What I've Been Reading Wednesday

[thisbluespirit]

On a Wednesday and only 3 weeks after the last! \o/

What I've Been Reading

I found Amy Snow by Tracy Rees on the Tesco's bookstall, which looked intriguing and easy to read, and the cover was pretty, so I snaffled it. It was easy to read and quite sweet and fun. Victorian foundling Amy Snow's foster sister and sole friend in the world dies, but leaves her a treasure hunt to solve.

My Mum lent me The Librarian by Salley Vickers, which was good, although it could have been more about the actual librarianing, but probably I am the only person who would complain about that. (I see in my reading diary that I gave it two stars which is quite high, as three is the most I run to; only now I am baffled because obviously I liked it a lot more when I had just finished it than I think I did now. I cannot explain myself sometimes.)

I also read Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors by Simon Wills, which was helpful. Not that I can actually do any further tracing of anything of that sort until I can visit an archive again one day, but it's good to know where to go, and the bibliography threw up a couple more possible merchant navy titles to look into.


What I'm Reading Now

Currently I'm just at the end of The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan, which has been fairly engaging and readable so far (although - and not that I was bored or anything, because I wasn't - technically we've had nearly 400 pages and very little has actually happened when I stop and think about it). Anyway, I've had this trilogy and some of the next on my TBR pile of hope for ages, so it was very satisfactory just to be able to take it down and read it fairly easily. Take that, brain!

For family history purposes, I am going through Wartime Britain 1939-1945 by Juliet Gardiner, which is very interesting, readable, and useful social history. If you write anything in that period, it seems like a good book to have to fall back on for background detail and info, so far at least.


What I'm Reading Next

Well, The Novice by Trudi Canavan, the next book, but probably first An Echo of Murder by Anne Perry, which I got from the library.

Comments

[auroracloud]

Yay books and reading! It's always fun to see what other people are/have been reading. Maybe I should do this again, too.

[persiflage_1]

I am, apparently, incapable of reading anything new while on my current fanfic writing spree, so have been re-reading Cadfael and Mary Stewart. (Shiny new OTPs are shiny AND demanding!)

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, but shiny new OTPs are the best! <3

Besides, nothing wrong with Cadfael and Mary Stewart, either.

[thisbluespirit]

Why not? It is rather fun to all compare notes. :-D

[singe]

I'm still catching up on all the books I missed in childhood. (I was a Bobsey Twins/Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew nut.) Right now I'm about to break into the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary. She just had her 103rd birthday!

I'm also reading 'The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise' by Julia Stuart. It's cute and funny but I'm waiting for someone (anyone) to be happy. Sorry, no go. The two main characters are, in fact, crumbling under grief over the death of their son and the others are just slogging along. I want fun, springtime reading, damn it, but I'm invested so I might as well see how it ends.

[liadt]

I read some Trudi Canavan ages ago and found it undemanding fantasy, although it's probably more demanding to readers who aren't familiar with the fantasy genre;p

[persiflage_1]

I love my shiny new OTPs so damn much!!!

Indeed there's not!

[sovay]

I also read Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors by Simon Wills, which was helpful.

That's really cool!

[auroracloud]

It's mostly a matter of getting around to it and remembering! But I'm trying to do so - I've been meaning to do some reading-related post, anyway. :-)

[gillo]

She creates interesting worlds, but her writing is a bit pedestrian. Currently working my way through the third in the Millennium's Rule trilogy - horrified to discover there's a fourth forthcoming. I can get a bit obsessively completist, but I think I'll have had enough for a while with this one.

Besides, there's a new Jodi Taylor due next week!

[thisbluespirit]

damn it, but I'm invested so I might as well see how it ends.

LOL, trapped!

[thisbluespirit]

It is probably as well for me that she is pedestrian, as beautiful and dense prose leaves my brain on the floor. It works for now, and it's nice to be able to read a fantasy thing, which has been extra difficult since I've been ill because of all the world-building.

It is awkward though when you can't let go of series(es)! I find it difficult as well.

[thisbluespirit]

Undemanding works for me right now!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, it is always nice to theoretically know where to go.

[scripsi]

I enjoyed The Magician's Guild<7i> and the sequels, but I also skipped a lot- long stretches were rather boring. But I liked the heroine, and on the whole, it was good character growth all around.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, yes, I found she really could have been cut down a bit! But I'm enjoying her characters and it's easy enough for me to cope with, so that's cool. I don't know how much I'd want to read the other series of hers, but I'm glad I gave these ones a go.