talking dog tries to help Carrot with his relationship problems, and Sgt. Colon has been temporarily promoted, to the detriment of everyone and everything.
Foundation's Edge is surprisingly good! Well, it's Asimovian, and Asimov is pretty unfailing comfort food for me, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. For some reason, I can suspend my disbelief about a galaxy-wide empire lasting twelve thousand years – I mean, my sense of scale is not too robust at the best of times – but not about space archaeologists who think it's weird for a planet to have more than two languages. Come on!
What I Plan to Read Next
Probably taking a break from the 99 for a week, but with what? More Asimov? BALZAC? Books published within the past ten years? And then it's time to read The Groves of Academe and The Old Man and the Sea!
What I've Finished Reading
The Dark Lantern by Henry Williamson.
( They fuck you up, your mum and dad )
Also in 99 Novels: Invisible Man. We're up to 1952! I started this on Friday evening, thinking I would just read a chapter or two and then get some work done, but hahahahahahaNOPE. Some books come into our lives to be half-read, and some to completely usurp our plans for the next twelve hours. Guess which kind this is? It's a gorgeous nightmare, twentieth-century America as painted by Hieronymus Bosch, and I couldn't put it down even when I wanted to.
What I'm Reading Now
I'm about halfway through The Fifth Elephant and regretting, for no really clear reason, that I've abandoned publication order; I might double back and read the previous book, Jingo, before I finish. Vimes has been sent on a diplomatic mission to Comedy Transylvania, Gaspode the talking dog tries to help Carrot with his relationship problems, and Sgt. Colon has been temporarily promoted, to the detriment of everyone and everything.
Foundation's Edge is surprisingly good! Well, it's Asimovian, and Asimov is pretty unfailing comfort food for me, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. For some reason, I can suspend my disbelief about a galaxy-wide empire lasting twelve thousand years – I mean, my sense of scale is not too robust at the best of times – but not about space archaeologists who think it's weird for a planet to have more than two languages. Come on!
What I Plan to Read Next
Probably taking a break from the 99 for a week, but with what? More Asimov? BALZAC? Books published within the past ten years? And then it's time to read The Groves of Academe and The Old Man and the Sea!
