lonespark: Cassidy from "Far Beyond the Stars" (Default)
I have read 1/3 or the stories in Sunspot Jungle V1 & I frequently feel like I need to lie on the floor & have thoughts & feelings about them, so that's a hard recommend on that, friends.

It's also The Summer Prince Feelings Time again.


 
lonespark: Cassidy from "Far Beyond the Stars" (Default)
(Currently reading, may finish before year's end)

Nyumbani Tales

An Idigenous People's History of the United States

Dread Nation

(Finished)

Sorceror of the Wildeeps

The Covert Captain

The Black God's Drums

A Taste of Honey

The Second Mango

Children of Blood and Bone

Mapping Mars

Cahokia: Some subtitle I can't remember

The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia

Dark Universe

Folding Paper

Hygge: The Danish Art of something something

The Killing Moon

The Shadowed Sun

Before The Safari (Changa's Safari prequel anthology)

Wild Seed

Clay's Ark

The one after Clay's Ark but before Patternmaster

(beyond this point I'm losing track and starting to get fuzzy about the year...)

some other books I read or reread kind of recently and want to talk about:

La Rosa de Matanzas

Priestess of nKu

Agents of the Realm

Everfair

Order of the Seers Book 1

Abengoni: First Calling

Amber and the Hidden City
lonespark: Cassidy from "Far Beyond the Stars" (Teyla)
Spoilerific ranting will be found in this post and all the other ones I make on the subject.


My overall impressions of the book are these:

Why can't all of this book be as good as some of this book?!?

...yeah...

Specifically my two favorite bits, although it sounds weird to say that because they were so vividly horrible at times, were the part with Salim and the ifrit and the story of Wututu and Agasu, the African twins. But when I was reading those parts I was deeply involved in the story and I cared about the characters in a way that wasn't true in the other parts of the book.

In the back of my copy there's an interview with Neil Gaiman and he said something about trying to write in an uncomplicated "American style." That could be part of it, but I think it's more about the characters, and maybe their cultural context...somehow?

Plus also, my opinion of the big story is mostly "You seem to think you can tell stories like this without the Asynjur, but you are WRONG wrong wrong." (Ack, I wrote that, and then I realized I had forgotten about Easter, so hmmm. Maybe it's more my massive discomfort with telling stories about Odin and Baldur and sacrifice and ERASING FRIGGA AAAARGH.)
lonespark: Miko from Stargate:Atlantis (Miko)
I guess this isn't not a book review, of sorts.

Dear Most Admirable Internet Acquaintance,

I have come rushing home to say,

I have read a story
in the lesbian steampunk anthology
Steam-Powered 2,

"Grenada's Library."

It is about women
who are brave and wise and strong and faithful
and old and frail and doubtful
(and also girls
who are brave and revolutionary
and very foolish).

They are Christians and Muslims and Jews
and secularists
and heretics
and lovers

They are leaders
(and followers, and saboteurs, and mechanics)
and they are,
first
and last
and in their pure, true Selves

Librarians

and so I thought of you.

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