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holidays + reading meme
I had a lovely Christmas dinner at my mom's. She made a marvelous beef brisket. Then I had brunch at Say Cheese with Carolyn on Boxing Day. There are a couple more meals with friends coming up in the next few days.
I've been trying to work on a writing project, but my brain says No, we're on vacation! Hopefully I will manage to get some work done in spite of Holiday Brain.
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The weekly what I'm reading meme:
• What are you currently reading?
Still reading Brit Mandelo's We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-telling (it's my book bag book).
I'm back into Michael Gorra's Portrait of a Novel (about Henry James and Portrait of a Lady). I'd put it aside awhile, but it's fantastic.
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. It's gripping and beautifully written, but wow is it slowly paced. I won't know until I'm farther along (I'm about a hundred pages in) whether or not I think the glacial pacing is justified.
Rereading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I swear I haven't read Conan Doyle since I was a Holmes-obsessed pre-teen, but I found I remembered great swaths of "A Scandal in Bohemia."
• What did you recently finish reading?
Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Various folks recommended this, and it really is as delightful as everyone said. Roman history + vampires + assorted other monsters. Good stuff.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Still planning to read Violence Girl by Alice Bag, among other things.
I've been trying to work on a writing project, but my brain says No, we're on vacation! Hopefully I will manage to get some work done in spite of Holiday Brain.
***
The weekly what I'm reading meme:
• What are you currently reading?
Still reading Brit Mandelo's We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-telling (it's my book bag book).
I'm back into Michael Gorra's Portrait of a Novel (about Henry James and Portrait of a Lady). I'd put it aside awhile, but it's fantastic.
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. It's gripping and beautifully written, but wow is it slowly paced. I won't know until I'm farther along (I'm about a hundred pages in) whether or not I think the glacial pacing is justified.
Rereading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I swear I haven't read Conan Doyle since I was a Holmes-obsessed pre-teen, but I found I remembered great swaths of "A Scandal in Bohemia."
• What did you recently finish reading?
Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Various folks recommended this, and it really is as delightful as everyone said. Roman history + vampires + assorted other monsters. Good stuff.
• What do you think you’ll read next?
Still planning to read Violence Girl by Alice Bag, among other things.