books! (the meme)
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thanateapparently it is World Book Day, prompting this meme via jazzfish
The book (ha) I'm reading:
*Woodlands-Oliver Rackham
*Throne of the Crescent Moon-Saladin Ahmed
*Steering the Craft-Usrula Le Guin
*All Men of Genius- Lev AC Rosen (though I may be about to give up on this-- the idea seems worthy but I just haven't been caught by it yet)
*The Chesapeake Watershead-Ned Tillman (a "thanks for volunteering" gift from the aquarium's restoration planting team)
*The Medieval Garden-Sylvia Landsberg
*The Witch, the Weaver, and the Wood (last round of revising for now, I hope)
*and some other stuff if you count the things on the TBR shelf that I started over a decade ago & still mean to finish. I'm not sure you should bother, though.
Books I'm writing: depends how you define writing...
*The Witch, the Weaver & the Wood, mostly past the writing part
*Greatwood +2 as yet untitled sequels, in holding pattern until I'm done with WW&W (though I keep jotting down plot-continuation ideas as I revise)
*and one day I will come back to my half-finished sleeping beauty retelling, possibly with a better ability to write the bits I was having trouble with before.
The book I love the most:
Um... my latest two read-to-pieces books were Bujold's Memory & Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters, but I'm kind of coming down off them (ie, have read enough times I quote lines to myself) and haven't identified the next one yet.
The last book I received as a gift:
Flora of Maryland (from my mother, who finds Flora of West Virginia far more helpful to her)
The last book I gave as a gift:
Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair (X-mas gift to grauwulf)
The nearest book:
The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England- Barbara A Hanawalt (on the newly purchased TBR stack)
The book I want someone else to please write for me:
um... more awesome ones with my gimmicky pseudo-historical fixations instead of the pop-culture standbys? Maybe something comparing botanical roles & human uses of mid-atlantic US native plants to medieval European ones? (although I have not yet searched for what's presently available on such topics.)
Xposty from dreamwidth.
jazzfishThe book (ha) I'm reading:
*Woodlands-Oliver Rackham
*Throne of the Crescent Moon-Saladin Ahmed
*Steering the Craft-Usrula Le Guin
*All Men of Genius- Lev AC Rosen (though I may be about to give up on this-- the idea seems worthy but I just haven't been caught by it yet)
*The Chesapeake Watershead-Ned Tillman (a "thanks for volunteering" gift from the aquarium's restoration planting team)
*The Medieval Garden-Sylvia Landsberg
*The Witch, the Weaver, and the Wood (last round of revising for now, I hope)
*and some other stuff if you count the things on the TBR shelf that I started over a decade ago & still mean to finish. I'm not sure you should bother, though.
Books I'm writing: depends how you define writing...
*The Witch, the Weaver & the Wood, mostly past the writing part
*Greatwood +2 as yet untitled sequels, in holding pattern until I'm done with WW&W (though I keep jotting down plot-continuation ideas as I revise)
*and one day I will come back to my half-finished sleeping beauty retelling, possibly with a better ability to write the bits I was having trouble with before.
The book I love the most:
Um... my latest two read-to-pieces books were Bujold's Memory & Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters, but I'm kind of coming down off them (ie, have read enough times I quote lines to myself) and haven't identified the next one yet.
The last book I received as a gift:
Flora of Maryland (from my mother, who finds Flora of West Virginia far more helpful to her)
The last book I gave as a gift:
Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair (X-mas gift to grauwulf)
The nearest book:
The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England- Barbara A Hanawalt (on the newly purchased TBR stack)
The book I want someone else to please write for me:
um... more awesome ones with my gimmicky pseudo-historical fixations instead of the pop-culture standbys? Maybe something comparing botanical roles & human uses of mid-atlantic US native plants to medieval European ones? (although I have not yet searched for what's presently available on such topics.)
Xposty from dreamwidth.