I have been very busy with school lately, so most of the books I'm going to mention are from earlier on in the year. It's actually really unfortunate that I got so busy this time around, because there's so much activity in the QT fandom, and I feel like I'm missing out, and then I have to force myself to miss out, because it's too sad to see all the activity and not be involved.
Anyway, at the turn of the new year, I did a reread of Queen of Attolia. It's been some years since my last reread, and I forgot much of what happened. It's awesome how I come to have almost the same reaction with regards to Attolia though -- how I go from hating her to rooting for her. I thought knowing what happened, I would have gotten a different reaction.
I also read both books in RJ Anderson's Uncommon Magic duology, which are really really good! Just last week, the first book was in the Top Picks section in Indigo and I ended up buying it, even though I was supposed to look at the new editions of QT.... (Speaking of Indigo, they used to shelve QT in the middle grade section, but I now find them in teens. It reminded me of when the Eagle of the Ninth movie came out, and the books with the old covers were in the children's section, and the one with Tatum's face on it was in the teens. Hehe, that's marketing for you.)
I also read a book called "The Reader" by Traci Chee. I have very mixed feelings about it. I think I wanted to like it so much it got frustrating when it wasn't catering to my tastes, hahaha.
I read a non-fiction book called "The Geek Heresy" by Kentaro Toyama, and as a computer science student, I think this is the only thing I've read recently that really gets past the hype of recent technological advancements and observe how they're actually affecting society. It's not pessimistic, but I think when you're surrounded by tech fanatics all the time, getting a non upper-middle-class-North-American perspective on tech is quite sobering. I highly recommend it!
I also finally got around to reading the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, called "Castle in the Air." Gotta admit, I wasn't as impressed, though I did like Abdullah.
I'm now making my way through KoA. It's my most reread book out of the 4, but the last time I read it was 2014, so it's good to refresh my memories of it.
I'm also reading "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" and Brandon Sanderson's novella, "The Emperor's Soul."
And yeah... that's about it. Like a few of the others above, I'm also working on my own writing, which I really need to get to now that I impulsively signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo.
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Date: 4/5/17 02:12 am (UTC)Anyway, at the turn of the new year, I did a reread of Queen of Attolia. It's been some years since my last reread, and I forgot much of what happened. It's awesome how I come to have almost the same reaction with regards to Attolia though -- how I go from hating her to rooting for her. I thought knowing what happened, I would have gotten a different reaction.
I also read both books in RJ Anderson's Uncommon Magic duology, which are really really good! Just last week, the first book was in the Top Picks section in Indigo and I ended up buying it, even though I was supposed to look at the new editions of QT.... (Speaking of Indigo, they used to shelve QT in the middle grade section, but I now find them in teens. It reminded me of when the Eagle of the Ninth movie came out, and the books with the old covers were in the children's section, and the one with Tatum's face on it was in the teens. Hehe, that's marketing for you.)
I also read a book called "The Reader" by Traci Chee. I have very mixed feelings about it. I think I wanted to like it so much it got frustrating when it wasn't catering to my tastes, hahaha.
I read a non-fiction book called "The Geek Heresy" by Kentaro Toyama, and as a computer science student, I think this is the only thing I've read recently that really gets past the hype of recent technological advancements and observe how they're actually affecting society. It's not pessimistic, but I think when you're surrounded by tech fanatics all the time, getting a non upper-middle-class-North-American perspective on tech is quite sobering. I highly recommend it!
I also finally got around to reading the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, called "Castle in the Air." Gotta admit, I wasn't as impressed, though I did like Abdullah.
I'm now making my way through KoA. It's my most reread book out of the 4, but the last time I read it was 2014, so it's good to refresh my memories of it.
I'm also reading "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" and Brandon Sanderson's novella, "The Emperor's Soul."
And yeah... that's about it. Like a few of the others above, I'm also working on my own writing, which I really need to get to now that I impulsively signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo.