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Wednesday Reading Meme
Jul. 3rd, 2013 07:14 pmWhat are you currently reading
Legend of the White-Haired Demoness by Liang Yusheng, ch 2-4.
( spoilers )
Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott. Nonfiction about famous (and less so) mistresses throughout history and in literature. I'm on page 77 out of 500, and it's a bit of a "cliffnotes: version: in addition to various cultural and historical notes for each of her categories, Abbott looks to have at least 70-80 entries, each with a minibiography of 3-7~ pages, so there isn't room to get into a lot of depth with most of them. Pretty good so far, though.
What did you recently finish reading?
A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead. WWII nonfiction about 230 women in the French Resistance who were captured and sent to Auschwitz, only 49 of whom survived. The first half of the book focused on the women's work and how they were captured, and the second half on their experiences while imprisoned. Moorehead interviewed the 7 survivors she was able to locate who were still living when she began work on the book, and so there's considerably more detail about their experiences than in other book about captured spies in WWII that I've read (the others were also about SOE agents, and so also spent quite a bit of time focusing on homefront operations which, if you're familiar with the SOE, can inspire a whole different kind of rage.) It's good and fascinating in the most awful way, and I feel I need to consume about 5000 hours of fluff and love and joy to recover from some of it.
I read a bit of Kelley Armstrong's Men of the Otherworld collection, but then realized that it was all about the werewolf dudes, and decided there were much better ways to spend my time.
What do you think you'll read next?
More Legend of the White-Haired Demoness and Mistresses, library books
Legend of the White-Haired Demoness by Liang Yusheng, ch 2-4.
( spoilers )
Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott. Nonfiction about famous (and less so) mistresses throughout history and in literature. I'm on page 77 out of 500, and it's a bit of a "cliffnotes: version: in addition to various cultural and historical notes for each of her categories, Abbott looks to have at least 70-80 entries, each with a minibiography of 3-7~ pages, so there isn't room to get into a lot of depth with most of them. Pretty good so far, though.
What did you recently finish reading?
A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead. WWII nonfiction about 230 women in the French Resistance who were captured and sent to Auschwitz, only 49 of whom survived. The first half of the book focused on the women's work and how they were captured, and the second half on their experiences while imprisoned. Moorehead interviewed the 7 survivors she was able to locate who were still living when she began work on the book, and so there's considerably more detail about their experiences than in other book about captured spies in WWII that I've read (the others were also about SOE agents, and so also spent quite a bit of time focusing on homefront operations which, if you're familiar with the SOE, can inspire a whole different kind of rage.) It's good and fascinating in the most awful way, and I feel I need to consume about 5000 hours of fluff and love and joy to recover from some of it.
I read a bit of Kelley Armstrong's Men of the Otherworld collection, but then realized that it was all about the werewolf dudes, and decided there were much better ways to spend my time.
What do you think you'll read next?
More Legend of the White-Haired Demoness and Mistresses, library books
