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cimoreneAfter I finished Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete, I wanted to read something else in between reading the third book.
I tried a mystery set in ancient Rome with a female protagonist, but although the writing wasn't bad, it just wasn't holding my interest after a few chapters and I ended up trying to find fanfiction to read instead. I went poking back through my own old bookmarks and reread some Garak/Bashir, which was able to hold my interest, only I had fewer bookmarks than I thought, so I tried searching AO3's most bookmarked works to find more of the stuff I remembered, only to find the landscape had changed a lot. I DID find some more things I remembered, but I'm pretty sure I still haven't found the ones I was vaguely thinking of but I gave up after opening a bunch of bad ones in a row. Then I started going back through my own Good Omens bookmarks. And unusually for me in recent years, the Good Omens bookmarks are almost entirely annotated, so I'm fully confident in my conclusion that past me found a much wider variety of ideas and executions interesting and enjoyable than I presently do. I also just tried some random old bookmarks out, but I haven't really hit on anything inspiring yet.
Then I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I can't believe it's been out two years... time has really melted the last few years, huh? Obviously, it was great. Unfortunately, then I finished it and had to go back to reading other stuff. It was gripping and wonderful while in the midst of it, but I think from the outside - in retrospect - it doesn't connect to the rest of my interests as much as Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
I guess I need to dig out the notebook with the list of books to read.
I tried a mystery set in ancient Rome with a female protagonist, but although the writing wasn't bad, it just wasn't holding my interest after a few chapters and I ended up trying to find fanfiction to read instead. I went poking back through my own old bookmarks and reread some Garak/Bashir, which was able to hold my interest, only I had fewer bookmarks than I thought, so I tried searching AO3's most bookmarked works to find more of the stuff I remembered, only to find the landscape had changed a lot. I DID find some more things I remembered, but I'm pretty sure I still haven't found the ones I was vaguely thinking of but I gave up after opening a bunch of bad ones in a row. Then I started going back through my own Good Omens bookmarks. And unusually for me in recent years, the Good Omens bookmarks are almost entirely annotated, so I'm fully confident in my conclusion that past me found a much wider variety of ideas and executions interesting and enjoyable than I presently do. I also just tried some random old bookmarks out, but I haven't really hit on anything inspiring yet.
Then I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. I can't believe it's been out two years... time has really melted the last few years, huh? Obviously, it was great. Unfortunately, then I finished it and had to go back to reading other stuff. It was gripping and wonderful while in the midst of it, but I think from the outside - in retrospect - it doesn't connect to the rest of my interests as much as Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
I guess I need to dig out the notebook with the list of books to read.
