FF: Finding Time
Kel Asks, “What Is Truth?”
Reading is taking something of a backseat to writing. However, since I’ve learned I write better when I am making time to read, I’m cheerfully finding time.
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.
Recently Completed:
Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Re-read. Very much enjoyed.
Tales From The Nine Worlds by Rick Riordan. Audiobook. Short stories set in the “Magnus Chase” world. Amusing, but mostly lacking the emotional punch of the novels. Each story had a different reader to go with the different POV characters, a mostly successful element. Possibly the best element was the framing device.
In Progress:
Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization by Will Durant. Audiobook. We finished India with the – at the time the book was written – contemporary figure of Mahatma Gandhi. Fascinating additional element.
The Truth by Terry Pratchett. Re-read. This one moves me back in the Discworld timeline from the books I have been reading, but belongs to what I think of as the “Pratchett moves the Discworld out of the Fantasy Middle Ages” arc, so sort of fits.
Also:
I’ve been writing fairly steadily, so not much additional reading.
