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What I Just Finished
Tears of Pearl and Dangerous To Know, both by Tasha Alexander, both part of the Lady Emily Ashton series. There are still two more in the series, but I think I can only manage two Lady Emilys at a time, before I want to throttle her. Not an especially glowing recommendation, but I do keep returning to the series. I'm very disappointed that Colin is not living up to his delightfully bad-ass reputation (when the master thief is more fun than the heroic, Victorian James Bond character who managed to marry the heroine on a Greek island, you have a problem.)
On the non-fiction side was Happy Money, which was a quick, fairly interesting read that did not annoy me with anecdotes when I was looking for data but also did not bore me to tears, either. I keep seeing reviews that the authors aren't saying anything new, and no, they're not, but they're saying things that are backed by research and given how many people still stumble and fall on the more-money-solves-everything idea, possibly it's something that still needs to be said.
What I'm Reading Now
Mary Shelley, Miranda Seymour --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ariadnes_string pointed me to this after I'd been babbling about Hideous Love and it is exactly what I wanted: long and detailed and not fading to black after Percy died and left Mary to raise their son and care for her family.
Saga Vol 1, Brian K Vaughn/Fiona Staples, graphic novel -- BKV is solid and right up my alley as a graphic novelist, but Fiona Staples artwork is *awesome*.
Cookbooks this week include Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table, which, guh; a second time around on Slow Cooker Revolution, which works for not so much for days when I leave the house for 10 hours but more for days when I'm around but not able to pay attention to what's going on in the kitchen once things get started cooking; and Gluten-Free Girl Everyday, not because we're GF, but because there are some amazing-looking recipes.
What I'm Reading Next
It's going to take me a while to get through Mary Shelley, so that's probably it.
Tears of Pearl and Dangerous To Know, both by Tasha Alexander, both part of the Lady Emily Ashton series. There are still two more in the series, but I think I can only manage two Lady Emilys at a time, before I want to throttle her. Not an especially glowing recommendation, but I do keep returning to the series. I'm very disappointed that Colin is not living up to his delightfully bad-ass reputation (when the master thief is more fun than the heroic, Victorian James Bond character who managed to marry the heroine on a Greek island, you have a problem.)
On the non-fiction side was Happy Money, which was a quick, fairly interesting read that did not annoy me with anecdotes when I was looking for data but also did not bore me to tears, either. I keep seeing reviews that the authors aren't saying anything new, and no, they're not, but they're saying things that are backed by research and given how many people still stumble and fall on the more-money-solves-everything idea, possibly it's something that still needs to be said.
What I'm Reading Now
Mary Shelley, Miranda Seymour --
ariadnes_string pointed me to this after I'd been babbling about Hideous Love and it is exactly what I wanted: long and detailed and not fading to black after Percy died and left Mary to raise their son and care for her family. Saga Vol 1, Brian K Vaughn/Fiona Staples, graphic novel -- BKV is solid and right up my alley as a graphic novelist, but Fiona Staples artwork is *awesome*.
Cookbooks this week include Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table, which, guh; a second time around on Slow Cooker Revolution, which works for not so much for days when I leave the house for 10 hours but more for days when I'm around but not able to pay attention to what's going on in the kitchen once things get started cooking; and Gluten-Free Girl Everyday, not because we're GF, but because there are some amazing-looking recipes.
What I'm Reading Next
It's going to take me a while to get through Mary Shelley, so that's probably it.
