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oh hey it's wednesday again already
What did you recently finish reading?
Tides by Betsy Cornwell. It was very sweet! It did fun things with selkie myths and had a nice engaging plot. I was ... somewhat less invested in the tale of selkie girl/earnest young scientist boy than I was in the backstory about selkie's also-selkie mum/earnest young scientist's grandmother, though; like, damn, we only get a couple of chapters for the story about the queer romance of a girl who keeps the lighthouse and longs to see the world with a gorgeous inquisitive being who nonetheless wants to bind her there? I am really glad we got that story even in short form! But I would have loved an entire novel about them, too.
What are you currently reading?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I will save my proper thoughts for when I'm done rather than about 2/3 of the way through, and will instead tell the story about how yesterday Neil Gaiman came by and bought coffee at the little cafe inside a bookstore where I work. "I'm reading Ocean at the End of the Lane!" I told him. "It's really lovely, but I was reading it while eating ..."
"Oh dear," he said. "The bit with the worm?"
"YES," I said. But he seemed pretty pleased about it, because of course he was. And I was pretty pleased about it too, because it's fun to watch someone be happy that their writing elicited the reaction they meant it to, but still. THAT BIT WITH THE WORM. :/
What do you think you'll read next?
Weeeell I have the ARC of a Malinda Lo book, and the Jo Walton still, and of course the Queen's Thief books. WE SHALL SEE.
I'll be honest, though, mostly I'm mainlining Welcome to Night Vale. What a good podcast!
Tides by Betsy Cornwell. It was very sweet! It did fun things with selkie myths and had a nice engaging plot. I was ... somewhat less invested in the tale of selkie girl/earnest young scientist boy than I was in the backstory about selkie's also-selkie mum/earnest young scientist's grandmother, though; like, damn, we only get a couple of chapters for the story about the queer romance of a girl who keeps the lighthouse and longs to see the world with a gorgeous inquisitive being who nonetheless wants to bind her there? I am really glad we got that story even in short form! But I would have loved an entire novel about them, too.
What are you currently reading?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I will save my proper thoughts for when I'm done rather than about 2/3 of the way through, and will instead tell the story about how yesterday Neil Gaiman came by and bought coffee at the little cafe inside a bookstore where I work. "I'm reading Ocean at the End of the Lane!" I told him. "It's really lovely, but I was reading it while eating ..."
"Oh dear," he said. "The bit with the worm?"
"YES," I said. But he seemed pretty pleased about it, because of course he was. And I was pretty pleased about it too, because it's fun to watch someone be happy that their writing elicited the reaction they meant it to, but still. THAT BIT WITH THE WORM. :/
What do you think you'll read next?
Weeeell I have the ARC of a Malinda Lo book, and the Jo Walton still, and of course the Queen's Thief books. WE SHALL SEE.
I'll be honest, though, mostly I'm mainlining Welcome to Night Vale. What a good podcast!