recent reading #10

[adelaidesean]

My love affair with Sarah Waters continues this month, between rewrites and flights hither and yon. Apart from that, I've been all over the place. Got a huge stack of YA, graphic, and crime novels lined up next, but I think my heart will belong to the Nineteenth Century for a while yet. Or else I'll read The Lord of the Rings for the first time in twenty-odd years. Or something else entirely...

All suggestions welcome!

• Tiny Acts of Rebellion: 97 Almost-Legal Ways to Stick It to the Man by Rich Fulcher From The Mighty Boosh (now legally his full name) (I’m not going to review this book, I’m not!!*)
• So Cold the River by Michael Koryta (thanks Renée!)
• Disquiet by Julia Leigh (so incisive and brilliant it triggered a nightmare AND an epiphany)
• The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach by Hendrik Willem van Loon (delightfully quaint)
• The Well at the End of the World by A J Mackinnon (hilarious and rather unnerving in that Sandy is a friend of mine and I lost count of the number of times he almost died by the end of the book)
• Encyclopaedia of Snow by Sarah Emily Miano (didn’t finish)
• The Adventures of the Princess and Mr Whiffle: The Thing Under the Bed by Patrick Rothfuss (the boys in my household just love things with teeth)
• Captain Long Ears by Diana Thung (touching)
• Affinity, Tipping the Velvet, and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (perfect, genius, inspiring, wonderful)
• The Poets of the Powers by Kamil V. Zvelebil (for research, and bloody fascinating it was, too)

* Oh, all right. It was brilliant.

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Wonderful Sean, could you do me a favour? A friend of mine has just joined LJ, she's from Adelaide and can be found here http://pearl-65.livejournal.com/
She's doing a writing course, needs to interview someone about blogging for her latest assignment. I've already given her my pitiful stuff, but you are a Real Writer, and can tell her more about how Real wRITERS USE MEDIA LIKE lj. Could you be a dear and pop over to her blog and give her some info? I promise to bring you very nice chocolate from the best chocolate shop in Sydney when we get to WorldCon.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Chocolate? You know me too well.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Please forgive my use of caps. I have a new keyboard and I KEEP HITTING THE CAPS KEY for some reason....

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm having a similar problem with my new keyboard. Every time I go for Back Space, I hit Home instead, with pointless results.

[karenhealey.livejournal.com]

Sean, it was awesome to meet you at Comic-Con. Hope I see you in Melbourne this September!

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Really wonderful to meet you too! Thanks for not letting me have that extra drink on the first night (although I did it anyway ).

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

PS. Yes! Barring the usual con craziness, where dear friends can pass each other in the same corridor in complete oblivion while strangers form an unbreakable bond in an hour, we will definitely see each other in Melbourne. :-)

[karenhealey.livejournal.com]

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[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Hell yes. China is the bomb!

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