Wednesday reading — dragons and djinni

What I've been reading

I read Blood of Tyrants, the penultimate Temeraire book. The last couple books in the series have felt a bit like they were just marking time and filling pages, whereas I felt like a book's worth of things actually happened in this book, even with the not-strictly-necessary amnesia subplot. ( Oh, the amnesia subplot! )

( And also the rest of the book. )

Also, isn't anyone going to write the Les Misérables crossover where, I dunno, Jean Valjean is a dragon or something?

I read The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, which probably includes the author of at least one of your favorite books as a kid. You could read it if you still are a kid, but you don't have to be.

I read The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories and I loved it, even if it was unnecessarily typeset with wide margins and overgenerous linespacing to make it look longer than it is and the two stories reprinted from Possession are better where they were originally, in context.

What I'm reading next

Dunno.