Catching up

Must admit, having an SO certainly has impacted on my reading. Or has it been my newly formed Muti habit? ;) But I've done a bit of catching up the last few weeks, but nowhere near my single-days norm. What with the heatwave of the past three weeks in Jozi, I've been skipping the dancing group classes and socials on Wednesdays and Fridays quite a bit.

Now to remember the order...

Lessee, 17 Feb was an SFSA meet, with a really cool speaker, Pippa Tshbalala nee Stalker, who spoke on the game art. Think along the lines of art movies. Art games.

Anyway, I proceeded to make off with Justina Robson's Making It Real and Tricia Sullivan's Double Vision. A quick search on Google tells me that I've not read any other Robson books; I'm just confused by the style of cover art. :) Some pretty decent sci-fi, even if the Robson is also fantasy. Sullivan is definitely heavier going and more thought-provoking.

I have read Sullivan before: Lethe and maybe Dreaming in Smoke. This is the whole point of starting this blog - to keep a record!

In the past few days, I've raced through Andre Norton's The Hands of Lyr, Charles de Lint's The Harp of the Grey Rose, Christopher Stasheff's Her Majesty's Wizard and am now in the middle of Wisdom of the Fox, by Harry Turtledove, all of which I've borrowed from Grant. I think I can safely categorise them as adolescent sword and sorcery, except perhaps for Turtledove (slightly more adult sword and sorcery). With respect to the Stasheff, I almost felt as if I were reading a Piers Anthony Xanth novel.