Reading Wrap-Up: April 2022
May. 7th, 2022 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justanorthernlightThe only book I finished in April was The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials #2, reread). It was a bit of a letdown from The Golden Compass, I felt that Lyra's independence and competence levels were severely nerfed in order to make Will the driving force behind the plot (I'm also about 1/3rd of the way through The Amber Spyglass, and Lyra is still only along for the ride).
But, I will say Pullman's prose is very pretty. The chapter with Lee Scoresby's death and the end sequence where Will meets his father are very vividly and evocatively written. The worldbuilding is also vivid, but it goes broad on the multiverse instead of deep on any one particular world the characters find themselves in.
2022 reading goal progress: Total books: 9 of 50; nonfiction: 2 of 7.
I spent most of the month grinding away at schoolwork, and I read a lot of articles on the comparative merits of alphabetical ordering, hierarchical taxonomies, and user-tagged folksonomies in various contexts, as well as the history of encyclopedias and how they were sometimes used as tools of political subversion, but I don't really have place to chart these loose collections of PDFs and websites in my reading log.
Perhaps I should come up with one.
But, I will say Pullman's prose is very pretty. The chapter with Lee Scoresby's death and the end sequence where Will meets his father are very vividly and evocatively written. The worldbuilding is also vivid, but it goes broad on the multiverse instead of deep on any one particular world the characters find themselves in.
2022 reading goal progress: Total books: 9 of 50; nonfiction: 2 of 7.
I spent most of the month grinding away at schoolwork, and I read a lot of articles on the comparative merits of alphabetical ordering, hierarchical taxonomies, and user-tagged folksonomies in various contexts, as well as the history of encyclopedias and how they were sometimes used as tools of political subversion, but I don't really have place to chart these loose collections of PDFs and websites in my reading log.
Perhaps I should come up with one.
