Reading Wednesday
Jun. 7th, 2023 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidFinished: Some zines. Nothing great, just following up with one author to see her other zines.
Currently Reading:
- Slowly continuing Rachel A. Rosen's Cascade. I'm laughing a lot. There was one paragraph I read where I was like, "oh, that's what Peter Watts is talking about in his blurb..." (re: author's "tricks")
- Re-reading the previous chapter of Pirate Utopias, because I didn't know was what when I picked it up again; the main reason I'm re-reading the book is to commit the pirate history of Salé (the semi-piratical/free city that would eventually grow to become Rabat) to memory this time, which is the topic of this chapter. There are lots of books/podcasts/TV about Caribbean piracy but fewer about piracy elsewhere. (The Pirate History podcast does a phenomenal job of documenting Mediterranean piracy before and during the Golden Age. There's also a book on Jewish Pirates that talks about that too, I forget its title, but there aren't many, so.) (I just remembered that Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates, and I wonder if someone has written good ancient pirate history or fiction...)
One book thing I forgot to mention about my trip to Montréal: I got to meet Erica Lagalisse!!!! They go by Evan in person. They gave a workshop that I couldn't attend, which kind of sucks. At the very end of the fair, I saw them a few meters away but I suddenly got fairly shy, so I was hesitating to introduce myself. Thankfully a child who was part of their entourage came to my table, saw that I was selling their book, and brought Lagalisse to my table, where they promptly recalled a conversation we had on Twitter over a year ago. They sold me a copy of the French translation of their book, which I will gift to a friend I should never give gifts to ever again (he basically stole $1500 from me) but I know it's going to be right in his wheelhouse. Anyway we had a good chat so I was chuffed.
Currently Reading:
- Slowly continuing Rachel A. Rosen's Cascade. I'm laughing a lot. There was one paragraph I read where I was like, "oh, that's what Peter Watts is talking about in his blurb..." (re: author's "tricks")
- Re-reading the previous chapter of Pirate Utopias, because I didn't know was what when I picked it up again; the main reason I'm re-reading the book is to commit the pirate history of Salé (the semi-piratical/free city that would eventually grow to become Rabat) to memory this time, which is the topic of this chapter. There are lots of books/podcasts/TV about Caribbean piracy but fewer about piracy elsewhere. (The Pirate History podcast does a phenomenal job of documenting Mediterranean piracy before and during the Golden Age. There's also a book on Jewish Pirates that talks about that too, I forget its title, but there aren't many, so.) (I just remembered that Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates, and I wonder if someone has written good ancient pirate history or fiction...)
One book thing I forgot to mention about my trip to Montréal: I got to meet Erica Lagalisse!!!! They go by Evan in person. They gave a workshop that I couldn't attend, which kind of sucks. At the very end of the fair, I saw them a few meters away but I suddenly got fairly shy, so I was hesitating to introduce myself. Thankfully a child who was part of their entourage came to my table, saw that I was selling their book, and brought Lagalisse to my table, where they promptly recalled a conversation we had on Twitter over a year ago. They sold me a copy of the French translation of their book, which I will gift to a friend I should never give gifts to ever again (he basically stole $1500 from me) but I know it's going to be right in his wheelhouse. Anyway we had a good chat so I was chuffed.