Currently Reading!

I know, I've been slack with posting.

I've been vlogging a bit more lately which is good, but neglecting my blog, my stitching and my reading.

As you can see the whole challenge I set myself for reading a book day didn't last long.

I hit a bit of a reading slump and then had a bunch of life stuff pop up.

I'm currently reading two books actively.

Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer

I picked this up at my library thinking it was a steampunk style book, I've been super curious about steampunk fiction.

This is a book written as if the author was a persona of a Kurt Vonnegut character.

It's really fast paced and doesn't have a set timeline as such.

It does jump around, but not in a way that makes it hard to follow.

It follows an Earth man who has decided to explore space to find the answers to his questions. He's kind of forced off the Earth, but I'll leave that to you to read why :p

It's very tongue in cheek, with lots of aliens. And alien sex organs.

The character is kind of like the David Attenborough of aliens and alien society/sex.

Red Sapphire (The Sita Chronicles #1) by Ashley Mayers 

This is the other book I am reading at the moment.

This was sent to me for review by the author, which always makes me smile and feel good when people want me to read something they worked hard on.

This is a fantasy set in and around India and it's mythology.

It takes inspiration from mythology but does not claim to be accurate, which is why I feel it's fantasy and not a mythological fiction type book.

So far I am really enjoying it. I'm not super far into it, but the 150 pages or so I have read have been great.

Bookstand #4

More reading!

I finished two books today. One I had been reading for a couple of days, one I had picked up planning to read a few pages, but found I couldn't put it down!

This has been a super busy week, with my last week of classes comes the last 8 assessments all being due in the same week!
And we have a public holiday here in Australia for Monday, so that's one less day to get everything handed in.

On top of that, house hunting.
Ugh. I absolutely loath house hunting.
It's so hard to find a good place, with no stairs, 2 bedrooms and a garage that's in our price range.

But onwards to the bookish stuff!

Finished Reading

The Univited - Liz Jenson

Such a creepy idea is addressed in this. 

Though my only  gripe with this book was the lack of solid answers.

I still need to know what was happening.

The narrator was very interesting, and had some interesting quirks.

None of the Above - I. W. Gregorio

Such a sweet book, but also heartbreaking.

This book is about a teenage girl who find's out she has AIS making her intersex.

The book is about her journey through acceptance and the hurtful things that the uniformed say and so.

It has a positive ending, one that promotes normalcy, which I thought was fantastic.

I've had my own fights with gender and sexuality, and a large chunk of my life I have feared people finding out and treating me differently. 

That's happening, though for other reasons (wheelchairs are just mobility aids, seriously).

But I loved how throughout this, the girl has voices and people who treat her the same, because at the end of the day she is. 

She is a girl.

Currently Reading

The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss

Still plugging away :p