Shelly Bryant

Here’s what I was reading and viewing in August and September

Hits

• Starry Island (Fiona Sze-Lorrain, ed.)
• Zero History (William Gibson)
• Urchin (Lisa Heiserman Perkins)
• The Genie at Low Tide (Paul Bayall)
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Nancy Farmer)
• When the Gods are Silent (Jane Linskold)

Back issues of  Ploughshares and  Aoife’s Kiss

Misses

• none

Neither Hit Nor Miss

• Pompeii (movie)
• The Lost Prince (Julie Kagawa)
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T E Lawrence) – both hit and miss, since there were some interesting insights, but the coloniser’s clear sense of superiority is too insulting to overlook
• Brothers (Yu Hua) – both hit and miss, since the writing was good and much of the story was gripping, while other parts just came off as overboard; the real “miss” aspect, though, is the misogyny that is almost celebrated in the book

So how was August and September reading and viewing for you?

Posted on October 5, 2014 at 9:59 am in books, movies, review   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL