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What I just read
The Last Kashmiri Rose, by Barbara Cleverly. OK, I think three of these is enough for a while, because there's just enough similarity in tone that I can easily see myself getting tired of them. (Also, I recommend reading this before Not My Blood, not because it's the first of these, but because there's character development and the later book is a bit of a spoiler for the earlier.) rot-13 out what is probably an excess of caution about possible spoilers: V jnfa'g ragveryl pbaivaprq ol gur funcr bs gur eriratr zbgvir, naq rira vs rirelbar va gur obbx—frg va Oevgvfu-ehyrq Vaqvn abg ybat nsgre Jbeyq Jne V—vf cercnerq gb nggevohgr vg gb gevony phygher, gung srryf n ovg yvxr gurl'er znxvat rkphfrf gb nibvq guvaxvat nobhg gur vqrn gung fbzrbar gurl xarj naq yvxrq, jub jnfa'g gung qvssrerag sebz gurz, pbhyq pbzzvg gubfr pevzrf. Be znlor V'z znxvat rkphfrf sbe gur nhgube'f cerwhqvprf; V qba'g xabj irel zhpu nobhg ure.
What I am reading now
The Cambrian Explosion, by Douglas H. Erwin and James W. Valentine. Since last week's post, I decided to skip the rest of the chapter on development and see how much of chapter 9, on "Ghost Lineages," I have time and energy to read before I have to give the book back to the library.
Dark Integers and Other Stories, by Greg Egan. I'm enjoying the book so far, and the characterization is better than in some of Egan's work. I had already read the first story in the book, "Luminous," which the title story is a sequel to. Those two are set on Earth at about our time, and the what-ifs are mathematical.
What I am likely to read next
A Stranger in Solondria, by Sofia Samatar [I grabbed something else at the library and started it while waiting for a bus home, which pushed this down the stack.]
The Last Kashmiri Rose, by Barbara Cleverly. OK, I think three of these is enough for a while, because there's just enough similarity in tone that I can easily see myself getting tired of them. (Also, I recommend reading this before Not My Blood, not because it's the first of these, but because there's character development and the later book is a bit of a spoiler for the earlier.) rot-13 out what is probably an excess of caution about possible spoilers: V jnfa'g ragveryl pbaivaprq ol gur funcr bs gur eriratr zbgvir, naq rira vs rirelbar va gur obbx—frg va Oevgvfu-ehyrq Vaqvn abg ybat nsgre Jbeyq Jne V—vf cercnerq gb nggevohgr vg gb gevony phygher, gung srryf n ovg yvxr gurl'er znxvat rkphfrf gb nibvq guvaxvat nobhg gur vqrn gung fbzrbar gurl xarj naq yvxrq, jub jnfa'g gung qvssrerag sebz gurz, pbhyq pbzzvg gubfr pevzrf. Be znlor V'z znxvat rkphfrf sbe gur nhgube'f cerwhqvprf; V qba'g xabj irel zhpu nobhg ure.
What I am reading now
The Cambrian Explosion, by Douglas H. Erwin and James W. Valentine. Since last week's post, I decided to skip the rest of the chapter on development and see how much of chapter 9, on "Ghost Lineages," I have time and energy to read before I have to give the book back to the library.
Dark Integers and Other Stories, by Greg Egan. I'm enjoying the book so far, and the characterization is better than in some of Egan's work. I had already read the first story in the book, "Luminous," which the title story is a sequel to. Those two are set on Earth at about our time, and the what-ifs are mathematical.
What I am likely to read next
A Stranger in Solondria, by Sofia Samatar [I grabbed something else at the library and started it while waiting for a bus home, which pushed this down the stack.]
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