What are you reading?

[venividivicibj]

Started A Wizard of Earthsea, so far, its slow going.

Before that it was The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty. A interesting magic/wizard/fantasy story that uses middle eastern imagery/history/locale rather than the typical euro centric.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Arrived home to find this on the door stoop…

 

[ppk]

Started A Wizard of Earthsea, so far, its slow going.

Before that it was The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty. A interesting magic/wizard/fantasy story that uses middle eastern imagery/history/locale rather than the typical euro centric.

Both are so good.

S.A.C. is a really good writer. Fast paced but still very unique topic and style.

 

[ppk]

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - I am a sucker for this type of book. I am not sure of the category, but something like magical historic fiction. I'm enjoying it so far.

 

[imatlas]

Started A Wizard of Earthsea, so far, its slow going.

Before that it was The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty. A interesting magic/wizard/fantasy story that uses middle eastern imagery/history/locale rather than the typical euro centric.

Both are so good.

S.A.C. is a really good writer. Fast paced but still very unique topic and style.

You might enjoy The Devourers by Indra Das. It’s a somewhat gory horror about a queer Indian werewolf. Very open to interpretation. Good stuff.

 

[SixOhNine]

S.A.C. is a really good writer. Fast paced but still very unique topic and style.

I've been meaning to pick up The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, but I've been slowly working through James Clavell's Asian Saga. Maybe when I finish Gai-Jin, I'll read it as a palate cleanser. Clavell's good, but there just so much going on.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

 

[edinatlanta]

Picked this up again. I will finish it by Thanksgiving.

I did. Maybe 75 pages too long. Definitely pushing the edge of what qualifies as old non fiction and how some of it is a bit past its moment. The book is primarily about New Mexico and northern Mexico as the pathway to the Southwest, with a touch of Arizona. Utah, Nevada, western Texas and the California desert are mentioned in passing to various degrees, very rarely impacting the narrative. Gaining access to the Hopi was interesting and that as he realized there was nothing really there. I was also chuckling at the descriptions of pot and how much dancing around it he had to do.

I am now watching the Milagro Beanfield War. The author wrote a positive blurb for the book.

 

[imatlas]

I am now watching the Milagro Beanfield War.

Great movie from a great novel.