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Elizabeth Bear
All the Windwracked Stars
Occasionally, Norse myth inspires some truly - odd works. I mean, it's entertaining - the last valkyrie after Ragnarok living in a dying world (that I think is supposed to be Earth, with Asgard (sorry, Valdyrgard) as a parallel dimension. And there's Fenris - well, sort of. And cyborgs and reincarnated einherjar and technomagic and animal-people and, well, stuff. Though why a two-headed, winged, horned, antlered horse gets to be called a valravn I just don't get...
Lois McMaster Bujold
Legacy, Passage & Horizon
I'm sorry to say this is the least appealing of Bujold's series. The world is fine - sort of a parallel fantasy Mississippi with eldritch abominations tossed in - and I like the main characters and the supporting characters just fine. It's not that it's bad, not even close, it's just - well, not as good as the other stuff. Or maybe it's just that it's less epic - I mean, Dag and Fawn are changing the world, but they're not fighting wars or channeling gods or accidentally hijacking mercenary space fleets in the process. Maybe that's all it is.
Jane Espenson
Buffy the vampire slayer season 8. - Retreat
Sometimes, I wish they hadn't made the comics. Then again, I wish they'd stopped when Buffy jumped off that tower and sometimes I wish they stopped even sooner, so... (and yet I keep reading them - go figure)
Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade
I think I lost track of who was the confidence-man somewhere halfway through. Ah well...
China Miéville
Embassytown
Don't get me wrong, but Miéville is beginning to bore me a little. It's not that he's in any way gotten worse, it's just, well, sometimes it feels like his novels are a bit - too alike. I mean, this one was a science fiction novel and the world it shows is interesting, but, well, it's mostly the same themes all over again. It's getting a bit - you know?
Total number of books and comics read this month: 29
Currently reading: Steven Erikson's The Crippled God
All the Windwracked Stars
Occasionally, Norse myth inspires some truly - odd works. I mean, it's entertaining - the last valkyrie after Ragnarok living in a dying world (that I think is supposed to be Earth, with Asgard (sorry, Valdyrgard) as a parallel dimension. And there's Fenris - well, sort of. And cyborgs and reincarnated einherjar and technomagic and animal-people and, well, stuff. Though why a two-headed, winged, horned, antlered horse gets to be called a valravn I just don't get...
Lois McMaster Bujold
Legacy, Passage & Horizon
I'm sorry to say this is the least appealing of Bujold's series. The world is fine - sort of a parallel fantasy Mississippi with eldritch abominations tossed in - and I like the main characters and the supporting characters just fine. It's not that it's bad, not even close, it's just - well, not as good as the other stuff. Or maybe it's just that it's less epic - I mean, Dag and Fawn are changing the world, but they're not fighting wars or channeling gods or accidentally hijacking mercenary space fleets in the process. Maybe that's all it is.
Jane Espenson
Buffy the vampire slayer season 8. - Retreat
Sometimes, I wish they hadn't made the comics. Then again, I wish they'd stopped when Buffy jumped off that tower and sometimes I wish they stopped even sooner, so... (and yet I keep reading them - go figure)
Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade
I think I lost track of who was the confidence-man somewhere halfway through. Ah well...
China Miéville
Embassytown
Don't get me wrong, but Miéville is beginning to bore me a little. It's not that he's in any way gotten worse, it's just, well, sometimes it feels like his novels are a bit - too alike. I mean, this one was a science fiction novel and the world it shows is interesting, but, well, it's mostly the same themes all over again. It's getting a bit - you know?
Total number of books and comics read this month: 29
Currently reading: Steven Erikson's The Crippled God
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