What are you reading?

[RogerBW]

Borrowing this from pillbox over on the film review thread:

@pillbox

There are two categories of “good movies” in my mind. There’s “good cinema,” which represent an approach to consuming and appreciating movies based on their ability to leverage the medium to convey a story and characters in a way that would be impossible in another medium (such as literature or television or stage play). I don’t really put any time or effort into this sort of appreciation any more.

And then there’s “good flicks” which are movies that are not ‘good cinema’ but are enjoyable and I don’t feel as though I’ve wasted my time.

because I think it applies to books too. In particular, I’ve been reading the Hugo-nominated novels (though I’m not a voter this year) and Gideon the Ninth is my favourite of the four I’ve read… but it seems the least Hugo-worthy. It’s a good story told well, but it leans heavily on the structure of The Hunger Games and Divergent; it doesn’t bring anything innovative to the field, but it’s got more joy in it than any of the others.