Reading Wrap-Up: November 2022
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justanorthernlightThe Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite (Feminine Pursuits series #1) - F/F regency romance about the relationship between a young female scholar who had basically taken over her father's astronomy work during his final years and a widowed countess with a complicated relationship to her late husband's own scientific work.
This one was enjoyable, if pretty predictable. The central relationship was enjoyable and well balanced, with each part of the couple having her own ups and downs throughout, the historical-ness passed the sniff test for me (particularly in that, while it didn't shy away from talking about historically accurate sexism/racism/homophobia, it didn't fall into the trap of using way too modern vocabulary to do so), and there was some some interesting discussion on Science vs Art, and what society values as art.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Reread. Not much to say about it I didn't say last time, but I still really like it and probably should reread the Chronicles of Narnia sometime soon.
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Great Jedi Rescue by Cavan Scott - In trying to read the High Republic comics it has become clear I need to actually read most of the High Republic content regardless of format/age-range for the other parts parts of it to make sense. This one is a kids picture book retelling the opening disaster from Light of the Jedi from the perspective of the Wookie padawan Burryaga. I probably could have skipped it (it's at about a kindergarten reading level), but at least it came with stickers :)
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2022 reading goal progress: Total books: 23 of 50; nonfiction: 3 of 7.
I'm currently in various stages of reading Don't Make Me Think: A Common-Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability by Steve Krug (nonfiction, for school, and I should have finished reading it months ago), Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray (about what I've come to expect from a Claudia Gray novel), and The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett (reread, someday eventually I am going to finish this series in its entirety).
This one was enjoyable, if pretty predictable. The central relationship was enjoyable and well balanced, with each part of the couple having her own ups and downs throughout, the historical-ness passed the sniff test for me (particularly in that, while it didn't shy away from talking about historically accurate sexism/racism/homophobia, it didn't fall into the trap of using way too modern vocabulary to do so), and there was some some interesting discussion on Science vs Art, and what society values as art.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Reread. Not much to say about it I didn't say last time, but I still really like it and probably should reread the Chronicles of Narnia sometime soon.
Star Wars: The High Republic: The Great Jedi Rescue by Cavan Scott - In trying to read the High Republic comics it has become clear I need to actually read most of the High Republic content regardless of format/age-range for the other parts parts of it to make sense. This one is a kids picture book retelling the opening disaster from Light of the Jedi from the perspective of the Wookie padawan Burryaga. I probably could have skipped it (it's at about a kindergarten reading level), but at least it came with stickers :)
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2022 reading goal progress: Total books: 23 of 50; nonfiction: 3 of 7.
I'm currently in various stages of reading Don't Make Me Think: A Common-Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability by Steve Krug (nonfiction, for school, and I should have finished reading it months ago), Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray (about what I've come to expect from a Claudia Gray novel), and The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett (reread, someday eventually I am going to finish this series in its entirety).
