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Finished reading
And then there were (n-one) by Sarah Pinsker. A Sarah Pinker gets an invite to SarahCon, where all the attendees are different iterations of Sarah Pinsker… Hell, yeah. This was great. Both in the sense of I’d love to sit down and talk to different iterations of me, and as a nicely-woven story of alternate realities and loss and differences. It’s kinda blatantly meta in places, in ways that I was willing to skate over. The ending was very much a "cool motive. STILL MURDER," in ways that the text doesn't quite address, but this has already shot up on my ballot, and I'm expecting it to remain high, even with four others to read.
Currently reading:
La Belle Sauvage This is wavering slightly for me. Still good! I want to get a better feeling of Alice – I approve of how cranky and baby-skilled she is, but I want to understand where she’s actually coming from. *makes notes for my own writing* But it’s hitting that point of “this is the first in a trilogy, and I’m not sure that we’ve got a ‘Plotline A to wrap up satisfyingly, Plotline B to go on with’” so it’s just going to…stop, and that’s not exactly encouraging me to keep going. I’ve got 100ishh pages to go, and they’re easy enough pages, so we’ll see.
Summer in Orcus oh god, this is destroying me in the best possible way. Ursula Vernon is just getting better and better. This is a skilled (original?) fairy tale, laced with Vernon’s wry humour, but also moments of breathtaking, gutpunch feelings. It feels emotionally real at so many beats that just make me choke up and flail quietly in public. It’s slower going than Belle Sauvage, it feels like it’s asking more of me/the reader somehow, but it also rewards that work in absolute spades.
Up next:
*Refreshes inbox hopefully* I'm hanging out for the voters pack. In the meantime I'll go read the excerpts of the rest of the YA books, and order Provenance from the library, perhaps; it’s both there in the library system and someone in a File770 thread pointed out that Orbit has only done excerpts in the voters’ pack in the past, which… fail, Orbit, fail. Thankfully Tor I think does full, and I’m pretty sure Yoon Ha Lee’s last book published by Solaris was in full *crosses everything*
And then there were (n-one) by Sarah Pinsker. A Sarah Pinker gets an invite to SarahCon, where all the attendees are different iterations of Sarah Pinsker… Hell, yeah. This was great. Both in the sense of I’d love to sit down and talk to different iterations of me, and as a nicely-woven story of alternate realities and loss and differences. It’s kinda blatantly meta in places, in ways that I was willing to skate over. The ending was very much a "cool motive. STILL MURDER," in ways that the text doesn't quite address, but this has already shot up on my ballot, and I'm expecting it to remain high, even with four others to read.
Currently reading:
La Belle Sauvage This is wavering slightly for me. Still good! I want to get a better feeling of Alice – I approve of how cranky and baby-skilled she is, but I want to understand where she’s actually coming from. *makes notes for my own writing* But it’s hitting that point of “this is the first in a trilogy, and I’m not sure that we’ve got a ‘Plotline A to wrap up satisfyingly, Plotline B to go on with’” so it’s just going to…stop, and that’s not exactly encouraging me to keep going. I’ve got 100ishh pages to go, and they’re easy enough pages, so we’ll see.
Summer in Orcus oh god, this is destroying me in the best possible way. Ursula Vernon is just getting better and better. This is a skilled (original?) fairy tale, laced with Vernon’s wry humour, but also moments of breathtaking, gutpunch feelings. It feels emotionally real at so many beats that just make me choke up and flail quietly in public. It’s slower going than Belle Sauvage, it feels like it’s asking more of me/the reader somehow, but it also rewards that work in absolute spades.
Up next:
*Refreshes inbox hopefully* I'm hanging out for the voters pack. In the meantime I'll go read the excerpts of the rest of the YA books, and order Provenance from the library, perhaps; it’s both there in the library system and someone in a File770 thread pointed out that Orbit has only done excerpts in the voters’ pack in the past, which… fail, Orbit, fail. Thankfully Tor I think does full, and I’m pretty sure Yoon Ha Lee’s last book published by Solaris was in full *crosses everything*