What I am reading Wednesday

[paranoidangel]

What I Just Finished Reading
Little Wonder by Sasha Abramsky. This is all about Lottie Dod, who won Wimbledon multiple times as a teenager in the late 19th century. And then, because it was boring beating everyone all the time, went on to win in hockey and golf tournaments, followed by an Olympic medal in archery. And that wasn't just other women she was beating at tennis, it was the men too. Who had a big advantage in being able to wear clothes that didn't restrict their movement. I spent the book wondering if she'd been playing a century later it would have been different being able to play people from all over the world. But then in the 1920s she was critical of the players who did nothing but tennis.

That's What She Said by Eleanor Pilcher. I spent half of this book worrying about where it was going. There's two main characters, one of whom is demisexual and she wants to have sex and explores around it. And her best friend is off having one-night stands all over the place. It ended up really being more about their friendship and I really enjoyed it.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells. just-ann-now has been talking about the Murderbot series for ages. I thought it sounded interesting, but never got round to looking for it. I finally reserved the first book at the library. And then had to wait months for it to be my turn to borrow it. I enjoyed it, but given the only thing I knew about it was the name Murderbot, it wasn't at all what I expected.

What I'm Currently Reading
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna. This is a really interesting depiction of witches in modern society. I am really enjoying it, but it was clear really early on that the main character was going to end up with another one, which is dull just waiting for them to get round to it.

What I'm Reading Next
I've reserved the second Murderbot book (which weirdly has no queue - did everyone else stop at the first book?) and the last Elly Griffiths Ruth series book at the library.

Mirrored from my blog.

Comments

[just_ann_now]

Yay Murderbot! I'm glad you enjoyed it. (The second one is excellent too - I think it's my favorite of the novellas.)

[liadt]

The Lottie Dod book sounds interesting!

I'm glad the book that could have gone badly wrong, didn't, always a relief!

Sounds lots of good reading going on.

[evil_plotbunny]

There are 7-8 books in the Murderbot series now, so odds are that most of the people interested in book 2 have read it already. I find that there are more often queues on the most recent books in series, at least at my library.

[paranoidangel]

so odds are that most of the people interested in book 2 have read it already

But then the queue for book 1 was quite long, so I was expecting those people to go on to book 2.

[evil_plotbunny]

Okay, that's very odd indeed. Unless they decided to buy a set/omnibus.