Reading Wednesday
Mar. 27th, 2019 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinaed We've still got like...ten minutes left of Wednesday. That totally counts, right?
Recently Finished
Still chipping away at my pile of library books, which means I reread Harpist in the Wind by Patricia McKillip, the final book in one of my all-time favorite trilogies, and then Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou and The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani.
The Riddlemaster of Hed is one of my favorite trilogies of all time-- Patricia McKillip's prose makes me green with envy, and it's so much fun to reread the series every few years and fall in love with the language again. Bad Blood was a fascinating if frustrating read about Elizabeth Holmes and her scam company. It's incredible how many people she hoodwinked and for how long she got away with it!
The Night Diary was a required reading for work, but it was also a harrowing but wonderful read. It's an epistolary novel in the form of a twelve-year-old half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl writing a diary to her dead mother as she and her family are affected by the Partition that separated Pakistan and India. It's a tough read, but a rewarding one, and tackles so many difficult topics at once with a deft hand and a believable young narrator. Definitely one of the best children's books I've read in a while!
The Riddlemaster of Hed is one of my favorite trilogies of all time-- Patricia McKillip's prose makes me green with envy, and it's so much fun to reread the series every few years and fall in love with the language again. Bad Blood was a fascinating if frustrating read about Elizabeth Holmes and her scam company. It's incredible how many people she hoodwinked and for how long she got away with it!
The Night Diary was a required reading for work, but it was also a harrowing but wonderful read. It's an epistolary novel in the form of a twelve-year-old half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl writing a diary to her dead mother as she and her family are affected by the Partition that separated Pakistan and India. It's a tough read, but a rewarding one, and tackles so many difficult topics at once with a deft hand and a believable young narrator. Definitely one of the best children's books I've read in a while!
Currently Reading
I've just started The Mortal Word, the latest book in Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series. This series is great, even if I sigh a bit over yet again librarians having magical libraries and keeping outsiders from being able to enjoy the collection. It's more of an archive, but I do love Irene and the other characters, and look forward to see what trouble they're going to get themselves into this book.
What's Next
Whatever's due back at the library, so probably either Simon Batz's, For the thrill of it: Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked Chicago, which, surprise surprise is about the Leopold and Loeb murder, or Blood royal: a true tale of crime and detection in medieval Paris by Eric Jager, which is about the assassination of King Charles' brother Louis of Orleans and looked interesting.
