Wednesday has been doing some reading

[redbird]

Based on a recommendation from rysmiel, in the past month or so I've read all of Lois Bujold's Penric novellas. They're fantasy stories, in the same world as her Chalion books; the first novella is "Penric's Demon." I mentioned to Rysmiel that I'd been reading Becky Chambers and enjoying the parts of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within that are about developing/deepening friendships, and rysmiel said that they had enjoyed the first two Penric and Desdemona novellas for similar reasons.

I don't seem to have posted about the Chambers, or about liking Naomi Kritzer's Chaos on Catnet, which shares the theme of friendship and found/chosen family, but this will have to do as a catch-up post.

Current reading: All the Devils are Here, a mystery novel by Louise Penny, on the kindle and phone, and slowly making my way through The Age of Wood in hardcover. I think mrissa recommended the book about wood. I saw the Penny in a post about the Agatha Awards on File 770, where Mike Glyer posts lists of the winners of many sff awards, and some genre-adjacent ones.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

What do you think of the Penric stories?

[mrissa]

Yes, back in December.

[otter]

I read more of what Naomi writes about local political candidates and issues than her fiction. She and I have several friends in common, and I've met her at gatherings a couple times.