Book completed

Edgedancer, by Brandon Sanderson. This novella directly follows a very minor storyline in Words of Radiance, telling us what happened next to a young female thief called Lift who has special powers and her own ideas about doing things. This time she heads to a nearby city for reasons that are initially unclear, but she does care about doing the right thing and has to figure out what that is. This is all grand fun, because Lift is extremely amusing, and I enjoyed it tremendously.

Currently reading

I'm told it's World Book Day in the UK and Ireland, although UNESCO established World Book Day for the rest of us on a date in April, and that the thing to do is to list what one is currently reading. Here's my list.

Fiction: Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke) and my current bedtime reread, The Grand Tour (Wrede and Stevermer). I also started The White Order (Modesitt's Recluce #8) but set it aside, presumably temporarily, and I'm rereading Long Boat Star Crossing (Ambrose) to provide copyedits. Later tonight I'll start Sanderson's Stormlight Archive #3, Oathbringer.

Non-fiction: As I write this I'm taking a break from reading/skimming through Appraisal Processes in Emotion, edited by Scherer and colleagues, but I certainly don't expect to read the whole thing. I'm also reading Midgley's The Solitary Self, Lakoff's The Political Mind (for an online book club), and a biography of Frantz Fanon that I've let go back to the library twice now, but I intend to keep going. I started rereading The Starship and the Canoe (Brower, about Freeman and George Dyson) back in December, but my copy is too musty for indoor reading. There are also several other non-fiction books for which I've read the first few pages but haven't gotten much further.