What Am I Reading Thursday
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scripsiI was busy writing fic yesterday, so my book post is a day late.
What I am reading: Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
What I have finished reading: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles hits thirty, thirty hits back. This is one of my favourite Miles-books. He manages, entirely on his own, to be fired from his job as a secret agent and tries to go off and sulk get depressed, but that is quite impossible to do when you are cousin with Ivan. For the first time in ten years, Miles can’t go off to his alternate persona of Admiral Naismith, he has to find out who Miles Vorkosigan really is. And then someone tries to kill Simon Illyan, Miles’ former boss and Emperor Gregors sets Miles to find out who.
This is not a coming-of-age book but a finding-yourself and it does a good job. This more or less end the space-opera books and sets Miles on his second career as Imperial Audiror, basically Gregor’s very own detective. The descriptions of Miles’ family and friends are as usual interesting and the mystery of Illyan’s would-be assasin is really thrilling. We also get to see Duv Galeni again and meet Zap the Cat and Gregor falls in love .
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. This is a short story-collection and it is a mixed bag with a few poems thrown in. I will need to let this one sink in a bit and re-read quite soon, I think. Several horror stories, Clack, Clack, Rattlebag is a story that will haunt me for a while. Doctor Who-fans will be absolutely delighted with Nothing O’Clock. It’s no surprise that Gaiman can write Doctor Who, he has, after all, some great episode scripts under his belt. This is set shortly after Amy starts travelling with the Doctor, but before Rory joins them. They return to Earth only to find that all the humans are gone and the Kin has taken over. The Kin… *shudder* I’m actually quite glad that they have never filmed an episode with this monster.
Amy looked irritated. She wasn’t irritated, but she sometimes liked to give him that impression she was, just to show him who was boss.
“You’re enjoying this,” said Amy. “My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory’s gone. And you’re enjoying this.”
“No, I’m not,” said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.
“I’m very clever,” said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible.
There is also a story featuring Shadow, which made me a happy bunny. American Gods are one of my all time favourite books and it’s nice to meet Shadow again. I very much hope that tehre will be a sequel to American Gods one day.
Pickman’s Model by H. P. Lovecraft. This is one of his better novels. Two friend’s meet and one of them explain his phobia for travelling Boston’s subway and generally being underground, with describing what has transpired between him, the artist Pickman, and Pickman’s paintings. And models… I have relatives in Boston and have visited several times, which only adds to the horror of this story. Being an old art student doesn’t help either.
What I will be reading next: Still having Soulless by Gail Carriger in the queue.
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Shunned House, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft.
What I am reading: Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
What I have finished reading: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles hits thirty, thirty hits back. This is one of my favourite Miles-books. He manages, entirely on his own, to be fired from his job as a secret agent and tries to go off and sulk get depressed, but that is quite impossible to do when you are cousin with Ivan. For the first time in ten years, Miles can’t go off to his alternate persona of Admiral Naismith, he has to find out who Miles Vorkosigan really is. And then someone tries to kill Simon Illyan, Miles’ former boss and Emperor Gregors sets Miles to find out who.
This is not a coming-of-age book but a finding-yourself and it does a good job. This more or less end the space-opera books and sets Miles on his second career as Imperial Audiror, basically Gregor’s very own detective. The descriptions of Miles’ family and friends are as usual interesting and the mystery of Illyan’s would-be assasin is really thrilling. We also get to see Duv Galeni again and meet Zap the Cat and Gregor falls in love .
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. This is a short story-collection and it is a mixed bag with a few poems thrown in. I will need to let this one sink in a bit and re-read quite soon, I think. Several horror stories, Clack, Clack, Rattlebag is a story that will haunt me for a while. Doctor Who-fans will be absolutely delighted with Nothing O’Clock. It’s no surprise that Gaiman can write Doctor Who, he has, after all, some great episode scripts under his belt. This is set shortly after Amy starts travelling with the Doctor, but before Rory joins them. They return to Earth only to find that all the humans are gone and the Kin has taken over. The Kin… *shudder* I’m actually quite glad that they have never filmed an episode with this monster.
Amy looked irritated. She wasn’t irritated, but she sometimes liked to give him that impression she was, just to show him who was boss.
“You’re enjoying this,” said Amy. “My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory’s gone. And you’re enjoying this.”
“No, I’m not,” said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.
“I’m very clever,” said the Doctor. It was a good line, and he was determined to use it as much as possible.
There is also a story featuring Shadow, which made me a happy bunny. American Gods are one of my all time favourite books and it’s nice to meet Shadow again. I very much hope that tehre will be a sequel to American Gods one day.
Pickman’s Model by H. P. Lovecraft. This is one of his better novels. Two friend’s meet and one of them explain his phobia for travelling Boston’s subway and generally being underground, with describing what has transpired between him, the artist Pickman, and Pickman’s paintings. And models… I have relatives in Boston and have visited several times, which only adds to the horror of this story. Being an old art student doesn’t help either.
What I will be reading next: Still having Soulless by Gail Carriger in the queue.
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Shunned House, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Date: 2015-03-12 09:57 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2015-03-13 02:00 am (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2015-03-20 06:06 am (UTC)Lovecraft is one of my favourite horror writers. He is not unproblematic, his xenophobia can be more than unsavoury in some stories, but when he is good, well, then he writes my nightmares and they are scary!
If you read several stories in one go you get a Little sauerated with eldritch horros and gibbous moons, though. Not to mention the Unspeakable! :D
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