No update on my side, still reading same book as last week:
- The Better Part of Valour by Tanya Huff. Book 2 of Confederation series. I made some progress though and am near the finish.
What about all of you? Which books have you been reading or listening lately?
I just finished The Heavens by Sandra Newman. I’m not quite sure what to make of it.
It’s about a woman who lives in turn of the century New York (meaning 2000-ish. God I’m old), but when she sleeps she is transported, possibly literally into the life of Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady.”
She has a distinct and poetic voice and the book is a sad and quiet and beautiful meditation on greatness and madness and love and hope and meaning.
It’s also meandering and depressing and the 16th century stuff feels well researched but superficial, and some of the choices later in the book feel rushed and like she felt they had to be there but they don’t exactly fit the tone.
Gonna have to digest this one for a bit, which I guess means it challenged me and that’s a good thing.
Does this book require any prior knowledge of Dark Lady?