RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[spiralsheep]

When you're bookish then every day is "reading Wednesday".

What are you reading?

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[pedanther]

On the non-fiction side, I've finished reading A Choice of Catastrophes and am now reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.

On the fiction side, I have a couple of books going.

I finally made a start on Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover, which I've been actively not reading for 25 years because if I don't like it I'm going to have to finally admit that her adult fiction just doesn't work for me, despite how much I love some of her works for younger readers. It is, inconveniently, actually quite good, but the teenage protagonist reminds me uncomfortably of someone I used to be, and I put it down during a particularly stressful moment last week and haven't picked it up again.

Yesterday I decided to try Julian Rathbone's The Last English King, which is set around the time of the Norman Conquest of England. I'm not far enough into it yet to have formed any definite opinions.