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What are you reading the week of May 5, 2013? (Original Post) DUgosh May 2013 OP
_The Prophet of Yonwood_ by Jeanne Duprau getting old in mke May 2013 #1
Today Hula Popper May 2013 #2
The Mongoliad, by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and others pscot May 2013 #3
Embassytown Mz Pip May 2013 #4
Shit! Didn't see this. Went and started a whole thread of my own. nomorenomore08 May 2013 #5
Look for DUGosh's thread every week. Curmudgeoness Jun 2013 #6

getting old in mke

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1. _The Prophet of Yonwood_ by Jeanne Duprau
Sun May 5, 2013, 09:35 AM
May 2013

YA prequel to the City of Ember books. Reading for series completeness. You guys ever find yourselves doing that?

Listening: _Finity's End_ by CJ Cherryh. With this one, I'll have visited (or revisited) all the Company Wars books during the last year or so. Her world (well, universe--not a lot takes place on worlds) building seems as natural as it did twenty years ago. That is, when she gets into exposition somehow, everything seems "but of course that's how things are." And her way of using internal monologue to drop that exposition in seems to be mostly "well, I know x, but how does that apply to y?" where x is the exposition and y is a legitimate plot point and that doesn't ever get in the way, at least for me.

pscot

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3. The Mongoliad, by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and others
Mon May 6, 2013, 09:04 PM
May 2013

A project oriented approach to the novel. Video games are produced this way. Stephensons approach is to tell 2, 3, 4 stories at once, like adding layers to an onion. I'm enjoying it. Two more volumes to go.

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