FF: As Time Goes On

Mei-Ling Admires Mary’s Secret Door

This week, I’ve been re-reading a lot.  However, I read the Delany books so long ago that I remember only flashes—a phrase, an image—that lets me know I’ve been there before, but very little about the details.  Delany is interesting to me in that he is a writer for whom setting/idea generates plot and characters, but neither of the latter is flattened by this.

And the usual reminder…  The Friday Fragments is not a book review column; it’s a list of what I’m reading and maybe a bit about my opinions.  I always read the Comments section, because I enjoy learning what other people are reading.  Oh, and I don’t usually list shorter works unless in a collection or articles.  I also don’t usually list my scattered research reading.

Completed:

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan.  Audiobook.  The start of his Heroes of Olympus series, which comes after Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  A long-time favorite of mine, and one that fits right in as I’m longing for Spring.

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany.

In Progress:

Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman.  Audiobook.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany.

Also:

Still working on that American Archeology of which I’d only read half.  I’m almost done, but I interrupted myself to scan through the new AARP magazine.  When I started the Over Where series (in which several of my characters are not young), I had people question whether an older person would be capable of doing so much.  AARP provides a great reminder that age does not equal inadequacy.