WWW Wednesday

[deborahjross]

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?


Here are my answers:
Currently reading fiction: Cinder by Marissa Meyer. YA retelling of you-guessed-it, but she's a cyborg in a dystopic future Japanese empire, and the Queen of the Moon has designs on the Prince but has the only cure to the plague, oh and Cinder's best human friend is her stepsister who contracts aforementioned plague... marvelous fun. Also Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Enemy - Sean Bean made me do it.
Currently reading nonfiction: Raphael Patai The Hebrew Goddess, not the best introduction if you're unfamiliar with Jewish theology and Jewish feminist thought, but just right for where I am, having just finished ReVisions: Seeing Torah Through A Feminist Lens, by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein. I'm struck by how even the most adamantly monotheistic religion keeps incorporating the goddess...

Recently finished: J. M. Frey, Triptych (reviewed elsewhere); Marianne de Pierres, Glitter Rose - eeriely evocative linked shorts by an Australian writer; Gail Carrigan, Timeless; Jack McDevitt, Firebird.

Next up: Franny Billingsley, Chime (YA); Laura Anne Gilman, Blood From Stone; Carol Berg, The Soul Mirror; Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium; Donald B. Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

What I'm currently reading: Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges.
What I just read: Lewis Hyde, The Gift: how the creative spirit transforms the world.
What I'm likely to read next: C E Murphy, No Dominion.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

Ooh, some great suggestions there. I don't know C E Murphy's work at all - any thoughts?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I'd start with Urban Shaman: great fun.

[controuble.livejournal.com]

I second reading Catie's books - they are awesome.

[controuble.livejournal.com]

• What are you currently reading?
Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey (about half-way)
• What did you recently finish reading?
Among Others, Jo Walton
• What do you think you’ll read next?
A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin

Trying to be a responsible voter for the Hugos and I need to get these back to the library before the end of the month.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

How's the Corey?

I read Among Others a little while ago and adored it. Where were these people when I was 16?

[controuble.livejournal.com]

If you like space opera and detective books, you will like it. It has quite a few unexpected twists already and I am having more trouble putting it down than I have any of the others I read so far. This is a good thing because I need to finish it quickly as I suspect Dance is going to take more than a week to read and my books are due back the 29th.

[lindanagata.livejournal.com]

I read Leviathan Wakes not too long ago, and most recently finished Greg Egan's Incandescence. I think Among Others is going to be next up for novels, but I want to spend some time reading short stories too.