I finished Nona the ninth, which was a bit longer than I'd realised -- the perils of borrowing ebooks from the library! I got about halfway through Don't Bite the Sun and realised I was overly irritable about the general setting. And I've managed about half of Ocean's Echo, which I like well enough, but it is too similar to Everina Maxwell's previous novel, while not being related except in setting. There are a couple of tropes that I struggle with which are dominant here*.
Sadly, I'd managed to pick a set of books that were similar enough in the amount stressed the characters are, so instead of making more progress on my fiction picks, I picked up a non-fiction book about presenting data.
* possibly spoilery complaint I made to partner: I'm on page 96 and two of the characters have only started talking to each other, rather than talking past each other).
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I finished Nona the ninth, which was a bit longer than I'd realised -- the perils of borrowing ebooks from the library! I got about halfway through Don't Bite the Sun and realised I was overly irritable about the general setting. And I've managed about half of Ocean's Echo, which I like well enough, but it is too similar to Everina Maxwell's previous novel, while not being related except in setting. There are a couple of tropes that I struggle with which are dominant here*.
Sadly, I'd managed to pick a set of books that were similar enough in the amount stressed the characters are, so instead of making more progress on my fiction picks, I picked up a non-fiction book about presenting data.
* possibly spoilery complaint I made to partner: I'm on page 96 and two of the characters have only started talking to each other, rather than talking past each other).