reading update
Feb. 9th, 2006 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclecticFor the book club, read A Confederacy of Dunces, which was a little difficult to get started with, but fairly entertaining overall. Written in the 1960's, set in New Orleans, with an anti-protagonist and a cast of extremely bizarre characters. Oh, and a reasonably happy ending.
After that (just finished) The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, which I absolutely postively loved. I've read a whole slew of her space-opera-meets-fox-hunting novels, which are engaging and frothy, but this was just fantastic. The main character is an autistic man, who may be coerced into (or if not coerced, must decide whether to volunteer for) a treatment that will possibly cure his autism, but at the cost of changing his self. The author apparently has an autistic child, and does a really good job of depicting the differences in perception.
I feel like I might be missing one, but perhaps not... It has only been 3 weeks since my last update, after all. Hmm.
After that (just finished) The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, which I absolutely postively loved. I've read a whole slew of her space-opera-meets-fox-hunting novels, which are engaging and frothy, but this was just fantastic. The main character is an autistic man, who may be coerced into (or if not coerced, must decide whether to volunteer for) a treatment that will possibly cure his autism, but at the cost of changing his self. The author apparently has an autistic child, and does a really good job of depicting the differences in perception.
I feel like I might be missing one, but perhaps not... It has only been 3 weeks since my last update, after all. Hmm.