What I've finished: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov. I was hoping that this book would give me more of what I liked about Caves of Steel (the solid sense of place in a skewed future world, some interesting robots) but less of what I hated (the world's worst detectiving and being unable to follow the trail of evidence if it was on fire, plus bonus casual sexism). It did the former (the various phobias of the characters were very prominent and viscerally done, with some neat thoughts of how they became "cultural" in the societies depicted), but fell. down. so. hard. on the latter. Detectiving: still terrible. Sexism: Doubled down on! Ugh. It didn't even give the robot character I like much to do! I am ANNOYED that I still want to read the next book in the series. ANNOYED, I TELL YOU. I blame the popcorn effect, since these books are fairly short.
What I'm currently reading: A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher is going well. Though I'm not much of a horror person, the main character (a somewhat doofy scientist) is enough to blunt the creepiness for me (though not totally! I need to stop reading this late at night!). I also fell to peer pressure and borrowed Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. I read like 3/4 of the first chapter and my enjoyment might depend on how the author decides to handle his characters. I disliked the first character introduced, but that might be the point, and I get the sense she's going to get some comeuppance real fast.
What I'll read next: Children of Time is humongous, so that might be my plan for a good while. But, I also would like to read one of my physical books on my to-read pile (I know, I keep saying this, but I keep being a slave to whatever keeps coming up on Libby), and Fool's Run by Patricia McKillip has been sitting on my side table for a good while. So, might be a continued trend of sci-fi for me for a bit.
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What I'm currently reading: A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher is going well. Though I'm not much of a horror person, the main character (a somewhat doofy scientist) is enough to blunt the creepiness for me (though not totally! I need to stop reading this late at night!). I also fell to peer pressure and borrowed Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. I read like 3/4 of the first chapter and my enjoyment might depend on how the author decides to handle his characters. I disliked the first character introduced, but that might be the point, and I get the sense she's going to get some comeuppance real fast.
What I'll read next: Children of Time is humongous, so that might be my plan for a good while. But, I also would like to read one of my physical books on my to-read pile (I know, I keep saying this, but I keep being a slave to whatever keeps coming up on Libby), and Fool's Run by Patricia McKillip has been sitting on my side table for a good while. So, might be a continued trend of sci-fi for me for a bit.