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[owlectomy]

Someday I will rail against US Air and the city of Philadelphia. Not today.

Books read on the plane/in the early morning hours when I had little to do:

Hammered by Elizabeth Bear was stunningly good, and not just because I've got a soft spot for Canadian heroines. Yes, okay, the French was kind of off in places. Really off in a place or two. But I don't care at all, not a bit, and if you know how pedantic I am that says a lot about how much I liked the book. Definite nods to cyberpunk, but what I loved was how fully realized the characters were, how much I genuinely liked them...I am glad that I won't have to wait more than a little for the sequel. To the point that I was desperately hunting the airport bookstores for it.

The Family Trade by Charles Stross. It's a pretty shiny idea, I'll admit that--the people who live on the Other Side are getting fabulously rich smuggling things between our side and their side--but everything about it felt adequate, perfunctory. Inadequately motivated romance (what else is new?). Didn't feel much depth in the characters. I liked it enough to finish it, but that's about it.

Comments

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I've been waffling on Hammered -- didn't know if it was my style or not. If you liked it this much, though, I'll definitely pick it up.

So looking forward to Blood & Iron and the other fairy books!

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd been waffling too--I only bought it because my mother thought we were going to the beach, and she said she'd buy me a book to read there. Because cyberpunk isn't really my thing, and gritty distopia is so not my thing. But it grabbed me.

Say, uh, I'm a total spaz, but do you still want to read my shapechanging-in-YA-lit paper?

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

YES! I didn't want to nag, in case you were feeling shy about it, but yes, yes please!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Hey!

Thank you!

(I didn't see this before.)