Reading on the Road

While I’m on my trip, I’m going to be stuck in airports and such. What can a discriminating writer read while waiting for her connections? Here’s what I’ve gathered so far.

Two are paperbacks from my shelves. Dragonflight is the starter for Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series. I first read it in high school and it’s still my favorite of the series. Also Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Tombs of Atuan, second in her Earthsea series. All those books are incredible, and they’ve been an inspiration to me, but Atuan has a special place in my heart. A young girl strives to find her own identity, while trapped in an eldritch labyrinth and surrounded by jealous older colleagues.

Two others are contemporary e-books. Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire, is in the middle of another series I’ve been catching up on. You know how in YA fantasy there often are Earth children who visit fantasy lands? The Wayward Children series is about a home for such children who find themselves back on Earth and struggling to adjust. McGuire hasn’t always been my favorite author, but she’s hitting my sweet spot with these.

I’ve also picked up a brand new release, A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys. It’s a near-future novel where environmentalist enclaves are trying to maintain some semblance of a civilization while fending off pollution from industrial enclaves — only to have aliens show up! The combination of post-apocalypse with utopian striving sounds intriguing.

Well, friends, what have you been reading this summer?

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