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What I Just Finished Reading This Week
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Oh, I loved this book. It was transporting from start to finish and deeply satisfying. To me, Clarke’s House is of a piece with Lev Grossman’s Netherlands, Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, or Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, but she makes it feel entirely fresh and vital. It's imagery is Tarot imagery (even if none of its images are found in any Tarot deck), and I reacted to it similarly, with an sense of immediate identification and in a way that lit up parts of my brain speech doesn’t activate.
I imagine most people with an interest in this novel are already familiar with the broad strokes of the story, so I won’t rehash them here. But I’m intrigued by how different my experience of the book was from many other readers’. ( Cut for spoilers. ) Like the House itself, there is just so much to this book, and I will be exploring its rooms and levels for a long time to come.
What I Am Currently Reading
The King In Yellow – Robert Chambers
I decided to read some classic horror in the run-up to Halloween.
The Broken Raven – Joseph Elliott
I loved The Good Hawk and am glad to embark on further adventures with its cast.
Angel Maze – Garth Nix
The first chapter was good, but a little grimmer reading than I was interested in pursuing this week.
Naomi Novik – A Deadly Education
I’ve read the first chapter and liked it enough that I put the book down until this weekend when I can do an uninterrupted read.
The Sisters Grimm – Menna van Praag
Alas, this started dragging at the halfway point.
The Bass Rock – Evie Wyld
I had not touched this book before cracking it open on Monday. Reading the first chapter created the most sustained experience of déjà vu I’ve experienced in my life, to the point where I had to put the thing down and read something else.
Run Me To Earth – Paul Yoon
So far, this is spare, well written, and uncomfortable reading.
What I'm Reading Next
Aside from the Wyld, I picked up SO MANY BOOKS this week - Laure Eve’s The Curses, P. Djeli Clark’s The Haunting of Tram Car 015, and All The Rosemary Sutcliff: Blood Feud, The Eagle of the Ninth, Frontier Wolf, Knight's Fee, Outcast, The Silver Branch, Sword at Sunset, and Warrior Scarlet.
これで以上です。
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Oh, I loved this book. It was transporting from start to finish and deeply satisfying. To me, Clarke’s House is of a piece with Lev Grossman’s Netherlands, Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, or Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, but she makes it feel entirely fresh and vital. It's imagery is Tarot imagery (even if none of its images are found in any Tarot deck), and I reacted to it similarly, with an sense of immediate identification and in a way that lit up parts of my brain speech doesn’t activate.
I imagine most people with an interest in this novel are already familiar with the broad strokes of the story, so I won’t rehash them here. But I’m intrigued by how different my experience of the book was from many other readers’. ( Cut for spoilers. ) Like the House itself, there is just so much to this book, and I will be exploring its rooms and levels for a long time to come.
What I Am Currently Reading
The King In Yellow – Robert Chambers
I decided to read some classic horror in the run-up to Halloween.
The Broken Raven – Joseph Elliott
I loved The Good Hawk and am glad to embark on further adventures with its cast.
Angel Maze – Garth Nix
The first chapter was good, but a little grimmer reading than I was interested in pursuing this week.
Naomi Novik – A Deadly Education
I’ve read the first chapter and liked it enough that I put the book down until this weekend when I can do an uninterrupted read.
The Sisters Grimm – Menna van Praag
Alas, this started dragging at the halfway point.
The Bass Rock – Evie Wyld
I had not touched this book before cracking it open on Monday. Reading the first chapter created the most sustained experience of déjà vu I’ve experienced in my life, to the point where I had to put the thing down and read something else.
Run Me To Earth – Paul Yoon
So far, this is spare, well written, and uncomfortable reading.
What I'm Reading Next
Aside from the Wyld, I picked up SO MANY BOOKS this week - Laure Eve’s The Curses, P. Djeli Clark’s The Haunting of Tram Car 015, and All The Rosemary Sutcliff: Blood Feud, The Eagle of the Ninth, Frontier Wolf, Knight's Fee, Outcast, The Silver Branch, Sword at Sunset, and Warrior Scarlet.
これで以上です。
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