FF: Shifting Priorities
Ogapoge Considers Alternate Routes
We’re definitely shifting to autumn, here. Since no one is advertising “Autumn Reads,” I guess I need to figure out what works on my own.
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.
Do you have any reads that go well with pumpkin spice?
Recently Completed:
The Bone Reader by Mab Morris. A murder mystery combined with court intrigue, featuring a fortune teller who doesn’t believe her own prophesies. I enjoyed but, honest assessment, the writing is not as strong as in the other books by this author I’ve read. Still, I’d give it a thumbs up for people who like this type of story.
In Progress:
Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey. Audiobook. I’ll be honest. I miss the elements of alien intelligences and artifacts. That’s part of what made this series special to me. If I want to read about war and the moral and ethical elements that arise, I’ll read history. Not bad. Just not the stretch of the mind that I read SF for. However, I’m not done and don’t plan to quit.
Alternate Routes by Tim Powers. Baen Books edition of a novel that apparently had a small press release first from Charnel House. Three cheers to Baen for making this more widely available. I’m just getting into it and it has the usual Powers weirdness.
Also:
I’ve been deciphering the instructions for a new craft project that was one of my recent birthday gifts. Feels as if it’s exercising my brain in all the right ways to make me a better writer. Weird how that works!
