09-23-2018, 11:27 PM | #2326 |
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Well, I spent my last credits on Becky Chambers' second book and preordered the third, but I kept the $10/yr plan for now. Most likely I'll be back on the 2 credit plan in six months or so, but for now I'll subsist on my backlog, the library, and KU until I run out of interesting stuff there.
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09-25-2018, 10:13 PM | #2327 |
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I am listening to The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, narrated by Claire Danes. It seems the right time for it.
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09-26-2018, 12:33 AM | #2328 |
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Doesn't it just? I'm afraid I bailed on it. I find I need more escapist fiction these days.
Therefore, currently listening to Elizabeth Moon's The Oath of Gold, narrated by Jennifer Van Dyke. Highly enjoyable. |
09-26-2018, 10:46 AM | #2329 |
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I figure if I'm in a rage already, I might as well go with it. My plan is to follow up with a new title, Christine Dalcher's Vox , in which women are allowed to speak only 100 words a day.
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09-27-2018, 02:03 PM | #2330 | |
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I’m currently listening to Audible’s version of Frankenstein read by Dan Stevens. It’s even better than I expected.
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09-27-2018, 07:19 PM | #2331 |
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I was starting Frankenstein on Oct 1. Currently listening to True Detective by Max Allan Collins. When I'm doing the absolutely mindless task of removing seeds from a huge batch of morning glory vines, I am listening to Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. The recording is not very good, but taking the advice of someone who posted on Audible, I am using headphones and 1.25x speed and it is much improved. It's a very good story so far, but I was put off a long time due to the poor sound quality.
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09-28-2018, 03:21 AM | #2332 |
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Finished Earth Afire, and is now listening to Earth Awakens, the third in the series by Orson Scott Card. An okay series, but not fantastic. Card has a thing where he has to overdevelop his characters, and it just takes sooo much time to explain everything, filling his books with not needed filling. And if you've read any Ender's Game books prior to this one, you know what will happen anyway.
Also read Robert A. Heinleins Double Star in the mean time. 3/5, not his greatest work, but still as Heinlein as can be. Definitely one of my favorite scifi authors.. 8) |
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09-28-2018, 07:02 PM | #2335 | |
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I've started the third Flashman book, Flash for Freedom!, read by Frederick Davidson. The Flashman books are terrific fun. In fact, the credit on this is for David Case, but he's always Frederick Davidson to me. This is the 14th book read by him I've listened to this year! |
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09-29-2018, 12:24 AM | #2336 | |
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On Flashman, I'm sorry, not even David Case / Frederick Davidson is enough to rescue it for me. I tried, I really did, in no small part because you like them, and also because of David Case. I've ended up starting to read / listen to In Pieces, Sally Field's memoir. (And read by her.) Still too early to have an opinion, but I'm hopeful. However, for the pool I'll need something different, since I haven't found a decent app for listening to M4Bs on the Delphin yet, and this is a library book. |
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09-29-2018, 09:24 AM | #2337 |
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Of the Wimsey/Vane books, I'd put Strong Poison in second place; the other two have issues (for me). The cypher-breaking in Have His Carcase was fun. Busman's Honeymoon got a little icky for me. (And the murder method was ridiculous, which is fairly typical of Sayers at that.)
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09-30-2018, 10:25 PM | #2338 |
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I've finished Christina Dalcher's Vox; it was disappointing because it turned into more of thriller-ish, adventure-ish story than I expected from the premise (a U.S. in which women are limited to 100 words a day; they wear bracelet counters that give them electrical shocks if they surpass the quota). Plus it had scenes of animal experimentation, and I don't, don't, don't like that. The main takeaway was that women let it happen by not being more willing to go out marching and protesting. Simplistic victim bashing, but whatever.
Anyway, I am continuing to gin up my rage with another feminist dystopian novel (why am I on a dystopian kick when I avoid this genre?), When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan. This is a riff on The Scarlet Letter, and I am liking it so far. |
10-03-2018, 04:48 PM | #2339 |
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Just finished Arrow's Fall, the last of Lackey's Heralds of Valdimar series. They really did a good job with these. Hopefully, they will some more of her Valdimar books as well as some of her other books.
Next up is Monster Hunters International : Siege. This is just a fun series read by one of my favorite narrators. I've read the book in ebook format and it feels more like a bridge book, i.e. Correia is setting the stage for the next several Monster Hunters books, but still it was a very readable book. |
10-06-2018, 11:13 AM | #2340 |
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After When She Woke, which went downhill but was still decent, I stayed with the feminist theme and listened to Red Clocks by Leni Zumas. Red Clocks was everything I hate in so-called literary fiction: pretentious poppycock dressed up in fancy prose and icky imagery.
The four POV characters are referred to by labels--the biographer, the mender, the daughter, the wife--in their respective chapters (but by names in the other chapters), which is pointlessly annoying. They're all intertwined in a near-future world in which the U.S. has adopted a "personhood" amendment, conferring full legal rights on the unborn. Interesting concept to explore, but horribly executed. It's only my stubborn streak about finishing a book that got me through this one. I HATED it. I had planned to listen to The Power by Naomi Alderman next, but I'm rethinking that, since the same reviews that praised Red Clocks praised The Power, and I don't think I can face any more literary claptrap. |
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