November novel-reading
Dec. 2nd, 2006 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garranOh, right.
This month included the first time since I started keeping track that I reread something, and I even that I did in preparation for my first reading of the sequels, later. This might give the impression that I'm generally a pretty forward-looking reader, but actually I seem to go through phases, depending somewhat nebulously on my mood; there are periods sometimes when the familiar is firmly in the majority. It also contained the inevitable first time that the fact of the record-keeping put me through my arts student version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- there was a day or two early on where I couldn't decide what to read next in large part because I was, semi-consciously, trying to decide what would look best next on the list -- but it was, happily, transitory and not overwhelming.
Steven Brust, Jhereg (reread)All the usual stuff applies -- I'm only keeping track of novels, I'm happy to be asked my opinion of any of these, and so on. (So far, the 'getting people to ask me about books' aspect of this experiment has gone really well.)
Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days
John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Steven Brust, Yendi
Steven Brust, Teckla
This month included the first time since I started keeping track that I reread something, and I even that I did in preparation for my first reading of the sequels, later. This might give the impression that I'm generally a pretty forward-looking reader, but actually I seem to go through phases, depending somewhat nebulously on my mood; there are periods sometimes when the familiar is firmly in the majority. It also contained the inevitable first time that the fact of the record-keeping put me through my arts student version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- there was a day or two early on where I couldn't decide what to read next in large part because I was, semi-consciously, trying to decide what would look best next on the list -- but it was, happily, transitory and not overwhelming.
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Addenda
Date: 2006-12-12 06:23 am (UTC)Saying that 'physical attraction' is not mentioned was probably a bit of an exaggeration; the characters do occasionally discuss each other's comeliness. It's just that these discussions seem to be divorced from the emotional reality of attraction to an almost Archie comics degree.
-Andy