May. 21
12:36 PM
Quick Reading Update
I'm starting to get really into my next project, which means a slackening of my already slack reading pace, but I've recently read and/or acquired a tidy stack of awesome texts. I've been trying to be a bit better read in "the community," and couldn't think of a better place to start than my livejournal friends list. The Running with the Pack anthology, for example, is edited by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
squirrel_monkey and has truly awesome stories by vegan_vulcan , glvalentine , samhenderson , stillsostrange, swan_tower , and erzebet , just to name the ones I've read so far. In the interest of full disclosure I should mention that i have a story in there as well and am thus reading a contributor's copy, but even if I hadn't made the cut I would very much recommend the book--great stuff, and a choice variety of tones and styles.
Speaking ofstillsostrange, I finally read her debut The Drowning City and thought it was brilliant, fun, dark, and all the other good adjectives. I'd put off reading it until I turned in my finished version of The Enterprise of Death since I knew Amanda's novel also featured necromancy pretty heavily and I make a habit out of not reading fiction that might influence or discourage me when I'm working on a particular project--from what I'd heard about them I avoided McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Abercrombie's First Law trilogy when I was working on the Brothers Grossbart, and I put off reading The Drowning City and Brian McNaughton's The Throne of Boneswhile working on Enterprise. An actual review of TDC is forthcoming, but in the meantime a big old fuck yes--the first trilogy opener I've read in a while that didn't read like a trilogy opener.
I also recently picked upimago1's collection Occultation, out from Night Shade Books, and selfavowedgeek's chapbook The Glamour Down Two Path Roads, from erzebet's Papavaria Press. I ordered them at the same time but Occultation arrived first so I've been tearing through that--received the other yesterday, and it's likewise a very handsome little book. More on these when I finish them, and samhenderson's Heaven's Bones, which is also on the stack.
So that's me and what I'm reading, though as I said my intake will likely as not sharply drop off as the new super secret project grows and occupies more and more of my attention. You guys reading anything good recently?
squirrel_monkey and has truly awesome stories by vegan_vulcan , glvalentine , samhenderson , stillsostrange, swan_tower , and erzebet , just to name the ones I've read so far. In the interest of full disclosure I should mention that i have a story in there as well and am thus reading a contributor's copy, but even if I hadn't made the cut I would very much recommend the book--great stuff, and a choice variety of tones and styles.Speaking of
stillsostrange, I finally read her debut The Drowning City and thought it was brilliant, fun, dark, and all the other good adjectives. I'd put off reading it until I turned in my finished version of The Enterprise of Death since I knew Amanda's novel also featured necromancy pretty heavily and I make a habit out of not reading fiction that might influence or discourage me when I'm working on a particular project--from what I'd heard about them I avoided McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Abercrombie's First Law trilogy when I was working on the Brothers Grossbart, and I put off reading The Drowning City and Brian McNaughton's The Throne of Boneswhile working on Enterprise. An actual review of TDC is forthcoming, but in the meantime a big old fuck yes--the first trilogy opener I've read in a while that didn't read like a trilogy opener.I also recently picked up
imago1's collection Occultation, out from Night Shade Books, and selfavowedgeek's chapbook The Glamour Down Two Path Roads, from erzebet's Papavaria Press. I ordered them at the same time but Occultation arrived first so I've been tearing through that--received the other yesterday, and it's likewise a very handsome little book. More on these when I finish them, and samhenderson's Heaven's Bones, which is also on the stack.So that's me and what I'm reading, though as I said my intake will likely as not sharply drop off as the new super secret project grows and occupies more and more of my attention. You guys reading anything good recently?