What're you reading?

[sweet_sparrow]

I'm curious, what's everyone reading right about now?

I'm currently doing some more of my university course prep reading because "Read this small section of the book" means "read the whole book" to me. (I mean, if you're not going to read the whole thing, what's the point?)

I've recently finished up Two Medieval Outlaws by Glyn Burgess, which translates two romances about outlaws and which was a lot of fun. I've also finished up The Alliterative Morte Arthure, which just proves, again, that I don't get along with medieval texts and am staring at The Stanzaic Le Morte Arthur before delving into Malory's more well-known Le Morte d'Arthur.

In between I've been reading The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett (well, I was until I finished it. ^-~) It was a lot of fun. Now I know why I've seen comments along the lines of "Austen, but with magic!" and the like. It's, obviously, more nuanced than that (and certainly not like, say, Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesThe Harp of the Grey Rose by Charles de Lint and I also need to reread Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising at some point so I can take notes and figure out if I can get enough out of the book to write an essay on it. And I should really, really pick up Kay's The Last Light of the Sun some time soon. I promised a friend to read it ages ago. >> Plus there's the group read too...

(Oh, and I should be rereading Shakespeare for that course too. I have too many books...)

So... what're you reading this month? ^-~

Comments

[shallowness]

I'm making my way through 'Teen Dreams - Rereading Teen Film and Television from Heathers to Veronica Mars' by Roz Kaveney, which is that rare thing, a non-fictional book that I'm reading. At some point today, I'm going to start 'Grass for His Pillow' by Lian Hearn, the second of The Tales of Otori, after having enjoyed the first some months ago.

[sweet_sparrow]

Not a big fan of non-fiction? I tend to have really bad luck with the non-fiction I pick up and it's either so simplified I want to throw a tantrum and go "Treat me like an intelligent adult!" or it's so dry it's almost deadly to try and read it.

I hope you'll enjoy Grass for His Pillow! It's been ages since I read Tales of the Otori, but they're somewhere on my reread pile. One day I'll get to them...

[shanaqui]

*randomly sees this comment*

...Do we have some kind of psychic link? Those books are on my reread list too...

[sweet_sparrow]

That depends... Are they on your reread list so you can get to the (reportedly not as good) prequel and sequel? ^-~ Because then I'd be inclined to say 'yes'. ^-~

[shanaqui]

Something like that, yes. *laughs*

[shallowness]

Over recent years, I've felt that I ought to read more non-fiction books, but my natural inclination is towrds fiction, and to read for relaxation. Non-fiction books feel like too much work or too much information most of the time! At their best, I want that information and keep reading within a contained period of time so I don't lose the thread. It is a matter of finding something that I don't find dry and starting to read it at a good time.

I did enjoy 'Grass for His Pillow' - the intrigue, the new and exotic context to me, ooh and the feminist strand with Kaede.