Reading Wednesday
May. 9th, 2018 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starspraySo apparently this is a meme (?) thing that people do on Wednesdays and it sounds like fun and I'm doing a lot more reading than...anything else, really, so:
I just finished rereading The Raven Boys by Maggie Stievfater. Steifvater? Stiefvater. It's the third time I've read it, and it's still excellent. There are sentient trees and dead Welsh kings and psychics and magic dreams and an actual raven. It's great. I also started rereading the next in the series, Dream Thieves.
I'm also reading The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones. I forget the train of thought behind it but I was messing around with worldbuilding for my novel and ended up deciding to read about the Wars of the Roses, and this is really good. It's interesting and easy to read, although everyone is named either Henry or Edward or Richard and that makes it a bit confusing, but that's not Jones' fault, that's the English nobility for having zero creativity when it comes to naming sons. Also: I had no idea that the Tudor family came out of the second marriage of Henry V's wife Catherine. Also also: I didn't realize how big a role mental illness played in the whole thing where Henry VI is completely useless as a monarch.
The third thing I am currently reading is The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, which I started reading like eight thousand years ago but it's super long and then a bunch of other people wanted it from the library so I had to keep returning it, but hopefully I'll finish it this time I have it out. It's a really interesting world, and the characters are neat, although I'm interested in some more than in others--the way it usually works when you have a book with multiple POVs. I think I know the direction in which Kaladin's story is going, as it seems pretty classic as far as fantasy tropes go (he is also currently my favorite--I have a fictional Type), but we'll see, since there's actually very little about this world that's really cliche.
I just finished rereading The Raven Boys by Maggie Stievfater. Steifvater? Stiefvater. It's the third time I've read it, and it's still excellent. There are sentient trees and dead Welsh kings and psychics and magic dreams and an actual raven. It's great. I also started rereading the next in the series, Dream Thieves.
I'm also reading The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones. I forget the train of thought behind it but I was messing around with worldbuilding for my novel and ended up deciding to read about the Wars of the Roses, and this is really good. It's interesting and easy to read, although everyone is named either Henry or Edward or Richard and that makes it a bit confusing, but that's not Jones' fault, that's the English nobility for having zero creativity when it comes to naming sons. Also: I had no idea that the Tudor family came out of the second marriage of Henry V's wife Catherine. Also also: I didn't realize how big a role mental illness played in the whole thing where Henry VI is completely useless as a monarch.
The third thing I am currently reading is The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, which I started reading like eight thousand years ago but it's super long and then a bunch of other people wanted it from the library so I had to keep returning it, but hopefully I'll finish it this time I have it out. It's a really interesting world, and the characters are neat, although I'm interested in some more than in others--the way it usually works when you have a book with multiple POVs. I think I know the direction in which Kaladin's story is going, as it seems pretty classic as far as fantasy tropes go (he is also currently my favorite--I have a fictional Type), but we'll see, since there's actually very little about this world that's really cliche.
