I have found that social media - media in general, really - severely impacts my ability to read and write. Also lately, my ability to function as a reasonable human being, but I'm pretty sure that's because I've been going through a rough period of fighting against discouragement/depression and social media has a lot of SHOUTING about how BAD EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE IS (which seems maybe to be getting even more prevalent in the last few months?), and that just makes me even more exhausted and overwhelmed. But just the ... I don't know, urgency, I guess? ... of social media and regular media does make it really, really hard for me to focus on deeper things. Even if that deeper thing is a lighthearted MG novel.
Have you read Elizabeth Wein's other Ethiopia series? The one that intersects with Arthurian legend? I've only read the first three, and they are lovely.
I've not yet read Cuckoo Song. I finally got my hands on a copy of A Face Like Glass, and didn't love it as much as I expected to (I didn't hate it, either, but it never grabbed me like The Lost Conspiracy), and so I've been hesitant to try Cuckoo Song. Especially since I've heard the creepiness in it verges toward horror at points, and I Don't Do Horror.
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Date: 2015-08-06 01:14 pm (UTC)From:Have you read Elizabeth Wein's other Ethiopia series? The one that intersects with Arthurian legend? I've only read the first three, and they are lovely.
I've not yet read Cuckoo Song. I finally got my hands on a copy of A Face Like Glass, and didn't love it as much as I expected to (I didn't hate it, either, but it never grabbed me like The Lost Conspiracy), and so I've been hesitant to try Cuckoo Song. Especially since I've heard the creepiness in it verges toward horror at points, and I Don't Do Horror.