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I'm procrastinating like there is a prize to win. There is no prize to win of course, there never is and I really should know that by now. Alas, I have to hold a presentation in a day and I'm not even close to prepared. The only way to solve this, is to work on the damn presentation but all I want to do is read fiction and not academic papers.
Speaking of reading: I'm finally reading Leeward!
Leeward by Katie Daysh is a new-ish age of sail book, the first part of a trilogy, and it includes a gay romance.
My first impression after the first chapter was that the author truly understands in medias res. Katie Daysh throws you into the middle of the Battle of the Nile together with the main character, Captain Hiram Nightingale. She also shows immediately that Captain Nightingale is an emotional wreck. Chapter two only confirmed that impression for me and with every passing chapter the picture becomes clearer as to how and why this man is suffering. His life is a bit of a mess to say the least.
With every new ship in this books that has a name borrowed from Greco-Roman mythology or history and that's relevant for the plot somehow, I'm getting more and more suspicious. At this point it can't be an accident.
The Scylla is hunting the Ulysses.
There is a Spanish ship by the name of Fénix, which means Pheonix.
And there is a ship called the Actium, which hasn't done anything important yet, but I won't be surprised if it reappears at an important turning point.
I really like the writing style and the language, it's probably one of the best written books I've read recently. Does that say more about my current reading habit or the publishing industry? Who knows?
Anyway, that's it with my procrastinating for now.
Speaking of reading: I'm finally reading Leeward!
Leeward by Katie Daysh is a new-ish age of sail book, the first part of a trilogy, and it includes a gay romance.
My first impression after the first chapter was that the author truly understands in medias res. Katie Daysh throws you into the middle of the Battle of the Nile together with the main character, Captain Hiram Nightingale. She also shows immediately that Captain Nightingale is an emotional wreck. Chapter two only confirmed that impression for me and with every passing chapter the picture becomes clearer as to how and why this man is suffering. His life is a bit of a mess to say the least.
With every new ship in this books that has a name borrowed from Greco-Roman mythology or history and that's relevant for the plot somehow, I'm getting more and more suspicious. At this point it can't be an accident.
The Scylla is hunting the Ulysses.
There is a Spanish ship by the name of Fénix, which means Pheonix.
And there is a ship called the Actium, which hasn't done anything important yet, but I won't be surprised if it reappears at an important turning point.
I really like the writing style and the language, it's probably one of the best written books I've read recently. Does that say more about my current reading habit or the publishing industry? Who knows?
Anyway, that's it with my procrastinating for now.