Reading and rereading
Jul. 2nd, 2005 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienThere's a fascinating discussion about Cherryh going on over in rasfc. I'm not one who finds her rather odd syntax offputting; at a sentence or paragraph level, I can follow her well enough, and I like distinctive voices. I don't always come out of the end of the book feeling I've entirely understood what was going on, but I often get that even with authors who write much more transparently.
Anyway, reading the discussion left me wanting to reread some of her books. Some of them -- the Foreigner series because I love it, and the Morgaine books because they were the first I came across -- I've read many times already. Others, like Cyteen that I finished one sleepless night in London when I'd been robbed on the way home, and Downbelow Station, I need to read again to see if I can make more sense of them now.
I reread Shirley last weekend, and today I picked up an old Pratchett to read on the bus on the way to the Mall. I'd almost forgotten how satisfying it can be to go back to a familiar world, to see the intricacies of the foreshadowing, to have time to savour allusions and puns.
I think it's time to declare Operation Backlog over. Yes, there are still thirty or so books on the list from previous years, but I don't care any more. I'll read what I feel like, when I feel like it, and just try not to let the acquisitions get out of hand again.
I'll probably make a start on Olympos this weekend, though.
Anyway, reading the discussion left me wanting to reread some of her books. Some of them -- the Foreigner series because I love it, and the Morgaine books because they were the first I came across -- I've read many times already. Others, like Cyteen that I finished one sleepless night in London when I'd been robbed on the way home, and Downbelow Station, I need to read again to see if I can make more sense of them now.
I reread Shirley last weekend, and today I picked up an old Pratchett to read on the bus on the way to the Mall. I'd almost forgotten how satisfying it can be to go back to a familiar world, to see the intricacies of the foreshadowing, to have time to savour allusions and puns.
I think it's time to declare Operation Backlog over. Yes, there are still thirty or so books on the list from previous years, but I don't care any more. I'll read what I feel like, when I feel like it, and just try not to let the acquisitions get out of hand again.
I'll probably make a start on Olympos this weekend, though.
