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Old 03-24-2016, 04:41 PM   #23726
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I've been reading that one interspaced with Dante's Divine Comedy. I don't normally do a lot of re-reading, but this is my third time through the Comedy, although they were all by different translators. The first was by The Rev. H.F. Cary, M.A. (The Harvard Classics edition), the second was the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, and the one I'm reading now was translated by Anthony S. Kline. This is by far my favorite, as it is a prose translation that is much easier to understand. I've had the book on my TBR list since at least 2010, but after Longfellow and Cary I felt like taking a break from the tale for a few years.
I have quite fond memories of John Ciardi's translation. He retains the poetic form, but takes appropriate liberties to preserve certain linguistic notes. The result was quite readable, faithful to the spirit over the strict text when a decision between the two was required.

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Currently reading Three Days to Dead, by Kelly Meding.
Urban Fantasy, involves various malicious or ambivalent magical races (elves, goblins, were-fill-in-blanks, and of course the mostly-vampires). The main character (part of a group of "troubled youth" forcibly recruited into covert ops/magic police/foot soldiers of humanity) died and was resurrected in the middle of a confusing plot that will undoubtedly spell the end of humanity, etc...
As the title indicates, she has three days until she dies again, and first she has to figure out why she's back anyway. It doesn't help that her own people think she killed her own squad and are hunting her...
I rather enjoyed that series, although my brain insists on mixing Kelly Meding up with Kelly Gay.

I'm about a third of the way through Seanan McGuire's Chaos Choreography at present, fifth in her "InCryptid" series and the third starring Verity Price. There's a peculiar cadence in the epigraph that begins Chapter 4; it's very similar to a refrain from the children's book that she "quotes from" in her "Parasitology" series (as Mira Grant).
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