It's Monday! What are you reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. For this meme, bloggers post what they finished last week, what they're currently reading, and what they plan to start this week.
My comments are not meant to be recaps of the story lines as I include a link to Goodreads for their synopsis of the book. I am merely stating how I felt about the book without giving any spoilers.
My 2013 reading list can be found here.
My reading has become very slow in the past few weeks, I'm not sure what is slowing me down. Perhaps it is the selection of books I have placed on hold at the library. Maybe I need to look at some more interesting topics.
FINISHED THIS WEEK:
Synopsis here.
I am a die-hard Peter Robinson, his character DCI Banks is like an old friend that you can sit and get caught up with. But this time around I was a little bored with our get-together.
This just seemed to move at such a slow pace that I kept saying let's get on with it!!
STARTED THIS WEEK:
China Miéville doesn't follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.
When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties—to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
My reading has become very slow in the past few weeks, I'm not sure what is slowing me down. Perhaps it is the selection of books I have placed on hold at the library. Maybe I need to look at some more interesting topics.
FINISHED THIS WEEK:
Synopsis here.
I am a die-hard Peter Robinson, his character DCI Banks is like an old friend that you can sit and get caught up with. But this time around I was a little bored with our get-together.
This just seemed to move at such a slow pace that I kept saying let's get on with it!!
STARTED THIS WEEK:
China Miéville doesn't follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war.
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.
When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties—to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.
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