FF: Breathing Between the Lines
Persephone Overcome By Toxic Spells
In Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, there’s a line “No one sings hymns to breath.” (I think I have that right.) Anyhow, with smoke from fires distant and not so interfering with my breathing, I am definitely grateful for living in an age of modern medicine.
For those of you just discovering this part of my blog, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week. Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines.
The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list. If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.
Once again, this is not a book review column. It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.
What are you reading?
Recently Completed:
The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace. In many ways, stories of a world as alien as that of The Expanse, but the dreams and ambitions of Betsy and her friends remain a link through time.
Odin: The Viking AllFather by Steven S. Long. I very much enjoyed. Excellent illustrations, in-depth examination of a complex mythological figure. Recommended.
In Progress:
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. Audiobook. I’d forgotten what rogues these guys are…
DreamForge: Tales of Hope in the Universe. Mockup issue.
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove. Don’t read this unless you can take puns. If you can, this is a work in which Turtledove turns his skills at alternate history to an alternate more peculiar than most.
Also:
A magazine article here and there, but mostly trying to finish off various smaller writing projects while not losing sight of the larger ones.
