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psocopteraPaper Girls 3. Iiiii dunno, I was super into this series when I started it and now I just... don't care?? Various Things keep Happening but is it going anywhere, do they add up to anything? And, I don't know, the character voices and reactions just didn't seem quite... convincing somehow. Possibly this series needs actual women/people who were once 12yo girls involved with it somewhere?
Packet excerpt from Sleeping With Monsters, Liz Bourke. So... I don't really "get" related works? Like, what am I supposed to be getting from this? Maybe that's ironic because I do a certain amount of book reviewing myself, hi, but I when I write stuff up here, it's a) for myself, so that I can remember later what I thought, b) for friends who know me and might sometimes find me a useful source of tips about books (or an amusing source of snark about books), c) for anyone who wants to read my blather who's bothered to figure out how my tastes calibrate against theirs and can thus extract something useful from my opinions. Bourke and I, from this excerpt, have some overlap but not solid overlap, she's not saying anything that gives me any particular new or interesting insight into the things I have read... basically I don't get this.
Likewise I'm about a third of the way into Luminescent Threads and I don't get it either. What everyone is writing is obviously deeply meaningful to them but why am I reading it? I read my notes about last years Relateds and I apparently got a lot out of the Gaiman book and something out of the LeGuin, so this category isn't a total lost cause for me. Four more to try I guess.
Meanwhile, though, Tropic of Serpents and Voyage of the Basilisk! (Numbers 2 and 3 of Marie Brennan's nominated series.) Yes I know I said I wasn't going to read more Series books until I made more progress on Graphics and Relateds but these were so conveniently in the packet in phone-friendly format and they just seem to be getting better as they go and now I reaaaally want to read 4 and 5. (Spoilers) I'm kind of in love with Suhail and I have a *crazy hypothesis* about what's going on with the dragon taxonomy?? Some kind of alien transformation factor that interacted with this world's bio relatively recently, evolutionarily speaking, such that there are insect-dragons and bird-dragons and fish-dragons and snake-dragons and turtle-dragons - and the Draconic empire people may have included human-dragons? Like, okay, yes, I sound like Mulder here, "it's gotta be aliens!" and Lady Trent is probably going to come up with some much more sensible explanation, but I feel like there are a lot of little clues about vertebra and limb numbers (and that thing about the embryo in the egg having weird hips) that are hinting heavily in the direction of something really unnatural having happened here. Anyways, I also may have reread/reskimmed the first three Raksura books, to remind myself who everyone was (I have a harder time getting the noun-names to stick somehow), so I'm clearly not not working on serieses.
Packet excerpt from Sleeping With Monsters, Liz Bourke. So... I don't really "get" related works? Like, what am I supposed to be getting from this? Maybe that's ironic because I do a certain amount of book reviewing myself, hi, but I when I write stuff up here, it's a) for myself, so that I can remember later what I thought, b) for friends who know me and might sometimes find me a useful source of tips about books (or an amusing source of snark about books), c) for anyone who wants to read my blather who's bothered to figure out how my tastes calibrate against theirs and can thus extract something useful from my opinions. Bourke and I, from this excerpt, have some overlap but not solid overlap, she's not saying anything that gives me any particular new or interesting insight into the things I have read... basically I don't get this.
Likewise I'm about a third of the way into Luminescent Threads and I don't get it either. What everyone is writing is obviously deeply meaningful to them but why am I reading it? I read my notes about last years Relateds and I apparently got a lot out of the Gaiman book and something out of the LeGuin, so this category isn't a total lost cause for me. Four more to try I guess.
Meanwhile, though, Tropic of Serpents and Voyage of the Basilisk! (Numbers 2 and 3 of Marie Brennan's nominated series.) Yes I know I said I wasn't going to read more Series books until I made more progress on Graphics and Relateds but these were so conveniently in the packet in phone-friendly format and they just seem to be getting better as they go and now I reaaaally want to read 4 and 5. (Spoilers) I'm kind of in love with Suhail and I have a *crazy hypothesis* about what's going on with the dragon taxonomy?? Some kind of alien transformation factor that interacted with this world's bio relatively recently, evolutionarily speaking, such that there are insect-dragons and bird-dragons and fish-dragons and snake-dragons and turtle-dragons - and the Draconic empire people may have included human-dragons? Like, okay, yes, I sound like Mulder here, "it's gotta be aliens!" and Lady Trent is probably going to come up with some much more sensible explanation, but I feel like there are a lot of little clues about vertebra and limb numbers (and that thing about the embryo in the egg having weird hips) that are hinting heavily in the direction of something really unnatural having happened here. Anyways, I also may have reread/reskimmed the first three Raksura books, to remind myself who everyone was (I have a harder time getting the noun-names to stick somehow), so I'm clearly not not working on serieses.
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Date: 2018-06-28 04:15 am (UTC)