What Am I Reading Wednesday - (Now actually on Wednesday) October 28

What I Just Finished Reading This Week
I didn't finish any books this week, due to a combination of work, domestic woes, jigsaw puzzles, and the need to finish streaming several Great Courses before my monthly credits expired.


What I Am Currently Reading

Lady of Magick – Sylvia Izzo Hunter
At the start of the novel, our heroes Sophie and Gray decamp from Oxford’s Merlin College of Magic to Din Edin in the independent kingdom of Alba. The change of pace is fun, and Hunter does a good job of subtly portraying their culture shock. But while the plot looks set to center on possible cracks in the protagonists' marriage and a mysterious famine, it's the worldbuilding that intrigues me most. Why is Gàidhlig Dun Edin’s primary language, instead of (or alongside) Scots or (since we're bending history anyway) Cumbric? Why is there a female M. Ní Sabháin among the Irish university lecturers, but the Alban women are all MacRurys, MacCrimmons, MacLachlans, MacSherrys, and so forth, particularly when Hunter makes it a point to have one of them say that married women don’t take their husbands’ names? Don't get me wrong: the story is really good. I just like the worldbuilding even more than the story, and I wouldn't actually mind long expository passages explaining the whys.

Naomi Novik – A Deadly Education
I believe I have identified the big reveal on page 18.

The Sisters Grimm – Menna van Praag
I have a fourth of the book left to go, and things are still dragging when the tension should be ratcheting up instead.

Run Me To Earth – Paul Yoon
Action has now moved from the Plain of Jars to France and Vientiane.


What I'm Reading Next

If I didn't finish reading any books this week, at least I didn't acquire any new ones, either.


これで以上です。