Books I Have Read This Year

[redrose]

Fever Season - ed. C. J. Cherryh - collection of short stories in Merovingen shared world. V. good.

Troubled Waters - same - same.

Mademoiselle Boleyn - Robin Maxwell - very good, interesting look at Anne Boleyn in the French court. A time period of her life I have not seen touched upon yet.

Comments

Books you have read

[dilettante-j.livejournal.com]

... Aaaand how is that PhD going again? ;-)

Re: Books you have read

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

Okay, actually.

I have cut way, way back on the distractions and other hobbies, and I am really focussing on a few things:
-PhD.
-taking care of myself/hun/house
-hobbies = making stuff from stash, reading books

A lot of other things I want to do have been put on the "Later" list, and I am not even considering them now, which frees time and energy for the important things.

How's grad school for you?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

After catching up with magazines and stuff... I'm finally reading Catherynne Valente's In The Night Garden. I've only gone thru the Prologue, but I can tell I'm going to like this.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

oh, that one sounds interesting. I think I will put it on my keep-an-eye-out-for list!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

It's definitely going for an Arabian Nights approach: I'm only on page 27 and so far I've had the main character tell a tale within which an old woman tells a tale about when she was a young woman apprentice to an old witch who tells a tale about how the Universe was born.

Beautifully written too.