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completely unrelated books
Feb. 4th, 2019 07:56 pmThis might be the most disparate pair of books I've ever put in one post? Except that they were both available as ebooks from the library, the most important similarity of all :)
The Freeze-Frame Revolution is a 2018 novella by Peter Watts. Pretty gripping - didn't want to put it down for a good chunk of it - but didn't quite stick the landing for me. Some online reading reveals that there are other stories in the same universe (including at least one I'd read but didn't recall) and maybe a Big Reveal yet to come and I think that was a little more complexity/investment than I wanted vs the standalone novella I thought I was getting. Spoilers: ( Read more... ) Anyways, neat premise, some very cool setting/tech stuff. I've come to dislike the "hard/soft" terminology for SF but this is the sort with a gravitic diagram of the spaceship in the front.
Empress of the World is a YA novel by Sara Ryan that I'm pretty sure I put on my to-read list because Dylan Meconis did a comic with Sara Ryan about one of the characters back in 2007 and then twelve years later I finally got around to doing something about that. It felt *very* young, so, hey, nice authentic teen voice, I guess, but wow I was a decade too old for this book in 2007 and it's only gone on from there. There is still YA I think I want to read and YA that I'm glad to have read, but I've been putting some work recently into deprioritizing YA on my big list and I think that increases my chances of getting stuff I'll actually enjoy when I'm trawling the library for ebooks.
The Freeze-Frame Revolution is a 2018 novella by Peter Watts. Pretty gripping - didn't want to put it down for a good chunk of it - but didn't quite stick the landing for me. Some online reading reveals that there are other stories in the same universe (including at least one I'd read but didn't recall) and maybe a Big Reveal yet to come and I think that was a little more complexity/investment than I wanted vs the standalone novella I thought I was getting. Spoilers: ( Read more... ) Anyways, neat premise, some very cool setting/tech stuff. I've come to dislike the "hard/soft" terminology for SF but this is the sort with a gravitic diagram of the spaceship in the front.
Empress of the World is a YA novel by Sara Ryan that I'm pretty sure I put on my to-read list because Dylan Meconis did a comic with Sara Ryan about one of the characters back in 2007 and then twelve years later I finally got around to doing something about that. It felt *very* young, so, hey, nice authentic teen voice, I guess, but wow I was a decade too old for this book in 2007 and it's only gone on from there. There is still YA I think I want to read and YA that I'm glad to have read, but I've been putting some work recently into deprioritizing YA on my big list and I think that increases my chances of getting stuff I'll actually enjoy when I'm trawling the library for ebooks.
