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Just Finished: The Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff. One of the few military science fiction I still read. The selling point for me is that it is now about learning to veteran (in other words, learning to use those nifty military skills in civilian situations without freaking out your coworkers). There's a lot of focus on an inclusive military and the cost of seeing companions die. This being a Huff book there's a lot of unexceptional lgbt characters. Fluff, but fluff I need.

I DNFed An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. A good book, but was not grabbing me. I kind of liked the main character, but at least one of the secondary characters continually pissed me off

Currently reading: Dramatick Rivalry by L. A. Hall is my to go book. I'm mostly reading it on my phone on my commute or during lunch, since I haven't wanted to haul my library books around. I find it low key slice of life. This is several books into the series, so don't start here.

Next Up: Maybe a Geek Girl's Guide to Murder by Julie Anne Lindsey or The Monster Baru Comorant by Seth Dickinson. The Dickinson is a library book due Saturday, but.. I'm not sure I'm in the mood for that.

From ladybusiness, via yhlee. Bolding when I've read that book, italicising when I read something else by that author but not that book.
( This list might match up with my tastes. Half of the ones I haven't read, I've at least started. )

I'm giving myself amnesty for everything between when I last posted and last week. If you're really interested, friend me on goodreads (because I've mostly kept up to date on what I read there).

Read: I spent the early part of January starting and stopping books, both new books and rereads. Out of desperation, I went to Goodreads for inspiration, and was reminded that I hadn't read the last Laundry Files because it was more than I like to pay for ebooks, and I for some reason I didn't grab the library's copy. I like Stross's shift to Mo in The Annihilation Score, though her life in government service was very spot on (including the issue of developing uniforms, though that is more from a friend than my experience).

From there, I decided to try Seanan McGuire's Indexing stories. Pacing is weird (I assume due to it being released in bits by Kindle Serial), but I found it fun.

Reading: Random trawling through Amazon recommendations brought me to Jo Graham's Black Ships, a retelling of Aeneid. Readable so far, and I'm curious to see how it goes. I'm debating if I should follow it up with Le Guin's Lavinia, or if reading two versions back to back would be distracting.

To Read: Either the previously mentioned, or Marguerite Reed's Archangel. Unless someone recommends something else.

Read: Finished The Price of Valour over the weekend. I'm torn on how I feel about how much he followed the French revolution. On one hand, I hate how it has become the short hand for terror the mobs (because it isn't the only example you can pull from in history), but I like how he handles the Napoleon counterpart. I do love Winter, though half her problems come from sleeping with her subordinate.

Reading: I'm to exciting part of Phoenix in Flight. But the latest by N.K. Jemison (The Fifth Season) downloaded last night, so I think I might put the reread on hold to read the exciting new thing

Up Next: Back to the Exordium books.

This seems like a delightful meme, so I shall try it (hey, I've actually managed to track most of my reading this year on Goodreads)

What are you reading?
I'm currently reading two books, one at home in the evening and one at work during my lunch hour. That's because my "bath" book is a physical book I checked out from the library, and I've gotten lazy about not taking anything but my nook to work.

My "bath" book is Marie Brennan's Midnight Never Comes. I'd been avoiding it because I thought I was bored with Elizabethan fairies. On the other hand, I've enjoyed her short stories when they've come up on my podcast feeds (I don't often read short stories, but they're perfect to me for listening to). Enjoying it enough that I'll check out the rest of the trilogy.

My lunch book is a reread of Octavia Butler's Dawn (Book 1 of Xenogenesis). It's a lot creepier of a book as an adult than it was a early teen. Somehow I missed all the slavery parallels the first time I read it. Still moving.

What did you recently finish reading?
Reread of Barbara Hambly's Witches of Wenshar (I love how she writes relationships) and Ursula Le Guin's The Birthday of the World. So I said two paragraphs ago how I don't enjoy short stories. Graydown prompted me to start reading the Tiptree winners, and then loaned me a copy of this collection with two winners in it. And either I've grown up more, or Le Guin has gotten even better a writing. Or both.

What do you think you’ll read next?
I requested the rest of Marie Brennan's novels from the library. I've got a few more Tiptree winners loaded on the nook, but I might save them for my trip. I might finish up the rest of the Xenogenesis books (I bought the all three on the cheap).