What I'm reading
Jan. 19th, 2019 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjaneFinished Laurie King's Island of the Mad and have returned to my interrupted read of Craig Johnson's As the Crow Flies.
I was indeed right about the answer to Island's mystery. That didn't bother me, and I enjoyed watching these two brainy Brits navigating Venice during the rise of Mussolini's power.
But I feel about Laurie King's later novels much the way I feel about Lois Bujold's: she isn't stretching herself anymore. Not sure if she's tired, or feels hemmed-in by the arcs to date, or what. The books are still enjoyable reads, but there isn't any fire.
I also finished reading MacHinery, by Tom McGowan, to the menfolk. Now that I'm older I can see the thin spots in this book, but it still warms my heart. Merlin, demanding of a geeky physicist that if they survive the demon onslaught he wants two week's conversation between the two of them because these scientific ideas are just so fascinating. The retired army sergeant FINALLY making use of the sten gun he liberated upon demobilization - to fight a dragon! It's just lovely.
I was indeed right about the answer to Island's mystery. That didn't bother me, and I enjoyed watching these two brainy Brits navigating Venice during the rise of Mussolini's power.
But I feel about Laurie King's later novels much the way I feel about Lois Bujold's: she isn't stretching herself anymore. Not sure if she's tired, or feels hemmed-in by the arcs to date, or what. The books are still enjoyable reads, but there isn't any fire.
I also finished reading MacHinery, by Tom McGowan, to the menfolk. Now that I'm older I can see the thin spots in this book, but it still warms my heart. Merlin, demanding of a geeky physicist that if they survive the demon onslaught he wants two week's conversation between the two of them because these scientific ideas are just so fascinating. The retired army sergeant FINALLY making use of the sten gun he liberated upon demobilization - to fight a dragon! It's just lovely.
