Books I read in February 2023
Feb. 27th, 2023 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amado1I don't see myself reading any tomorrow, so I'll just post this early! It was a very dry month for books.
Total: 3 books
— Gedoku: The Art of Sakiyama;
— A Study in Murder (Dr. John Watson #3) by Robert Ryan;
— Star Trek: Q-Squared by Peter David.
Books I read significant amounts of but didn't finish: 4 books
— Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal;
— The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell;
— Star Trek: Spartacus by T.L. Mancour;
— Star Trek: Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David.
No nonfiction this month. Maybe that's why I'm so slow. Usually, when I have these dry spells, I can break them by either reading some comics/manga or by plunging into a good nonfiction book!
Thoughts on these books:
Gedoku is very pretty but not gnarly enough for my art tastes.
A Study in Murder, I did a full review on, so I'll skip it.
Q-Squared was tons of fun, probably my favorite Peter David book so far -- loved the hurt/comfort vibes and alternate realities.
Myra Breckenridge is the third or fourth Gore Vidal book I've tried to read. I like his vibe but his writing is just so dry and boring to me. I did have a few laugh-out-loud moments with this one, and it's SO SHORT but I don't know if I'll finish it.
The Kindly Ones is phenomenal. The only thing that stopped me is this: it's divided into parts instead of chapters, and every part is extremely long, which is fine -- BUT the Kindle version has no paragraph breaks! So if I stop in the middle of a part, I have a hard time figuring out where I left off or reorienting myself to the story. Because of this I've been putting off Part 2 until I know I have lots of time to sink my teeth into it.
Spartacus: I need to grind this one out. Just sit down and read the damn second half.
Rock and a Hard Place: Great book so far, lots of fun, but for some reason I just keep putting it down for days/weeks/months at a time XD I'll spend days NOT reading it, thinking, "God, I wonder what happens next! That scene with Stone...ooh and the conversation with Riker and Stephy! I wonder..." But then I don't pick it up. orz.
Total: 3 books
— Gedoku: The Art of Sakiyama;
— A Study in Murder (Dr. John Watson #3) by Robert Ryan;
— Star Trek: Q-Squared by Peter David.
Books I read significant amounts of but didn't finish: 4 books
— Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal;
— The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell;
— Star Trek: Spartacus by T.L. Mancour;
— Star Trek: Rock and a Hard Place by Peter David.
No nonfiction this month. Maybe that's why I'm so slow. Usually, when I have these dry spells, I can break them by either reading some comics/manga or by plunging into a good nonfiction book!
Thoughts on these books:
Gedoku is very pretty but not gnarly enough for my art tastes.
A Study in Murder, I did a full review on, so I'll skip it.
Q-Squared was tons of fun, probably my favorite Peter David book so far -- loved the hurt/comfort vibes and alternate realities.
Myra Breckenridge is the third or fourth Gore Vidal book I've tried to read. I like his vibe but his writing is just so dry and boring to me. I did have a few laugh-out-loud moments with this one, and it's SO SHORT but I don't know if I'll finish it.
The Kindly Ones is phenomenal. The only thing that stopped me is this: it's divided into parts instead of chapters, and every part is extremely long, which is fine -- BUT the Kindle version has no paragraph breaks! So if I stop in the middle of a part, I have a hard time figuring out where I left off or reorienting myself to the story. Because of this I've been putting off Part 2 until I know I have lots of time to sink my teeth into it.
Spartacus: I need to grind this one out. Just sit down and read the damn second half.
Rock and a Hard Place: Great book so far, lots of fun, but for some reason I just keep putting it down for days/weeks/months at a time XD I'll spend days NOT reading it, thinking, "God, I wonder what happens next! That scene with Stone...ooh and the conversation with Riker and Stephy! I wonder..." But then I don't pick it up. orz.
