Just finished the book Children of time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What a strange but entertaining novel. I was entertained enough that I purchased the follow up and am now three chapters deep. I haven’t found a new author that I like in a while. I’m not on the fence so much, as not entirely sold yet. It may sound snobbish, but I like to read two halfway decent books by the same author in the same series before I add them to my roster of followed authors. Because it can take some of them a year, or three, or even more to put out a new book, it’s good to follow several authors so that you can read new stuff, or at least new to you stuff, fairly often. I hate when I get all caught up on new book purchases and then have to wait months for a new release. Oh! What a problem to have, I know, I know.
Once I get through the second book: Children of ruin, I plan to read The Grapes of Wrath. Which is an American classic, so not new, but is new to me as I never read it. We did Margaret Atwood and Sir Oliver Mowat, and George Orwell among others, in Canada. Even Of Mice and Men if I recall correctly. I read a bunch of ancient classics in grade twelve english, and OAC English lit. I kind of want to read Moby Dick too. But we’ll have to see about that. I want to read Crime and Punishment, but I fear that the length, and depressive material may not suit me much. Who knows, maybe it’s the classic lit I’ve been waiting for. I’m far more interested in slotting in older classics inbetween the science fiction and fantasy novels that I usually read, the older I get. Not for a fear of having missed out, but those are considered classics for a reason, must be something to them for their continued longevity.
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