SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola by Giovanni Boccaccio
Finished this (just Affrican and Mensola). It got a bit easier for me to understand it by the end.
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I don't like doing reviews, so I'm just sticking to comments. Really like how bookwyrm lets you do this. I like to make lists and play a bunch of self-designed reading games - nearly everything I read is off some queued list or part of a game. It helps with not being able to pick what to read because I always have a limited number of choices. I'm focusing on reading books by women for the time being.
Current games/lists:
Classics. Sub-categories: (1) mid-18th c, (2) Corvey Women Writers, (3) gothic fiction, (4) Library of Medieval Women, (5) The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, and (6) earlier classics.
New Fiction. Sub-categories: (1) uncommon Library of Congress categories, (2) translated books, and (3) Graywolf Press.
Moderate to Heavy Reading. Sub-categories: (1) authors I've read before, (2) books I own, (3) international TBR list #1, (4) international TBR list #2, and (5) stuff I put on hold or meant to get back to and never did.
Light Reading. Sub-categories: (1) classic SFF, (2) authors I've read before, (3) 20th c gothic, and (4) books I own.
Influences on Games 1-3.
NF related to select books in Games 1-3.
Started series.
The import I tried way back didn't work - both 'read' and 'to read' are books I've read and I'm missing most of what I tried to add. 'Finish' dates from 2022 are false. Some of the books are the wrong ones. 'Currently-reading' should be correct.
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SilenceEtchedOnAWall started reading Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola by Giovanni Boccaccio
I'm just reading Affrican and Mensola and not in this edition - I found an earlier printing online.
This is a very challenging read for me even though it's so short. The language isn't that bad and I'm used to the long s enough that I no longer see it, but this also has u=v and i=j, is in blackletter and has the r rotunda.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall started reading The Coming of the Terrans by Leigh Brackett
When earthmen came to Mars they found a world of dead sea-bottoms, lost civilizations, and …
Have this one in audiobook format.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall started reading The Halfling by Leigh Brackett
Anthology #2
SilenceEtchedOnAWall started reading The Best of Leigh Brackett by Leigh Brackett
I've been reading Brackett's Solar System series by rough pub order but there isn't a single anthology that has all the stories, so had to work out a way that was least overlapping. Gonna read this and 2 other anthologies simultaneously.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading "M" Is for Malice by Sue Grafton
Third of these things I've listened to in the last month - on a kick. This one was more enjoyable than the last one.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading Conquered by Naomi Mitchison
A retelling of the Gallic Wars with multiple POVs - most frequently a young man from Brittany.
Doesn't seem to have aged that badly but I'm not familiar with Roman history, so I can't evaluate it on that level. There's kindness and empathy for other people in it.
It has a map. I needed the map.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight …
Ick this was a trial - what an unpleasant POV to follow for an entire book. Anyway, read and done. I was going to read the sequels but I think I don't hate myself that much.
A lot of people seem to have read this a child - seems like a rather unkind thing to make a child read. This and Gulliver's Travels both.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading The recess, or, A tale of other times by Sophia Lee (Eighteenth-century novels by women)
Was a bit bored with this by the end, not as entertaining as some others.
Interesting as a historical document.
"L" Is for Lawless is the 12th novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery …
Not one of my favorites in this series - I've spent a decent amount of my life being stressed out in airports and there's a lot of airport in this one.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading K Is for Killer by Sue Grafton
These are dated but nicely plotted - I hate it when the 'suspect 1 interview' -> 'suspect 2 interview' -> 'suspect 3 interview' -> 'dramatic mystery solving encounter' plot outline is too transparent. These do not do that.
There's some 'meaningful quote' passages I think should have been edited out but it isn't intrusive.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall started reading Epic World by Pamela Lothspeich
This one, contrasting it with the one I just DNF'd, is a better choice.
I'm playing a NF reading game - trying to find books on Gilgamesh. This one has a chapter on Gilgamesh, decided that's good enough.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall stopped reading Gilgamesh by Louise M. Pryke
DNF'ing this nonfiction book about Gilgamesh.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall commented on The recess, or, A tale of other times by Sophia Lee (Eighteenth-century novels by women)
Onto Vol 2/3, not as entertaining as I'd hoped but still not bad.
Expected this to have letters from both Ellinor and Matilda, but we're still on Matilda. Maybe it switches at the halfway point.
SilenceEtchedOnAWall finished reading Lost lands of Witch World by Andre Norton (duplicate)
I'm not sure how much of this series I want to read - the intended audience seems young, lots of people in reviews talking about how they loved Norton as a pre-teen. I think children's imaginations are better at filling in missing details, so Norton's abruptness'd work in its favor, there.
Four from the Witch World has a CJ Cherryh story but it's pretty far back in the series.