![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Always a definite possibility of spoilers!
Wednesday, July 8
I'm not sure I'm enjoying The Expanse books as much as I did before. We'll see if that holds as we go along. It might just be that I'm really still in the early setup phase of this book, and once it really starts rolling I'll feel less jumpy. In the first book the setup stage was like one chapter. This one takes quite a bit longer.
Thursday
I'm now to the part of the book where they're traipsing around Ganymede and people keep getting shot (or presumably attacked by the protomolecule monster, but they don't know about that yet) and it's all pretty unpleasant. I'm looking forward to the part where they're back on the ship and at least shooting people from a distance.
Friday
OK, a day later, everybody - or well, Holden and Prax and the whole gang other than Alex - is still on Ganymede, but they're about to get off as soon as Alex gets there with the ship. And Bobbie and Avasarala have now hooked up (metaphorically speaking). So the pace is picking up, which is what I wanted. I don't know how much more reading I'll work in tonight, though. It's early-ish by my standards and I'm already sleepy.
Saturday
I was talking before about how I visualize characters. I just realized that I now hear what Bobbie says with TV-Bobbie's accent. And her hair, mostly! Before I saw TV-Bobbie, I was visualizing her wrong and I knew it - which is to say I was visualizing her as white, even though I knew intellectually she wasn't. It's still hard to tell the back of your brain that it's wrong. So thank goodness for TV-Bobbie, I guess.
Sunday
I finished Caliban's War just now and am starting Abaddon's Gate. All of these books are so good - there's not a dud among them - as I predicted, I whizzed through the second half of Caliban. That's pretty much the only criticism I can come up with for these books, is that there are a few sections like the beginning of Caliban that are slow to get going. (Well, ok, the very beginning is Bobbie's platoon getting killed, that isn't slow. It's after that that it lags.) But also they keep throwing all these new characters in and it takes you a while to get used to them - Bobbie & Prax & Avasarala in the last book, Bull and Clarissa in this one.
Wednesday, July 8
I'm not sure I'm enjoying The Expanse books as much as I did before. We'll see if that holds as we go along. It might just be that I'm really still in the early setup phase of this book, and once it really starts rolling I'll feel less jumpy. In the first book the setup stage was like one chapter. This one takes quite a bit longer.
Thursday
I'm now to the part of the book where they're traipsing around Ganymede and people keep getting shot (or presumably attacked by the protomolecule monster, but they don't know about that yet) and it's all pretty unpleasant. I'm looking forward to the part where they're back on the ship and at least shooting people from a distance.
Friday
OK, a day later, everybody - or well, Holden and Prax and the whole gang other than Alex - is still on Ganymede, but they're about to get off as soon as Alex gets there with the ship. And Bobbie and Avasarala have now hooked up (metaphorically speaking). So the pace is picking up, which is what I wanted. I don't know how much more reading I'll work in tonight, though. It's early-ish by my standards and I'm already sleepy.
Saturday
I was talking before about how I visualize characters. I just realized that I now hear what Bobbie says with TV-Bobbie's accent. And her hair, mostly! Before I saw TV-Bobbie, I was visualizing her wrong and I knew it - which is to say I was visualizing her as white, even though I knew intellectually she wasn't. It's still hard to tell the back of your brain that it's wrong. So thank goodness for TV-Bobbie, I guess.
Sunday
I finished Caliban's War just now and am starting Abaddon's Gate. All of these books are so good - there's not a dud among them - as I predicted, I whizzed through the second half of Caliban. That's pretty much the only criticism I can come up with for these books, is that there are a few sections like the beginning of Caliban that are slow to get going. (Well, ok, the very beginning is Bobbie's platoon getting killed, that isn't slow. It's after that that it lags.) But also they keep throwing all these new characters in and it takes you a while to get used to them - Bobbie & Prax & Avasarala in the last book, Bull and Clarissa in this one.
