Wednesday Reading Meme - catch up
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venetia_sassyBooks of April
Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Strikethrough: Did not like; do not recommend.
Non-fiction
The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
The classic history of Australian transportation and settlement. And it's a classic for a reason, I can't believe I hadn't read it before. It's not difficult to read but it was so dense with ideas and information that it took me awhile to get through it. Highly recommended.
Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia by Penny Russell
Odd book, I was never quite sure of the what the author was trying to say. It offered some very interesting glimpses into Australian history but how they all connected, I'm not sure. It was an easy enough read, once I got used to the author's verbosity. I read a particularly convoluted passage out to Mum and she said:
"That was very ... uni."
"She's an Associate Professor."
"Ah. That would explain it."
Fiction
Reread Shelly Laurenston's Pride series in preparation for the 9th and possibly final book coming out in May.
The Mane Event (Pride, #1)
The Beast in Him (Pride, #2)
The Mane Attraction (Pride, #3)
The Mane Squeeze (Pride, #4)
Beast Behaving Badly (Pride, #5)
Big Bad Beast (Pride, #6)
Bear Meets Girl (Pride, #7)
Wolf with Benefits (Pride, #8)
When He Was Bad (Magnus Pack #3.5)
These books are utter crack and I adore them. The worldbuilding is slight, the plots are mostly vehicles for the snark, the characters are batshit awesome and the friendships and relationships are fantastic. And there are more than just the usual big cat and wolf shapeshifters - all kinds of bears, foxes, hyenas, wild dogs, jackals, etc, plus hybrids. And all have different social structures. That aspect of world building is excellent.
I gave an mostly impromptu mini-pimp for the series at SinpOz in June (start with Book #4!) Partly to encourage other people to read the books but mostly because I really, really want a Hockey RPF fusion or crossover fic. There's have a shapeshifter hockey league, okay?!?!
Underline: Greatly enjoyed; highly recommend.
Non-fiction
The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
The classic history of Australian transportation and settlement. And it's a classic for a reason, I can't believe I hadn't read it before. It's not difficult to read but it was so dense with ideas and information that it took me awhile to get through it. Highly recommended.
Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia by Penny Russell
Odd book, I was never quite sure of the what the author was trying to say. It offered some very interesting glimpses into Australian history but how they all connected, I'm not sure. It was an easy enough read, once I got used to the author's verbosity. I read a particularly convoluted passage out to Mum and she said:
"That was very ... uni."
"She's an Associate Professor."
"Ah. That would explain it."
Fiction
Reread Shelly Laurenston's Pride series in preparation for the 9th and possibly final book coming out in May.
The Mane Event (Pride, #1)
The Beast in Him (Pride, #2)
The Mane Attraction (Pride, #3)
The Mane Squeeze (Pride, #4)
Beast Behaving Badly (Pride, #5)
Big Bad Beast (Pride, #6)
Bear Meets Girl (Pride, #7)
Wolf with Benefits (Pride, #8)
When He Was Bad (Magnus Pack #3.5)
These books are utter crack and I adore them. The worldbuilding is slight, the plots are mostly vehicles for the snark, the characters are batshit awesome and the friendships and relationships are fantastic. And there are more than just the usual big cat and wolf shapeshifters - all kinds of bears, foxes, hyenas, wild dogs, jackals, etc, plus hybrids. And all have different social structures. That aspect of world building is excellent.
I gave an mostly impromptu mini-pimp for the series at SinpOz in June (start with Book #4!) Partly to encourage other people to read the books but mostly because I really, really want a Hockey RPF fusion or crossover fic. There's have a shapeshifter hockey league, okay?!?!
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Date: 2014-09-12 07:43 pm (UTC)"She's an Associate Professor."
"Ah. That would explain it."
*giggles*
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Date: 2014-09-13 03:08 pm (UTC)